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09/05/2020 | 11 minutes

COVID lockdown: stress and carb addiction

We’ve probably all experienced the longing to turn to comfort foods during the COVID lockdown. Coronavirus lockdown has led to a bread making and home baking boom, with Google Trends showing a massive rise in interest in bread and baking. So what happens in your body when you eat carbohydrates (“carbs”) and how does this relate to stress?

Dr. Tony Willis
Clinical Director for Diabetes, NWL Health and Care Partnership

27/05/2020 | 8 minutes

Cooking Our Way to Staying Healthy

As we continue staying at home for long periods of time, it might feel tougher and tougher. We will have given up our social meet-ups, and eating-out habits but it’s a good time to rethink our weight loss goals.

Salma Mehar
Consultant Dietitian for the Northwest London Diabetes Transformation programme

27/05/2020 | 7 minutes

Get your daily dose

It is becoming increasingly well known that increasing physical activity has huge health benefits. This is certainly the case in the prevention and management of diabetes – we know that up to 58% of cases of type 2 diabetes can be reversed by making the appropriate lifestyle changes. So why isn’t everyone doing it?

Carron and Lewis Manning
Physiotherapists and Co-Founders of iPrescribe Exercise

27/05/2020 | 6 minutes

Empowering front line staff and people living with diabetes

Diabetes first became my big passion when I joined a doctor’s surgery as a practice nurse in the neighbourhood where I was living at the time. It didn’t take me long before I realised that the most important lessons about diabetes came from people living with diabetes and their families rather than from the textbooks I read.

Ruth Miller
Diabetes Nurse Consultant