Food & Nutrition

An article published in Care Home  Catering, reporting on the presentations given at their latest Forum event focussing on patient-centred care, makes entertaining reading – not least because the somewhat…

There can be few of us that were not moved by the heroic feats of our UK sports people at the Olympics, and how strongly the core Olympic values of…

A key feature of Alzheimer’s disease is an excessive build-up of two culprit proteins in the brain; proteins called amyloid and tau. Amyloid makes sticky plaques in the brain; tau…

I’d like to star this week with a quote from the popular monologue in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, ‘All the world’s a stage’ that catalogues the seven ages…

In this week’s Nutrition blog, we are looking at some great new tools developed by a research team from Bournemouth University to help care staff provide good nutritional and hydration…

As new government advice on vitamin D is issued, this week’s nutrition article answers some of the questions you may have. Why is vitamin D important? Vitamin D regulates calcium…

In our nutrition blog this week we will be looking at why poor oral health may impact on the nutritional status of service users in care homes. The National Institute…

We clearly know we should avoid smoking and too much exposure to UV radiation from the sun because these can increase the risk of cancer. But perhaps something that we…