by Leni Wood | Mar 21, 2024 | Nutrition for the Elderly
Nutrition and Hydration Week this year was a tasty, fun and colourful time across our Nellsar Homes. The awareness week is an international celebration of the importance of food and drink, which highlights the issue of dehydration and malnutrition which is still...
by Leni Wood | Sep 6, 2023 | Nutrition for the Elderly
Being a research-based practitioner, I am always on the lookout for new research to back up recommendations that I make to clients and care homes. I am also an advocate for increasing our intake of plant foods, as they can offer us ways to support our health and...
by Leni Wood | May 12, 2022 | Nutrition for the Elderly
It is currently Coeliac Awareness Month and working as a Nutritionist I have come across many people who aren’t very sure what coeliac disease is. I’ve even heard it called ‘celeriac disease’ at one time (the person and I had a good giggle about it when I...
by Leni Wood | Apr 27, 2022 | Nutrition for the Elderly
Our health and immunity depend largely on the health of our digestive system. 70% of our immune system lies within our digestive tract. Vital nutrients are delivered from our intestines into our bloodstream for use elsewhere in the body. If this system is compromised...
by Leni Wood | Apr 13, 2022 | Nutrition for the Elderly
Have you heard the saying ‘You are what you eat’? I tend to lean more towards ‘We are where we eat, how we eat, what we eat and how we digest, assimilate and eliminate’! Obtaining nutrition from food isn’t only about the food we choose to eat. It can also...
by Leni Wood | Apr 27, 2021 | Fibre, Nutrition for the Elderly, Vitamins
In my last blog I looked at lifestyle factors that can occur in later life which could impact on our nutritional needs as we age. This week I would like to take a deeper dive into key nutrients and vitamin and mineral deficiencies that are common in older people and...
