Anna Nicolaou Nutrition

27/12/2025

This can affect your blood sugar and it is not food, nor stress.

You can eat all the right foods and still have unstable blood sugar. And no — it’s not stress. It's Light. Light affects us more than we realise and blood sugar is no exception. A recent human study (from University College London) found that brief exposure to red light (670 nm) before a glucose...

25/12/2025

How to have your Christmas cake and eat it.

The Christmas holiday period is an odd one. There is no other time of year in the western world when so many people collectively put their head in the sand and overindulge (“It’s the holidays… it doesn’t really matter”) And then collectively feel guilty about it in January. (Gym owners kno...

23/12/2025

Today I am optimistic for the world. Brought a bunch of kids to a VR sports park to celebrate my youngest turning 13 and what do I see at our party table? Instead of the usual: - sugar-water with food colouring and - a packaged cake that has so many preservatives it can survive the apocalypse, (if y...

23/12/2025

Have you ever felt guilty about eating something you think you shouldn't? What if you were wrong?

“I feel so relieved” Exact words of my 59 year old client with prediabetes after her first experience wearing a continuous glucose monitor. One argument against CGM use is that they can cause anxiety. In some cases, that can be true. CGMs give you new data. They show you things you were not seei...

09/12/2025

The one question that restaurant owners ask themselves and how it affects your health.

LinkedIn thinks I own a restaurant. This latest ad 👇 is encouraging me Not to change the frying oil "too early." 😳 Let’s think about that for a moment 🤔 > If this ad exists, it means that "To Change or Not To Change the oil?" is a question that restaurants regularly pose to themselves! > ...

07/12/2025

The little things that matter.

Today I am optimistic for the world. Brought a bunch of kids to a VR sports park to celebrate my youngest turning 13 and what do I see at our party table? Instead of the usual: - sugar-water with food colouring and - a packaged cake that has so many preservatives it can survive the apocalypse, (if y...

02/12/2025

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19/11/2025

This one meal for dinner creates some of the most phenomenal blood glucose spikes.

This one meal creates one of the longest overnight glucose spikes according to CGM data. Having worn a Continuous Glucose Monitor for several years and accompanied many people who do, there are two foods that constantly come up as the most challenging: >Bread >Rice What has them both? Indian food. (...

17/11/2025

Your restaurant menu will never mention this ingredient. But your body will pay the price.

Your restaurant menu will never mention this common ingredient. But your body will pay the price. This ad 👇 popped up in my feed. A brand urging professional chefs to switch from real butter to a “100% plant-based” alternative. It looks like butter, feels like butter, but promises to be more ...

14/11/2025

What I have learned from 18yrs of living with diabetes

Today is - here is what I have learned from 18 years of living with diabetes. Lesson 1. > NOBODY is coming to save you. Your health is up to you. Ask the questions, do the research. To a doctor you are just another patient, another 15’ appointment. There's only so much they can d...

12/11/2025

How to not be fooled by marketing

“It’s All Good! When life gives you Cécémel.” Well, let’s turn the packets around and see … 🟫 Regular Cécémel Ingredients: Partially skimmed milk (UHT), chocolate powder (sugar + cocoa 5.3%), sugar, stabilizer (carrageenan). ➡️ Sugars: 24g per 200 ml = around 🥄🥄🥄🥄...

10/11/2025

An drink full of taste, but no sugar.

During World War II, when citrus imports were cut off, the British government encouraged citizens to forage for this plant in the wild and turn it into syrup to protect children from scurvy. Weight for weight, it contains over 20 times more vitamin C than oranges. None other than the humble rosehip....