The Span Blog

Making the science of nutrition easy for everyone to live better, longer.

How Nutrition Affects Your Mental Health

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Dr. Shebani Sethi Dalai explains how a low carb diet restores and protects your mental health

Navneeta : "I realised I needed to do this for me"

Navneeta, Busy Mum who Restored Her Metabolic Health

Boost Brainpower with Intermittent Fasting

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Brain fog slowing you down? Improve mental clarity, focus and productivity with fasting.

I'm An Adult With ADHD, What's Right With Me?

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Identify adult ADHD and learn how to thrive in the workplace and at home.

Understand the nature of your eating habits

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Learn how culture has shaped your eating habits and how to reconcile your relationship with food.

Insulin-Resistant PCOS: More Common Than You Think

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Insulin-resistant PCOS can have long term health effects that go beyond fertility, but this can be naturally treated with the right lifestyle

The Power of Kindness for Mental Wellness

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A simple act of kindness has the power to support mental health and healthy habits during COVID-19.

PCOS and Weight

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Why weight management is used as a treatment for PCOS, and why it's so hard to do.

Blood Glucose Control is Important During COVID-19

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Understand what COVID-19 is, and what it means for someone with diabetes.

5 Foods to Boost Immunity During COVID-19

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One thing we can do it boost the immune system to help prevent COVID-19, or indeed, other viral infections.

How to Food Shop During COVID-19

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How to manage food scarcity during COVID-19. Learn how to shop and what to buy during isolation.

Avtar: The Ripple Effect of Family Support

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Learn more about Avtar's health journey, and how his family have supported and inspired each other.

Avtar Lost 3 Stone & No Longer Feels Hungry

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A conversation with Avtar, who believed he'd never conquer his insatiable appetite. Now, he's hungry for life and food is less important to him.

Are You Silently Suffering With IBS?

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Do you have IBS? Learn what IBS is and what the symptoms are. If you identify, we can help you with a natural treatment plan.

How to Fast Safely

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Is intermittent fasting safe? In this article, we explore common concerns about fasting, important considerations for fasting safely, and individuals who should not fast.

Meet the Experts of Low Carb & Intermittent Fasting

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What is a low carb diet and intermittent fasting, and are these dietary approaches actually good for you?

Stages of Intermittent Fasting

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What happens to your body when you begin intermittent fasting? This article discusses the main physiological changes that underpin associated health benefits of intermittent fasting.

Practical Guide to Intermittent Fasting

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Ever wondered how to kick start or improve your fasting game? This article shares 8 practical tips and trick to help you het the most out of your fasting regime.

What to Eat and Drink While Intermittent Fasting

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Despite what you may think, fasting is not about dehydration and starvation. There are certain drinks and food you can consume that mimic the fasted state, and allow you to reap the rewards.

9 Best Low-Carb Festive Sides & Trimmings

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It's here, the last piece to the ultimate Christmas feast — low-carb sides and trimmings to complete your meal.

Do I Have PCOS?

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Make sense of your health ailments with a deep dive into the signs and symptoms of PCOS. Learn how it can be diagnosed, and don't wait till you want to get pregnant to treat your symptoms — manage it now with a low carb diet.

7 Best Low-Carb Festive Desserts & Petit Fours

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Here are our top 7 festive dessert recipes that wont make you feel like a pudding by the time January comes.

10 Best Low-Carb Festive Starters

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Here are our top ten low carb appetisers to kick off the festive feast!

Guide to Eating Out on Low Carb

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Don't let insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes, prediabetes or PCOS) stop you from eating out. With some guidance, you can enjoy low carb eating at a restaurant, at a friends house or on the go, just like everyone else, and without it derailing your health goals.

4 Best Low-Carb Festive Drinks

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Here are four, low-carb festive drinks you can raise a glass to!

What Causes PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome)

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PCOS is a complex condition caused by both genetic and lifestyle factors. This article explores what the science and evidence has to say about PCOS, and how it can be managed.

12 Best Low Carb Canapés

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Christmas and thanksgiving are on the horizon, which means nibbles and party food are in full swing. Rest assured, you can 100% have your cake and eat it. We've collated 12 delicious canapés for you to enjoy with drinks, and not a limp vol au vent in sight

You can reverse PCOS, naturally

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Through a low carbohydrate diet, PCOS symptoms like infertility, weight gain, excessive facial and body hair, and imbalanced hormones can be reversed.

The Calorie Myth

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Calories are not the only thing that dictate your weight. Food quality and macronutrients are more important. Learn how to boost your metabolism and lose weight, without calorie counting.

7 Steps to Crush Cravings

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Cravings can make dietary changes challenging and ultimately make or break adherence to diabetes reversal. This is understandable — carbohydrates are seductive and addictive. However, with a few tricks up your sleeve, you can resist the lure of sugar and be liberated from the grips of cravings, forever.

15 Ways to Eat Affordably

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Diabetes reversal is accessible to everyone, With a little guidance, it's possible to follow a low carb diet without it haemorrhaging your bank account. In this article, I will discuss some simple tricks and tips, to help you get more bang for your buck.

Type Two Diabetes Can be Reversed, Spread the Word

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Type two diabetes can no longer be considered a progressive, chronic disease. Research now shows that type 2 diabetes can be pushed into remission, through diet and lifestyle changes

Guide to Blood Glucose Measurements

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A blood glucose measurement is a biomarker, used for diagnosing diabetes and monitoring blood glucose control. This guide will help you understand blood glucose measurements and so that you can evaluate your metabolic health and make necessary lifestyle changes to push diabetes into remission. 💪

Guide to Understanding HbA1c

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A HbA1c test is used to diagnose diabetes and monitor blood glucose control. This guide will help you understand HbA1c so that you can evaluate your metabolic health and make necessary lifestyle changes to push diabetes into remission. 💪

Guide to Dawn Phenomenon

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What is the dawn phenomenon and how to manage it.

Guide to Managing Hunger, while Intermittent Fasting

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Indeed, hunger is part of intermittent fasting, but most likely not as you apprehend it. Here is a guide to help you manage and understand hunger so that you can reach your fasting goals, comfortably.

How to Tailor Fasting to Your Lifestyle

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A guide to help you include fasting into your daily life. Recently it has gained a lot of support, quite simply because it works, and it’s easy.

Guide to Holidays with Low-Carb Living

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Taking holidays and eating low-carb doesn’t need to be stressful. Here’s a guide to help you along the way!

Guide to Electrolytes

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The importance of electrolytes should never be underestimated. These are essential minerals; magnesium, potassium, sodium, chloride, calcium, bicarbonate and phosphorus.‍

Guide to Sweeteners

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Kicking sugar out of your diet is a huge and positive step in optimising health and reversing diabetes. Perhaps you’re considering sweeteners to help wean you off the sugar rollercoaster, and support you through this health journey.

Guide to Alcohol

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“Can I still drink alcohol?” 🤔. This is one of our most popular questions. We hear you, and we understand your concern. Alcohol is so embedded in our culture and deeply associated with social occasions.

Troubleshooting Fat-Loss Stall

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Has your weight plateaued? Our bodies are continually adapting, and you may need to adjust your diet accordingly to kick-start weight loss. Here are our best tips and tricks!

7 Types of Intermittent Fasting, Explained

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Intermittent fasting can be used as little or as often to suit your needs. In essence, intermittent fasting is a pattern of fasting and eating over a defined time period ⏰Here’s a run-through of the most common types of intermittent fasting.

The Skinny on Fat - Part II

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A two part educational series, to conquer your fear of fat by learning how fat supports normal body functioning. I want to help you overcome ‘fat phobia’, so that you can get your health back on track, and even reverse diabetes 💪

The Skinny on Fat - Part I

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Your nutritional ketosis toolbox

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Are you ready to dive in and reap the benefits of nutritional ketosis?‍ I want to share nine tips and tricks to help make your health journey as effortless as possible, right from the start.

Food to lift your mood

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The secret key to make sustainable changes! Healthy eating means feeling satisfied and eating the right nutrients to make you feel good, promote health, and give you energy, which collectively supports a positive relationship with food.

How to eat a low carb diet

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How to change your diet, so you can retrain your metabolism and reap the benefits of nutritional ketosis. I will be focusing on macronutrients—major components of the diet which provide energy to power our bodies.

What is nutritional ketosis?

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Did you know that in order to survive, our cells need a constant supply of energy? I want to tell you the story behind this ability that we share with all mammals and how to benefit from it.

6 steps to take control of your diabetes

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Today, I’m describing the 6 steps of the journey that we’ve now experienced with hundreds of people.

Continuous care for remission of type 2 diabetes

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Your doctor doesn’t have much time to spend with you when it comes to chronic conditions and symptoms? Feeling lost? Overwhelmed with conflicting information? That’s where we come in.

We came together to put you in remission of type 2 diabetes

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You’ve heard about type 2 diabetes? This lifestyle-induced condition that develops during 20 years before the first symptoms?