Lucy Gillan Nutrition

Lucy Gillan Nutrition Registered Dietitian

🦴 You need to start taking vitamin D. Without enough vitamin D our body absorbs far less calcium from the foods we eat -...
05/10/2025

🦴 You need to start taking vitamin D. Without enough vitamin D our body absorbs far less calcium from the foods we eat - this has a big impact on our health and health outcomes. But when it comes to supplementing…

What dose do you need? General population in the UK & Ireland need 10mg.

Spray or tablet? Both effective but spray bypasses the digestive tract which is beneficial for those with GI issues.

Is it really that important? Yes. It is. Your skeleton is important, it literally holds you together! So give it the nutrients it needs 🦴

🍌 Ripe vs Un-ripe 🍌🟢🍌 Green bananas are high in pectin, a type of starch occurring naturally in fruits and vegetables gi...
28/06/2021

🍌 Ripe vs Un-ripe 🍌

🟢🍌 Green bananas are high in pectin, a type of starch occurring naturally in fruits and vegetables giving them their cell structure. This resistant starch can be difficult for the body to digest and will take longer to pass through the digestive tract - it bulks out the stool by binding substances in the intestine - due to this it has been used to control diarrhoea, particularly in small children (Rabbani et al. 2004)

🟡🍌Then you’ve got the ripe banana, they are high in soluble fibre with less resistant starch, they pass through the digestive tract a bit quicker and may be useful to help keep you regular - and who doesn’t want that 💩

Moral of the story: eat you fruit & veg for healthy bowels.

Cheers. Thanks. Bye 😘

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