Sheila Downes Nutrition

05/06/2026

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29/11/2025

Winter skies 🌛✨✨✨

08/06/2025

My new favourite place to walk

26/05/2025

Nice to get these free samples from Pure and Natural Supplies 😃 Thank you 🤩 looking forward to trying 🙌🏻 some of my favourite supplement companies here .naturalproducts .nootropics

24/08/2024

Well Worth the Queue 😋 .bakery

21/03/2024

I love Kimchi and thought I need to make sure I eat more of this stuff for all its super health benefits. I got stuck on trying to think how I would incorporate it into my diet regularly.

Now, I’ve gotten into the habit of taking the jar out of the fridge and having a couple of teaspoons while I’m making dinner 😃 should have done this ages ago! Anyway… this is a great habit to begin for many reasons.

🥬 Fermented foods are a great source of probiotics which are excellent for your gut.

🥬When your gut is in good shape, this benefits your immune system (70% of your immune system is in your gut).

🥬Kimchi contains compounds that can help reduce inflammation. (Inflammation is at the heart of every disease)

🥬If you find it hard not to pick while you’re preparing food, this habit could be a game changer for weight loss goals as kimchi is low in calories but nutrient dense 💪🏻

So.. don’t wait as long as I did to eat more of this! Look for kimchi by in your local supermarket.

16/09/2023

Home from sunny Mallorca to a wet and rainy day in Dublin. In my teens and twenties, I wanted eternal sunshine, but now, I love the change of seasons. I will miss eating delicious seafood on the beach but I’m equally looking forward to soups and stews and all the lovely food that come with Autumn 🍂

Books like these beautiful almanacs I buy each year have helped me embrace the longer nights. These books are full of interesting seasonal information and delicious recipes. Lia has a beautiful way of helping us look at the year as it unfolds. Each year a different theme is chosen for the almanacs, and you learn so much about what is going on around you, in the hedgerows or in the heavens throughout the year.

So if you’re mourning the end of summer, I recommend these beautiful books to keep you inspired and help you welcome in the colder months and what each season has to offer ✨

17/06/2022

CUT UP YOUR PLANTS FOR BETTER NUTRITION

It seems that chopping up your fruits & vegetables can actually make them more 'nutritious'. We've long heard this tidbit about broccoli and sulforaphane, but now we see that several types of plant foods respond to the mechanical stress of cutting, dicing, and even shredding by making more phenolic compounds, and thereby, increasing their antioxidant activity.

In fact, the more stress, the better, or at least in carrots, where slicing led to a increase (1.67 times) in phenolic content, but shredding resulted in more than a 5-time increase!