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Schedule Appointment with Anna

Brain Food

Anna Betz

Contact Details

There is growing evidence that our lifestyle and what we eat affects our brain, our memory as well as how we feel.

The food that we eat provides fuel for our brain. Low quality fuel can make mood and memory worse and high quality fuel can make it better.

It’s never too late to make lifestyle changes and eat food that improve our mood and memory and enable us to experience more vitality.

We don’t claim that dietary and lifestyle changes are a cure or magic bullet for prevention or cure of problems related to brain health and/or memory.

Although we can’t guarantee that things will get better, we can give you some ideas about how making some changes to lifestyle and diet can help you and the person you are caring for.

What to expect

5 session programme

1: Starting well – breakfast, sleep, stress
2: Good and bad carbohydrates
3: Good and bad fats
4: Drinks and snacks
5: Vitamins, minerals and putting it all together

What the group involves
A 90 minute group for 5 sessions over 3 months.
8-12 members in a group
Each week we will focus on a different aspect of diet and sample different foods & beverages

Dates
Tuesday 11th Sept. 6:30 - 8:00pm
Tuesday 18th Sept. 6:30 - 8:00pm
Tuesday 25th Sept. 6:30 - 8:00pm
Tuesday 2nd Oct. 6:30 - 8:00pm
Tuesday 9th Oct 6:30 - 8:00pm

This course is free to any patients of BHWC

Your Feeback

Helpful to get an overview of the way everything is linked. Gives rational for making changes.

Meeting interesting people.

Some of the specific details have been of use not just for me but for friends and family who have been interested in what I was doing.

I loved this course. It opened my mind up to new ideas, try new things, be brave, be in control.

I gave up sugar, stopped drinking beer (most of the time), made the smoothies and ate lots of sardines.

My mood levelled as it was up and down and hard to live with.

My depression has lifted (for now, hopefully for a long time) and don’t know what to talk about during therapy (dynamic interpersonal therapy) on Wednesday morning because I am happier than I have been and more level headed.

I have benefited from the group, feel part of something bigger than me.

Anna is amazing. So knowledgeable, so kind and calm and always happy to help.

I would like to work with her one to one at some point. Maybe the next cycle of depression or sinusitis which can last for 3-4 months and lead to exhaustion and depression.

I will carry on with no sugar in the house, learn more about the house I live in but do not know.

I hope this course can reach as many people as possible as it really can transform lives.

Valuable introduction /outline of the course what we would be covering. Great ideas for food and healthy drinks and eating. Lovely to share food and experiences. Time given to us to talk and share problems/issues.

Brilliant the surgery put it on for us.

Use of herbs as healing options. Cycle of health brilliant. Love the meditation. Great information provided by email and support.

Follow up offered.

It was very important and valuable for me to learn that if we really listen to our bodies ourselves, we can take care of it well,

It all starts with listening to our bodies and our body is the first thing that we have which is very valuable.

During our sessions we always focus on this and I enjoy it a lot this approach. Also learning about and discussing how we can change our diet to a healthier one were valuable parts of the sessions. Doing these sessions with different age groups and people with various backgrounds also enrich the discussions.

What was valuable:

Sense of community
Hope , feeling that it is possible to cure my condition
Safe space
Eating lots and trying new things
Committing to my health for 6 weeks
Anna’s wealth of knowledge and experience

I really enjoyed attending this Brain Health programme as I am going to start to stop the bad habit of eating wrong food and look after all the healthy and valuable foods. And the other thing, the nice group and the nice teacher . I really learnt a lot from her.

Main action I have taken is eating in time with my body clock. To help produce the hormones that I need to be awake and to sleep.

The body is complex and connected and individual. It wants to find balance and harmony. All the new foods and drinks were delicious and I will drink more fresh herb tea

Anna is infectious . Her knowledge and experience with nutrition , the human body, health and healing and wellbeing poured from her every day of our journey.

She was very generous with her ability to connect with people , help to form a more conscious healing community.

I feel she has enabled all of us to know ourselves and our particular illnesses as well as our strength much better. Thank you to the wellbeing centre

I am slowly changing eating habits, moving to less processed foods more whole and organic foods.

Very much enjoyed listening to tutor who is extremely knowledgeable . New info on a variety of alternative and healthy eating . A lot of useful info on the body. Good clear info and good explanations for ease of understanding.

The variety of personalities made for a rounded and informative discussion.

I really appreciated the deep understanding and knowledge of why things work the way they do and why to do things or to take things.

I appreciate the patience of how Anna related to us.

I appreciated the samples of food and the connection between one thing and another.

The herb teas were great

I appreciated the personal attention.

I learned a lot about gut health and was introduced to all kinds of bad habits I have had. I have discovered some of my problems such a SIBO

Being a member of a group provided support and helped me believe that I can make serious changes in my diet.

Tasting all kinds of healthy food that Anna brought made me believe that healthy food can be delicious too! And that actually I have so many options.

I really loved how you were listening to our personal questions and answers in detail. You were really kind and caring . Thanks a lot

I would just like to say how much I enjoyed the course.

I am making changes slowly but everything is slow with ME.

To book with Anna Betz

07731 584358

anna@unleashourhealth.com

You can find out more at Anna's website https://www.unleashourhealth.com/ or profile page.