Experts

Dr. Chris Steele
GP, Resident Doctor - ITV's This Morning.

 

 

 

 

Fiona Hunter
Nutritionist and Food Writer
Fiona Hunter has over 20 years experience in the field of Nutrition. She has a degree in Nutrition and postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics from Kings College, University of London. She began her career as a dietitian working in the NHS, after which she joined Good Housekeeping Magazine. Now freelance she has regular columns in BBC Good Food, Health and Fitness and London Lite and has also written for The Daily Mail, The Times and The Telegraph, as well as appearing regularly on TV and radio. In 2003 Fiona won the Re-energise 'Health Professional of the Year' Nutrition Award.

 

Ian Marber, Dip ION MBANT,
Ian is one of the UK's leading nutritional therapists. As a principal consultant at The Food Doctor Clinic in Holland Park, and a frequent contributor to Britain's leading media, he is an acknowledged expert in his field. See www.thefooddoctor.com

 

Dr Rob Hicks
GP, author, and broadcaster
www.drrobhicks.co.uk

 

 

 

 

Melanie Flower
Melanie Flower is a practising Nutritional Therapist and runs a busy clinic in Central London. She helps people to overcome all kinds of health problems by creating a programme of foods and nutritional supplements to help a person's body to function as well as it possibly can. Melanie has been working with natural healthcare for 10 years. See www.natural-healthcare.net.

 

Jeannette Jackson
Scientist Jeannette Jackson is a nutritional biochemist with a specialist interest in neurophysiology and the impact of stress and pressure on mental and physical capabilities of staff. She works extensively throughout the UK and Europe as a leading authority on stress management and work-life balance issues, presenting seminars and workshops for managers, staff and training the trainers.

She brings expert knowledge to an area that is often challenging for organisations to identify and strategize. She also liaises with HR, Occupational Health and Training and Development departments to create congruence in the work-life balance arena. In addition her expertise in nutrition and diet ensure that following her presentations staff can enjoy supreme stamina, increased concentration and impeccable memory recall skills. Jeannette has a strong media profile and regularly appears as an expert on Sky News, and BBC News 24.

 

Lyndel Costain
Lyndel Costain is one of the best known registered dietitians in the UK. Her passion is to promote good food for overall wellbeing. Awarded Health Professional of the Year in 2001, and author of 5 books, she writes for magazines, broadcasts on radio and television (expert for BBC1 Diet Trials, UKTV Farm of Fussy Eaters), consults for weight management and food businesses, and trains other health professionals.

Lyndel Costain's tips for good digestive health:

• Eat regular balanced meals, starting with breakfast. Try not to miss meals.
• Sit down to eat, and take time to chew and really taste and savour your meals.
• Drink at least 6 - 8 glasses or cups of fluid daily, but limit caffeine-containing (tea, coffee, cola) and fizzy drinks, and enjoy more water.
• Include some whole grain breads and cereals, and at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables daily
• Make wise snack choices - try fruit, low fat yogurt, whole grain crackers and light soft cheese, vegetable soup, handful of dried fruit, nuts
  and seeds.
• Try a daily probiotic drink or yogurt that contains live 'friendly' bacteria.
• If you are overweight, combining healthy eating with regular physical activity to reach a healthier weight can help indigestion. Exercise is a great stress beater too.

 

Stephanie Zinser
Stephanie Zinser is a health and medical journalist, and author of "The Good Gut Guide". She has previously suffered from ulcerative colitis, and dedicates much of her time to raising awareness of gut problems.

Stephanie says:
"Show some TLC to your gut today and feed it the probiotics and nutrition it loves: it will love you back!"

 

Dr Julian Kenyon
Dr Julian Kenyon is currently medical director of the Dove Clinic for Integrated Medicine, London and Winchester. He is also the founder-chairman of the British Medical Acupuncture society in 1980 and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Complementary Medicine in Southampton and London where he worked for many years. He is also founder/president of the British Society for Integrated Medicine and is an established authority in the field of complementary treatment approaches for a wide range of medical conditions.
www.doveclinic.com

 

Professor Christine Norton
PhD MA RN

Professor of Gastrointestinal Nursing

Christine trained as a nurse at St George's Hospital in London after reading history at Cambridge University. She was one of the first continence nurse specialists in the UK and was the first Secretary of the Association for Continence Advice. Later she was founder and Director of the UK Continence Foundation.For the past ten years Christine has returned to clinical practice and has worked at St. Mark's Hospital the UK's leading colorectal hospital, where she heads a nurse-led service for patients with faecal incontinence and constipation.

She was awarded a PhD by London University in 2001 for a study of biofeedback for faecal incontinence. In 2005 she helped launch a new research and teaching venture, the Burdett Institute of Gastrointestinal Nursing with Christine as the first Director.

 

Dr Nick Read

Consultant gastroenterologist and psychotherapist, Medical Adviser to The Gut Trust.  Author.

Edited several books on IBS for doctors and written over 500 original research articles. Major monograph; Sick and Tired; Healing the Illnesses Doctors cannot Cure, was published in 2005.  Works in private practice helping people manage medically unexplained illnesses including eating disorders and IBS.