Anna Nicolaou Nutrition

05/03/2026

Does World Obesity Day help those living with obesity?

Is World Obesity Day a good idea? March 4th was World Obesity Day and my LI feed was flooded with the following narrative: > Obesity is a huge global problem - almost half the world’s population is overweight or obese > Obesity is not a matter of personal choice, it is a systems failure. > Obesity...

02/03/2026

What an old hospital can teach us all.

What would it be like to stay in a hospital 100 years ago? I was pondering this as I walked through Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona - the last stop on our Spain trip last week. This Art Nouveau masterpiece provideds a lot of food for thought to anyone interested in health and healthcare. On the on...

19/02/2026

What to do when a doctor's appointment leads to frustration and disappointment.

Have you ever left a doctor's office … frustrated and disappointed? With more worry and questions than you came with? In my practice, this frustration most often shows up around blood sugar and metabolic health follow ups. Just yesterday a client said: “I like how you explain things, my doctor n...

16/02/2026

How your normal blood test can hide the truth about your blood sugar.

Would you run your company based on a single financial statement from 12 months ago? Yet, you are doing exactly that with your health. When running a company, you look at real-time cash flow to spot the leaks before they become a crisis. But when it comes to your most valuable asset, your health, yo...

06/02/2026

Pre/diabetes is not one disease. It's 4. Knowing "your subtype" can avoid you unnecessary troubles.

(Pre)diabetes is not one disease - it is at least four. If you don't know which sub-type you have, you may be "barking up the wrong tree." It usually goes like this: > You do a blood test and your blood sugar comes back a little high > Your doctor gives you the classic: "Eat better and exercise" > Y...

04/02/2026

What I saw during my last hospital visit.

Wandering around between appointments at one of the major Brussels hospitals and what do I see? In a main area within 10m of each other 👇 Is that what they mean when they say the "food industry is funding the drug industry"?🤔... (On the bright side, at least the banned smoking within 10m of th...

30/01/2026

Fun and games this morning...(And what high blood sugar can do to your stomach)

Some radioactive eggs for breakfast anyone? I don't think I've had white bread in 20 years, (let alone having to eat it with rubber gloves because of its radioactive contents!), but here I am. Sitting in a hospital corridor writing this while waiting for the nurses to take “pictures” of my abdom...

10/01/2026

The new US food pyramid is upside down! What does that mean for you?

The new U.S. dietary guidelines have broken the internet. If you are a reasonable person trying to “eat healthy,” be prepared to be … confused. This is the classic “eggs are bad / eggs are good again” situation that makes people lose trust in nutrition science — except now it’s amplifi...

05/01/2026

My take on habit change when it comes to food choices.

I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. Not because change isn’t possible — but because that’s not how real change actually happens. Lasting change happens in learning curves. I didn’t always eat the way I do now. As a child I started my days with sugary cereal out of a box. By the ti...

27/12/2025

This can affect your blood sugar and it is not food, nor stress.

You can eat all the right foods and still have unstable blood sugar. And no — it’s not stress. It's Light. Light affects us more than we realise and blood sugar is no exception. A recent human study (from University College London) found that brief exposure to red light (670 nm) before a glucose...

25/12/2025

How to have your Christmas cake and eat it.

The Christmas holiday period is an odd one. There is no other time of year in the western world when so many people collectively put their head in the sand and overindulge (“It’s the holidays… it doesn’t really matter”) And then collectively feel guilty about it in January. (Gym owners kno...

23/12/2025

Today I am optimistic for the world. Brought a bunch of kids to a VR sports park to celebrate my youngest turning 13 and what do I see at our party table? Instead of the usual: - sugar-water with food colouring and - a packaged cake that has so many preservatives it can survive the apocalypse, (if y...