Holistic Approaches

04/06/2026

04/06/2026

Anne has a deceptively simple 5-step framework for moving through d...

04/06/2026

Eat breakfast, then lunch, and your blood sugar may barely climb. Skip breakfast, eat the same lunch, and it can climb a good deal higher. The thing that changed wasn't the food. It was the morning.

This comes from a small study in healthy adults. Each person was given an identical lunch on two days, once after breakfast and once after skipping it. The rise in blood glucose after the skipped-breakfast lunch was much larger, 3.2 versus 0.9 mmol/L on average. Same meal, same people. The only thing that differed was whether anything came before it. It is a small study, so it is best held as a signal rather than a settled rule.

The insulin response looked similar on both days, which hints that insulin is not what's driving this. The leading explanation is free fatty acids. Going without food for a few hours tends to raise them, and muscle that is running on fat appears to take up less glucose. So lunch arrives and more of that sugar may stay in circulation, because the tissue that would normally absorb it is busy burning fat instead. Eat breakfast and fatty acids stay lower, which seems to leave muscle readier to handle the incoming sugar.

There is a separate piece of evidence worth knowing, though it is in a different group. In people with type 2 diabetes, a dose of arginine before lunch cut the post-lunch glucose rise by about half. Arginine triggers insulin, but it is an amino acid, not a meal, no carbohydrate involved. That points to the effect being about the state the body is in beforehand rather than how the food is digested. Worth being clear that this was a diabetic population, separate from the healthy adults in the first study.

One honest limit. These are small, acute studies measured over single afternoons. Nobody has shown that eating breakfast every day lowers long-term blood sugar or disease risk through this mechanism, and the wider research on breakfast is genuinely mixed. Treat this as interesting physiology, not a diet rule.

What it does suggest is that a single meal's glucose response may not be fixed. The same lunch might do two different things in the same body depending on what came before it. The number on a food label or a glycemic index chart could be only part of the story, with the state you were already in making up the rest.

Jovanovic et al., Clinical Science, 2009 (healthy adults)
Jovanovic et al., Diabetes Care, 2009 (type 2 diabetes)
Wolever et al., Am J Clin Nutr, 1988

02/06/2026

Interested in learning about Energy Healing?

I'm delighted to be teaching Part One of The Healing Trust Healer Training Programme on the following dates:

19–20 August – Sherborne, Dorset
19–20 September – Hammersmith, London

To help you discover more about healing and the training programme, I'll also be running free Introduction to Healing workshops on Zoom throughout June, July, August and early September.

These sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about:

The Healing Trust Healer Training Programme
What energy healing involves
My approach and style of teaching
Whether the training is right for you

Find out more and reserve your place today:

You can find more details on www.holistic-approaches.com or www.thehealingtrust.org.uk

07/05/2026

Next week, I’ll be attending a practitioner training course in Imagework with Dina Glouberman, which I began in May 2025.

I’ll be returning with even more tools and insights to play with.

05/05/2026

It's Healing Awareness Week 2026 more events will be added each day.

https://healingawarenessweek.com/events-page/

13/04/2026

Choose the words and phrases that you use with care.

The greatest conversations we have are with ourselves. Have a wonderful week!

08/04/2026

So the other day I didn't listen to my inner voice saying 'don't do it'.

The result is that my website is down and waiting for the doctor/my lovely webmaster to fix it!

In the meantime to book your appointment you can contact me or use :
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