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Wellness

The best expert advice on how to live your optimum healthy life – sleep, stress, weight loss. Plus, your questions answered.

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Do Mushrooms Cause Gas? And How to Stop It If They Do

January 11, 2023June 24, 2022 by The Wellness Nerd

If you find that eating mushrooms leaves you bloated shortly afterwards, you’re not alone. Mushrooms are one of the many foods that can cause gas – but, if you’ve ever wondered why, and if there’s anything you can do to stop it, this is the post for you.

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Categories Nutrition, Wellness
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How Long Should You Meditate For? A Beginners Guide

September 13, 2022March 12, 2022 by The Wellness Nerd

There’s no doubt that meditation is beneficial – and, if you’ve already decided that you want to give it a try, but are now wondering ‘how long should I meditate for?’ we understand. We’ve also wondered how much meditation is required to get its benefits, so we decided to have a look at the science, …

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Categories How to Guides, Wellness
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What Is TRE? And Could it Fix Your Stress or Pain?

December 8, 2022October 24, 2021 by The Wellness Nerd

TRE is a set of physical exercises that, it’s claimed, allow you to shake away tensions, pain, anxiety and some other health worries and woes. But what is TRE, how does it work – and is it proven? We investigate.

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Categories Wellness, What the Heck Is?
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How to Create a Healthy Morning Routine (& 7 Mistakes Not to Make)

December 10, 2022August 5, 2021 by The Wellness Nerd

Mornings can be chaos – a flurry of clothes thrown around the room as you decide what to wear, toast scarfed down in gulps as you head out of the door – and coffee scarfed down even faster. Or, they can be times to reset your mind for the day, increase your nutrient intake, start …

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Categories How to Guides, Wellness Tags Motivation
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20 (Proven) Ways to Fall Asleep Faster. Try One Tonight to Improve Your Sleep.

December 17, 2022April 7, 2021 by The Wellness Nerd

We all get a bit of sleeplessness sometimes and it can take a few different forms; you might wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to drop off again, or you might wake earlier in the morning than is helpful – but, for many of us, poor sleep is characterised …

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Categories How to Guides, Wellness

41 (Non-Food) Rewards for Weight Loss That Will Make You Feel Amazing

January 11, 2023March 13, 2021 by The Wellness Nerd

Losing weight is a slow process, and it’s not always an easy one. One way to keep yourself motivated is to give yourself rewards for weight loss milestones that you reach along the way – but, there’s is a school of thought that says, it’s best if you don’t reward your weight loss success with …

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Categories How to Guides, Wellness Tags Weight Loss Tips
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Welcome to TWN

My name is Helen Foster. I’m an award-winning health journalist and author of 16 books on nutrition and health – and this is The Wellness Nerd.

My job here is to tackle some of the most common wellness worries and answer some of the most common wellness questions as usefully as possible. I love research, I love chatting to experts and I love finding advice people didn’t know could help them.

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