About MeHi everyone!My name is Aurora Raisbeck, I'm originally from Italy but now live in England with my husband Brian. This photo was taken at a wedding last April and that's why we're dressed up so smart!
Many people I meet here ask me how I can put up with the English weather having lived in Italy most of my life. Well, the answer is I love it here, the temperature is just right for me, not too cold in winter, not too hot in summer. I only wish it didn't rain quite as often, but you can't have everything! The next question people ask is, how about the food? Don't you miss Italian food? The truth is, I do, but the problem is I've become intolerant to wheat, tomatoes, olive oil, peppers and a few other things that are so common in Italian cuisine and that I love, so after all it's not a bad thing for me to be away from them!
How I became interested in NutritionThere's nothing like a set back in your life to make you stand back and reassess things.For me, it happened when I became ill with ME/CFS in 1992. Apart from the usual symptoms of ME (debilitating fatigue, muscle and joint pain, insomnia, brain fog, swollen glands, etc.) I also developed food intolerances that just added to the problem. With the help of a nutritionist in Italy I managed to find out which foods where causing me a problem and by avoiding them, I was able to have some relief. But this sparked an interest on the subject. If foods were responsible for some of my symptoms, could they also help me to get better? The answer wasn't as easy as I hoped. But I started then a journey that I'm still continuing and, boy, what a journey it's been!
In 2009 I qualified as a Diet and Nutrition Advisor as well as doing a course with the Open University on Nutrition and one on Human Biology, which I've just completed. I simply love finding out all I can on how the body works and especially how it reacts to the environment we live in, the choices we make as far as food is concerned and how these choices affect our health! All subjects that I'm discussing on this site. How This Website Was BornEspecially over the last 7 years, reading about Nutrition has been my favorite hobby, so much so that my husband teases me no end.Instead of reading a novel, as most people would do to relax, I have my nose stuck in Mental and Elemental Nutrients, for example, or the Encyclopaedia of Healing Foods! But there you are... there's no accounting for taste! Whenever I read these books and I found a particularly good gem, my immediate reaction was: How do I get people to know about this? I had no idea how I could reach people, UNTIL some friends told me about Site Build It! (SBI!) and how they used it to build their own website. I thought... wow, can I do it too? Now, to be able to create a website I always thought you needed to be a computer wizard, which I'm not, or pay somebody a lot of money to do it for you, which I don't have. So I had serious doubts that I could do it. But after reading experiences of people like me who were able to create successful websites ( you can read their stories too! ), I thought that perhaps I could do it as well. And here I am! And, you know what, you can do it too! Click on the image below and you can find out how.
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Contact MeAs it's still a fairly new website, I very much welcome any comment, questions, suggestions and even any constructive criticism that can help me make it better.So, feel free to contact me with your comments. I can guarantee you that I won't use your e-mail address for any other purpose but to reply to your comments. MY BLOG If you like to get involved in a good discussion you might want to check my new Blog where I comment on facts and events on the media that have caught my attention. I'd be thrilled to hear your comments and feel free to suggest new topics for discussion.
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