I was once asked by a patient recently… “Everything in nutrition is so confusing! Surely in this day and age, with all the modern technology we have, we could figure out something as simple as what to eat!” Frankly I have to agree with them. I tend to find that even amongst […]
Haven’t Got Long? Here’s what You Need to Know: Athletes and those really struggling with their weight share many of the same issues with their nutrition, exercise and lifestyle. Yet, because of their different lifestyle traits in my opinion, both groups can learn from each other. Adopting some of the athlete traits, such […]
Here’s a thought…if you asked random people in the street what their definition of a perfect diet is… …what do you think they’d reply with? …Paleo, Mediterranean-Style, Low Carb, Low Glycaemic Index, Low Fat, High Fat, High Protein, Vegetarian, Vegan, Intermittent fasting…the list could probably go on for several pages. …but most likely […]
Haven’t got long? This is what you need to know: Dietary saturated fat has been established as a causative risk factor in the development of coronary heart disease for the past 50 years, a recent meta-analysis of all the scientific evidence to date by the University of Cambridge (part-funded by the British Heart Foundation) […]
It seems so simple. Go into any health food shop and you’ll find no end of juices, lotions, potions, foot pads, scrubs, pills and tablets for this perceived ‘necessary’ cure to our toxic lifestyles. Promising vitality, weight loss, relief from allergies, intolerances or other perceived ailments. Sadly detoxing for health is as much of […]
Ah, no sorry that’s “The Polo Diet”. The Paleo Diet has nothing to do with eating mints at all. No, Paleo eating is all about eating the foods that we did in the Palaeolithic era. The diet seems to exist in a few different varieties of strictness. Although I support any eating idea that […]
Yesterday it was coffee on the radio and today I just got off the phone to the Daily Mail about magnesium. The journalist I was talking to was simply astounded at just how diverse this micronutrient is in maintaining health. For the fourth most abundant mineral in the body, it doesn’t […]
In a huge study of half a million men and women, research in Biomed Central’s open access journal BMC Medicine demonstrates an association between processed meat and cardiovascular disease and cancer. One of the difficulties in measuring the effect of eating meat on health is the confounding effect of lifestyle on health. Often vegetarians have healthier lifestyles […]
