Diets and Nutrition
Healthy eating will put you in the best of moods
How would you like to feel? Energised, happy, relaxed, healthy, focused or passionate? By eating the right kinds of foods and snacks you can induce these moods, and there’s a new website to help you do just that, without making it a big performance.
Juicy new weapons to fight childhood obesity
By 2010 there will be over 26 million obese and overweight children in Europe. This is the alarm bell sounded at Fruit Logistica 2008 by Margherita Caroli, President of the European Childhood Obesity Group. The promotion of fruit consumption is vital to counteract this trend, and Mr Fruitness represents a powerful ally to children in the fight against junk food.
Snacking scuppers Britain's bid to beat the bulge
Brits are suffering from a 5 o' clock snack attack and sabotaging their new year diet plans. According to new research Brits are consuming an additional 73,000 calories a year (that's one and a half dress sizes). This is an average 200 extra calories per day, clocking up a hefty 1 stone 5lb over the year - all because of one unnecessary snack a day.
Drugs or slimming groups? Solving the prescription dilemma
As shocking statistics show an eight-fold rise in the prescription of obesity drugs, in particular sibutramine and orlistat, Slimming World, the UK’s leading weight loss organisation, warns that PCTs and GPs are ignoring a treatment option that costs a third of the price and is more effective in the long term.
The death of fad diets
The Black Book of Hollywood Diet Secrets may be one of 2008’s hotly anticipated book releases, but it seems it’s our obsession with A-listers rather than their fad diets that is piquing our interest, as the majority of Brits’ diet and fitness plans for 2008 are long-term lifestyle changes rather than short-term fixes.
Tesco launches free online food & lifestyle tracker
Tesco launches the UK’s first free online food and lifestyle tracker... the interactive way to track what you eat. Designed to help customers adopt healthier eating habits, it allows them to track the amount of calories, carbohydrate, fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt they have eaten in a day by giving them access to over 12,000 individual items of food and drink from all major supermarkets and popular restaurant chains.
Nutritionist urges parents and kids to eat more fish
Seafish has enlisted Annabel Karmel, a UK leading author on children’s food and nutrition, as an ambassador for The SuperHumans campaign to help encourage parents and kids to eat more fish.
Wu your Valentine with a slimline new you
Those eager to snare a hot Valentine are reaching for the teapot in a bid to shift the extra pounds put on over the festive season. Wu 4u, the nation's leading distributor of Wu Long tea, is popular among A list celebs and body conscious people wanting to get trim in time for the most romantic day of the year.
Free healthy eating guides for moms-to-be
After the initial excitement of finding out that they are pregnant, the thoughts of every mum-to-be turn to the care and welfare of her unborn child. Diet plays a vital role in ensuring a healthy baby, which is why Spatone (an Iron rich water supplement) has teamed up with Midwife Maggie Evans to develop a free comprehensive advice guide to nutrition during pregnancy.
Skip the diet – Fill up to lose weight
As the our New Year’s resolutions wear off, many of us have already given up on the idea of combating the seasonal over-indulgence and excesses by detoxing, fasting or going on a strict diet. No need to despair according to obesity researchers at Slimming World, the secret to a long term healthy weight is to eat.
A low calorie treat from KitKat
After over indulging during Christmas most of us want to get back to a more varied, balanced diet as part of a healthy lifestyle. Although this may be tough, you don’t have to give up everything you love, just eat healthily.
Werther's Original launch new Sugar-Free sweets
Do you normally hate the ‘low fat’, ‘low carb’, or ‘low calorie’ versions of your favourite treats? And do you find they rarely taste like the real thing and would rather go without?
Dodging our fruity duty
Despite the majority of us showing an awareness of the 5 a day recommendation we are still doing our utmost to dodge our fruity duty. Over half of us only consume three portions of fruit or less per day according to a new survey.
Fruitness – Enjoy it!
Fruit has provided us with another formidable ally in the battle against seasonal illnesses. Mr Fruitness, the green superhero leading the “Fruitness enjoy it!”* campaign (fruitness.eu), is relying on kiwi fruits with their high concentration of vitamins C and E to carry the fight against common winter ailments.
Boots helps to end obsession with scales and dress sizes
New research from Boots says three quarters of us admit to feeling unhappy with our bodies and feel pressure to conform to unrealistic celebrity standards. To help end this obsession with scales and dress sizes, Boots is putting 1000 BMI machines in stores.