Diets and Nutrition
Look After Your Bones
Protecting your bones isn’t just about checking your calcium levels. There are many other factors that put you at risk of osteoporosis, including your vitamin D intake and exercise pattern. What is most important is that your overall lifestyle is a bone-friendly one.
Trans Fats – Otherwise Known As Hidden Killers
The mountain of recent research published on trans fats has demonstrated the severity of introducing trans fats into one’s diet as trans fats harm your body by increasing the risk of heart disease.
Changing Your Diet Can Prevent Diabetes
The epidemic of type 2 diabetes is growing, forcing an enormous burden on health care worldwide. The British Medical Journal (BMJ) stresses that the number of people with type 2 diabetes is estimated to double to 300 million by 2025.
Healthy & Hearty Valentines Meal Ideas
Nothing says “I love you” better than a meal you’ve cooked yourself, so celebrate Valentine’s Day by heading to the kitchen and cooking your loved one something special with Tenderstem broccoli – the quickest way to his or her heart.
Bring A Highlight To Your Day
If you think the New Year has to be all about giving up your sweet treats to lose those few extra pounds then you can definitely think again, thanks to Cadbury. Now you can literally have your cake and eat it, as the new Highlights Cake Bars give you all the great taste you’ve come to expect from the nation’s favourite chocolate but with lower fat and fewer calories!
Eat in Colour Campaign
Today a new three-year campaign is being launched to banish the brown and put much-needed colour back into the nation’s shopping baskets. While other campaigns seek to preach to the nation about what they should be doing, Eat in Colour is the first campaign clearly focused on helping people to find practical, quick and easy ways to achieve a healthier diet every day.
Combat Cravings And Sugar Swings
If Dr Gillian McKeith bursting onto your TV screen in a bid to rid people of their poor eating habits and excess weight is making you think twice about your diet and health, it's worth remembering she recommends Spirulina ‘to help control blood sugar swings and food cravings’ in her book The Ultimate Health Plan.
Food Allergy & Intolerance Week
As next week's Food Allergy and Intolerance Week highlights the plight of millions who suffer from food allergies and intolerances to wheat, dairy and eggs, two new and natural products based on enzyme formulations have become available in the UK.
Is Ancient Spice Key To Improving Modern Lifestyles?
Used for centuries and dating back to the ancient Egyptians where it was thought to be more precious than gold, modern science is only just beginning to discover the benefits of Cinnamon.
Food For The Brain Schools Campaign
On Friday 5th January 2007 an exclusive interview with nutritionist and psychologist Patrick Holford was broadcast on ITV's Tonight with Trevor McDonald to announce details of his latest initiative, the Food for the Brain Schools Campaign.
Company Promotes Heavier Drinking!
With the familiar sound bites of healthy living in 2007, one company is finding a genuinely effective way of influencing people's drinking habits. A brand new water dispenser service designed for home use has recently been launched by Love Water.
Easier Dieting With Low GI Shake
No-one doubts the benefits of a low Gi diet and now switching to low Gi has just got easier with the launch of the new X-Vite Low Gi Shake from diet specialists, BioVite. This revolutionary low Gi meal replacement has a glycaemic index of just 34, making it the lowest on the market and can help you lose up to 10lbs in just three weeks with no hunger pangs, sugar cravings or waning energy levels.
Double Standards Of Overweight Men
As women hit the January diet trail, men are today caught with their pants down, with egos as large as their waistbands. A no-holds-barred national survey shifts the spotlight to male attitudes to weight loss – and the weight of their partners – revealing serious double standards, and a few home truths.
Size Doesn't Matter When Women Shop
As women around the country hit the sales, a new survey by tescodiets.com reveals that nearly 40% of women have bought clothes they knew were too small, promising themselves they would slim into them - with 70% admitting that the items are still hanging in the wardrobe unworn.
Light Diet Could Be Key To Obesity Epidemic
New research demonstrating the link between serotonin levels and our ability to appreciate the salt and bitterness of food explains why carbohydrate cravings and weight gain are so closely associated with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). However, this finding also goes a long way towards explaining the mechanism that links the obesity epidemic with lifestyle changes over the last twenty years.