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These articles provide advice on healthy eating for sports, weight loss and general wellbeing. Diet is vital to health, so we explain what a healthy diet is and how it affects your weight.

Our Essential Guide To Healthy Eating

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Every day we are told to eat more healthily and take greater responsibility for our health. So what does this mean? What is a healthy diet? What should you...

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How To Use Protein Timing for Maximum Muscle Growth

How To Use Protein Timing for Maximum Muscle Growth

Proper protein timing is an important part of your health and fitness regime. If you fail to consume enough protein at the right times throughout the day then you...

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Sherri Shepherd’s Plan D Diet for Diabetes

Sherri Shepherd’s Plan D Diet for Diabetes

Sherri Shepherd is most famous for being a comedienne and actress. She suffered from “pre-diabetes” for many years and eventually developed Type 2 Diabetes in 2007. This prompted her to...

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Grain Bars Before Dinner Aid Weight Loss

Grain Bars Before Dinner Aid Weight Loss

New research published today may cause a bit of a stir in the nutrition and weight loss communities. It seems that eating grains (yes, the high carb, high energy...

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Are Chocolate Easter Eggs Healthy?

Are Chocolate Easter Eggs Healthy?

In 2010 German health scientists declared that chocolate is actually good for us, which means that chocolate Easter Eggs are not as unhealthy as many people think. Although chocolate...

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Diet For People With Type 2 Diabetes

If you have developed Type 2 Diabetes you have probably been informed by your doctor of the need to improve your diet and ideally start to take regular exercise...

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The Raspberry Ketone Diet

The Raspberry Ketone Diet

The Raspberry Ketone Diet is another relatively new fad diet based on a slither of science with a healthy dollop of marketing piled on top. So, what is it...

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The Beyond Diet – A Review

The Beyond Diet – A Review

The Beyond Diet is a new diet plan that was created by Isabel De Los Rios, who also created the Diet Solution Program. The key elements of the Beyond...

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Whey Protein and Amino Acid Supplements Help Reduce Fat

Whey Protein and Amino Acid Supplements Help Reduce Fat

A new piece of research has demonstrated that whey protein with amino acids may be more important for weight loss than we first realised. While whey protein is the...

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Common Dieting Mistakes

Common Dieting Mistakes

Losing weight and maintaining that weight loss, while also remaining fit and building muscle is often more of an art than a science. Everyone is different, and so we...

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Why Vegan Athletes Keep Winning

Brendan Brazier

A few years ago we covered a story about how one family followed a vegan diet with unfortunate consequences. To help rebalance this we felt it is time to...

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A Beautiful Tool For Health and Fitness

A Beautiful Tool For Health and Fitness

The Glycemic Index was described by Dr. Atkins as “A Beautiful Tool“. It is used by diabetics to help manage blood sugar levels and is also a key reason why...

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Some Healthy Facts About Dietary Fat

Some Healthy Facts About Dietary Fat

Dietary fat has a bad reputation. The human diet has contained rather a lot of fat for a long time. Lard, dripping and butter were once common place in...

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2 Day Diet For Weight Loss and Longer Life

2 Day Diet For Weight Loss and Longer Life

Michael Mosley presented in a recent BBC documentary the theory that a low-calorie diet extends life. He looked at 2 types of diet; CRON and ADF, and then discusses the...

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Dangerous Diets

Dangerous Diets

Every year we hear reports of people becoming ill from following extreme “diets”. In some rare cases the diets prove fatal. While many products are regulated and sometimes banned,...

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Does Green Tea Really Aid Weight Loss?

Does Green Tea Really Aid Weight Loss?

Recently there has been increased interest in “tea diets”. Sometimes referred to as Green Tea Diets, but more recently marketed as Wuyi Tea Diets, these so called “diets” use...

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