Diet and Nutrition

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. We also have a growing selection of diet plans.

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Dean Ornish Talks About Our Killer Diet

Evolution of Man - Dean Ornish

This short TED talk from February 2006 discusses the role of diet an health. Obesity is not just about the way you look, it has serious health problems. Dr. Dean Ornish, author of Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease, which gave…

Anti Hay Fever Diet

It is that time of year again when pollen ruins an otherwise lovely day. More and more people are starting to suffer from hay fever. Each year more children develop the condition and also adults, that never had hay fever…

Protein Timing For Maximum Muscle Growth And Repair

Woman drinking protein shake

If you fail to consume enough protein at the right times throughout the day then you may make smaller strength and performance gains than expected.

Sherri Shepherd’s Plan D Diet for Diabetes

The Plan D diet is a simple weight loss program which is basically a low GI diet plan which helps you to manage your blood glucose levels

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 food that is apparently really bad for us) may actually aid…

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 to help manage your condition. Type 2 Diabetes is degenerative, which…

The Raspberry Ketone Diet

Raspberry ketone 4-4-Hydroxyphenyl butan-2-one

There is currently no medical evidence that raspberry ketone works as a weight loss aid. In addition to the lack of any scientific evidence, little is known about the possible long-term side-effects of taking raspberry ketone.

The Beyond Diet – A Review

Isabel looking great!

The Beyond diet is a diet system created by Isabel De Los Rios that changes the balance of macros we eat to help lose weight.

Health News – Fruit For Health But Not For Weight Loss!

Citrus fruits - oranges, lemons and limes

It has been another interesting week in health. Fruit has been in the news twice, firstly because it can lead to weight gain, and secondly because eating fruit can reduce risk of breast cancer. Don’t Add Healthy Food To Your…

12 Common Dieting Mistakes

A woman eating a sub sandwich

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 all respond to different combinations of foods and workouts to attain…

Why Vegan Athletes Keep Winning

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 write something more positive about veganism and fitness. There are many…

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 the paleo, stone-age and primal diet systems all aid weight loss…

Some Healthy Facts About Dietary Fat

Health food choices that contain 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 kitchens, mothers would bake cookies, cakes, pies and flans on an almost daily basis for their families. Then the western world was suddenly gripped by rising reports of heart disease in the 1970’s and fat was blamed. But was that fair?

40 Years of Atkins – Atkins Diet Review

The question that many people ask today is this: Is the Atkins Diet safe? The Atkins’ Diet Revolution was first published in 1972, 40 years ago. Ever since then, the dieting community have been split into two groups – those that…

8 foods worse than white bread

We know that eating white bread is bad, the sugar in the bread is digested quickly and literally goes straight to our hips! However, this week Shape Magazine have published Carbs Without Cause: 8 Foods Worse than White Bread. This provides…

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, ideas, misconceptions and bad advice cannot be so easily controlled. Some diet…

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 effective advertising tricks to sell tea to vulnerable people on the…

A Guide To Workout Nutrition

Fitness instructor holding a protein shake

If you are exercising intensively you need to start thinking about nutrition. Whether you are trying to lose fat or build more muscle, or both, then getting your diet right is vital for success.

The Paleo Diet – Weight Loss Diet By Paleolithic Man!

The paleolithic diet, also known as the Stone Age Diet or Caveman Diet, is simply a return to eating the foods that humans would have consumed before agriculture and farming became common. Also, it emphasizes eating raw foods, as cooking…

The Red Meat Debate – Is It Safe?

Red meat has the potential to be very important in our diet. It is a rich source of protein, which is essential for athletic development (muscles) and also contains iron, zinc and phosphorus, plus vitamins B12, thiamin and roboflavin. Red…

Diet and Heart Health

Over the years much research has been carried out to examine the relationship between diet and heart disease. Many studies lead to the idea of “superfoods” to prevent heart disease developing, however, these reports are generally misleading. Some studies have…

The Atkins Nutritional Approach

The Atkins Diet is often misunderstood. It is still a great way to lose weight and does not have to be an unhealthy diet.

Sugar, Carbohydrates and Your Health

Sugar still remains as one of the most misunderstood part of our diet. On one hand it provides vital energy for healthy body function and fuels the brain, on the other hand it often contributes to calorie excesses and weight…

How Super are Superfoods?

The media love reporting news of superfood discoveries, but is there really any such thing as a superfood? The fact is, often the foods are not all that super at all. Sensationalist reporting just makes them seem super.

The HCG Weight Loss Diet Scam – The New Snake Oil?

The HCG diet is another diet that follows in a growing trend of diets weight loss designed to help manage blood sugar levels and appetite. HCG stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin. You can see why most people prefer the call…

Fast Weight Loss With Jon Benson – Caveman Diet and HIT

Jon Benson is a personal fitness trainer. He developed a diet plan and a weight training system to help you lose weight and get strong. The two systems are complete solutions in there own right, but if you combine the…

Not Another Forking Fad Diet!

A fork next to some salad

It seems that the nation that gave us the first well structured diet plan for some time, the Dukan Diet, has now opted for a slightly more faddish diet craze. In France they call it Le Forking or Le régime…

The DASH Diet Plan

DASH diet

There have been various studies looking at different dieting methods in recent decades. One of the most important ones simply determined that all diets work equally well in the long-term when people stick to them. For example, low carb /…

The New Food Pyramid – USDA Reviews Its Healthy Eating Guidelines

Since 1992 the USDA has used the Food Pyramid to provide Americans with a guide to healthy eating. Now it is updating its message and using a new tool to help American to eat well and live healthier lives.

Glut Recipes To Shrink Your Gut

Growing your own vegetable can be fun and also provide you with a healthy supply of vegetables and fruits. However, sometimes you get a glut and it is hard to know how to use it all before it goes off. Here are some healthy glut soup recipes that will also help you to lose weight.

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