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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.
A Review Of The Best Free Diet Plans
A collection of free diet plans to help you to lose weight and reach your fitness goals.
Can Greek-Style Yogurt Aid Weight Loss?
While there is evidence to support the idea that increasing protein intake can help you to manage appetite, making small changes to your diet with addressing the bigger picture is not going to make any real difference to your weight.
Dean Ornish Talks About Our Killer Diet
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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…
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!
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
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 /…