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The Unhealthiest Diets – Food That Will Kill
To help understand what a healthy diet is, it is sometimes useful to describe what an unhealthy diet is. We do not have to rely on speculation and guess work …
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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. We also have a growing selection of diet plans.
A Supermarket’s Guide To Healthy Eating
Supermarkets are coming under more pressure to promote healthy eating and provide customers with honest information on what is good and what is bad about the products on their shelves. …
Read MoreBCAA – Branch Chain Amino Acids – Fitness Nutrition
What Are BCAAs – Branch Chain Amino Acids? You should be familiar with the main macro nutrients – carbohydrates, proteins and fats – and that carbohydrate and protein are both …
Read More3 High Protein Meals A Day For Weight Loss
What is the best way to eat to lose weight? Grazing, that is snacking throughout the day, eating 6-8 micromeals everyday, having one big meal at breakfast and nothing else? …
Read MoreThe Potato Diet – 20 Potatoes A Day For Health and Fitness
Are potatoes unhealthy? They are high GI and are often fried, which makes them unhealthy. However, if cooked in a healthy way potatoes are very healthy. Chris Voight decided to …
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The Jamaican Weight Loss Diet
Today on Cook Yourself Thin (Channel 4) Gizzi Erskine, a food writer and weight loss expert, helped a Jamaican lady to change her cooking habits to aid weight loss. Just by …
Read MoreSpanish Study Shows That Mediterranean Diet Keeps People Slim
Spanish researchers have concluded that people who follow a Mediterranean diet are less likely to gain weight as they grow older. Researchers from the University of Las Palmas de Gran …
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Oolong Tea Shows Ability to Aid Fat Loss Through Lipid Excretion
Oolong tea has been used by Chinese people for many years to aid weight loss and control fat levels. In recent years it has been marketed more aggressively online by …
Read MoreMany Vegetarians At Risk of Dementia and Alzheimers
Latest studies have show that many vegetarians are not getting enough vitamin B12 in their diet. A lack of vitamin B12 can lead to poorer cognitive function including memory loss, …
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Does Victoria Beckham Drink Green Oolong Tea To Lose Weight?
Just read that Victoria Beckham attributes her slim figure to “Infusiam Tea” which is a type of green tea. In fact, it seems to be oolong tea. According to the …
Read MoreEating Purple Food May Boost Health
In recent years we have reported that colorful fruit and vegetables help to boost health. Also we have reported that purple potatoes and deep purple tomatoes (more on these below) contain an abundance of …
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The Bruce Lee Diet – Bruce Lee’s Diet and Nutrition
The original Bruce Lee Diet article, by Jon Wade Bruce Lee is famous for his devotion to martial arts and his great abilities in this field. He was not only …
Read MoreThe Natural Way Lose Weight
What is the natural way to lose weight? If you want to lose weight and get a flat stomach then it may best best for you to follow a natural …
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Bodybuilding Diets of Pro Bodybuilders Jay Cutler, Branch Warren and Victor Martinez
Three top bodybuilders share their nutrition and diet: Jay Cutler (3 times Mr Olympia winner), Branch Warren (came 2nd in the 2009 Mr Olympia) and Victor Martinez.
Read MoreWhat is a Christian Diet and Exercise Regime?
A few readers have raised an interesting question: Is it Christian to dedicate so much time to yourself in terms of exercises and weight loss? Some people, especially more devout …
Read MoreWorthenshaws Healthy Ice Cream Company – As Seen on Dragons Den
In July 2010 Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne bought in to Kirsty Henshaw’s healthy “ice cream” company. It is not actually ice cream but a frozen dessert which is much …
Read MoreThe Hidden Cookie Diet
This is not really a diet, just a simple way to trick yourself into eating less. All you have to do on this diet is hide your cookies from yourself, …
Read MoreShould Junk Food be Controlled Like Tobacco and Alcohol?
One thing is clear to all of us now, and that is a junk food diet is one of the causes of obesity. Being overweight or obese is quickly becoming …
Read MoreFat Burning Spices – Cayenne and Cinnamon
Many people look for easy ways to lose weight quicker. Adding some spice to your diet seems to be one simple solution that can help. Spice can help you to …
Read MoreEurope Votes for the GDA Food Labelling System
The European Parliament today voted on front of pack food labelling. The vote is intended to introduce a European-wide food labelling system for processed foods (ready meals, sandwiches, pies etc). …
Read MoreYelena Isinbayeva’s Olympic Training Diet
Yelena Isinbayeva is a Russian pole vaulting champion who won Olympic gold in 2004 an 2008 and is a strong contender for gold in 2012. She shared her diet on …
Read More1 in 6 Men are on a Diet Without Knowing It!
An interesting piece of news appeared today. 1 in 6 women secretly put their partners on a “diet” in an attempt to help the lose weight. These diets often involve …
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Do We Need 5 A Day? A Fresh Look at Fruit and Veg
Once again popular media is causing confusion. The latest news is that eating 5 pieces of fresh fruit and vegetables a day does not reduce the chances of developing cancer.
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The Sugar Conspiracy – Becca Wilcox on Who Made Me Fat?
In March 2010 the BBC’s Becca Wilcox asked “Why are we so fat, and is it really all our own stupid fault?” Becca Wilcox set out to find the real …
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The New Atkins Diet Almost Guarantees Weight Loss
Dr. Atkins must be the only man to have ever created a diet system that gains and then loses favor so frequently. Once again, Atkins is good. The high protein and low sugar approach to eating is reportedly helping people lose weight again and the press are in favor of it at the moment.
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Doctor’s Told To Improve Nutrition Knowledge
Dr Penny Neild, a gastroenterologist who works at London’s St George’s Hospital, has spoken out about the poor state of nutrition training in the medical community. It is argued that …
Read MoreWarning Over High Salt Content In Soup
Studies have shown that there is still too much salt in many brands of soup. Although salt levels in recent years has improved due to health campaigns by various organizations, …
Read MoreHealth Benefits of Low Carb Diets
In early 2010 recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that eating a low carbohydrate diet is more effective at reducing blood pressure than taking weight-loss pills such as …
Read MoreThe Ultimate List of Fat Burning Foods
by Samantha Richards, Personal Trainer and Nutritionist. My overall goal is to give you recipes for healthy food that is both delicious and beneficial to your overall health, preferably for …
Read MoreUnderstanding Potatoes, "White Foods" and the Glycemic Index
It is important to have a good understanding of carbohydrates, especially “white foods” and potatoes. Many heath and fitness professionals encourage people to avoid potatoes because they are high on the glycemic index. Some of these professionals even tell people to “avoid any and all white carbohydrates”.
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