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6 Foods to Avoid
There are many complicated diets around these days with long lists of foods to avoid. Many of them produce good results in terms of weight loss and other health outcomes. However, many people find ...
Low Fat or Low Carb Diets? Which is Best?
Previous research has shown that a range of factors such as genetics, insulin levels and the microbiome may influence how a particular diet affects an individual’s weight. Read the blog post on ...
Genetics and Diet
This month we are looking at the effects of genes on weight and other aspects of health and whether there are any diets or dietary rules that are worth following. There are many dietary regimes to ...
Night, Light and Weight
You may have heard about the benefits of sleeping in total darkness in order to get a good night’s sleep. But the benefits go beyond feeling rested on waking. Sleeping with a television or light ...
A Walk in the Park
Feeling better might be as easy as a walk in the park. Research has found that people who spend at least 120 minutes (2 hours) in nature per week are significantly more likely to report good health ...
Hug It Better
Non-Food Ways to Well Being This month’s blog posts will look at surprising ways you can improve your physical and mental health that don’t involve food or exercise. All are easy to implement ...
Are You Carb Adapted?
If you’ve read the blog posts on Personalised Nutrition and If the Drugs Don’t Work you’ll have gathered that we are not all the same and what works for some people may not work for others. ...
If the Drugs Don’t Work… Think Microbiome
If you’ve read the blog post on Personalised Nutrition you won’t be surprised to hear that not only do people metabolise food differently but we also have individualised responses to drugs. ...
Personalised Nutrition – One Size Does Not Fit All
Whilst we like to believe that food, exercise and medicines all have consistent and measurable effects on us it is becoming increasingly apparent that this is not the case. Research has shown that ...
The Dirty Dozen and The Clean Fifteen
If you've read the blog posts on Organic Food for Sustainability, Problems with Pesticides and Reasons to Go Organic you'll be keen to know how to get started with eating organically. If you can't ...