The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority have banned an advert for a probiotic yoghurt drink for misleading the public with its scientific claims. Are you wasting your money on products with no proven health benefits for yourself?
Food
Find out why we crave chocolate so much and which is the best type to eat to make the most of reported health benefits.
You probably have read the headlines this week ‘Eat less and live longer’. But how much should you believe as robust science and how much of the story is just sensationalising headlines?
After celebrities have been embarrassing vegetarians with their Meat Free Monday campaign, new health research praises a vegetarian diet.
Grazing though out the day means that you don’t suffer from cravings before lunch and around 3pm. Regularly grazing ensures that your blood sugar levels remain constant and you can have good energy levels all day long. Read about a new healthy eating by post service now in the UK and how you can try a box for free.
A healthy balanced diet containing fruit and vegetables should be sufficient to provide all the vitamins and minerals the body needs. But don’t think if you eat a poor diet you can just take a supplement. Here we report how, when combined with exercise, antioxidant supplements may actually do more harm than good.
Everyone knows the maths, increased food plus decreased activity equals increased weight gain and fat accumulation. But consuming the right types of fat for your body shape may affect your fat metabolism
After endurance exercise the ideal recovery food must contain both carbohydrate and protein to replenish energy stores and following muscle protein breakdown achieve net protein balance. But what’s the best fuel to use? A research article in this months Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition has a suggestion.
