Can coffee shops fit into a healthy lifestyle?
Can coffee shops fit into a healthy lifestyle? Like many things, coffee shops are now an integral part of our lives and we wonder how we ever did without them. Where did we meet? How did we get our caffeine fix? Like many families, a visit to Costa, or Starbucks (or any of the others), […]
Do you want to know the truth about snacks?
Do you want to know the truth about snacks? In today’s weight obsessed world, “snacking” has definitely become an unhealthy pastime, hasn’t it? That’s a shame, because it’s a nice substantive word and has a real feel-good factor about it. The actual dictionary definition is “a small portion of food or drink or a light […]
Prof Bruce Griffin: It’s not what you eat, but when you do and don’t eat that matters
In this article, Prof Bruce Griffin explains the importance of regular meals and portion size on maintaining your optimum weight. Bruce Griffin Professor of Nutritional Metabolism, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Surrey, U.K. Obesity can be viewed as an inevitable consequence of human devolution, from early hunter-gatherers into a domesticated species with modern diet […]
Can alcohol ever fit into a healthy lifestyle? Read this to find out…
Can alcohol ever fit into a healthy lifestyle? In most diets and fitness regimes, the role of alcohol is often overlooked…probably because it’s assumed you just don’t drink it if you’re on a real health kick. However, to many people, drinking alcohol would not only be difficult to give up totally but is highly enjoyable…and […]
Don’t waste your time on a temporary diet – go for a permanent solution
Are YOU going to “go on a diet” in January? Ooops! We’ve fallen for the diet industry’s hype – again! They’ve managed to instil into us a general belief that the key to weight loss is obsessive calorie counting for a fixed period of time…leading to the oft-used expression “go on a diet”. So, for […]
Don’t say “I want to lose weight”; say “it’s time to change”
Don’t say “I want to lose weight”; say “it’s time to change” As we all try to digest Christmas and move towards the New Year, how many people do you think want to lose some weight in 2019? And how many people want to lose a bit and how many a lot? 10%….20%…80%? There’s no […]
High blood pressure? Walking may be a better cure than drugs.
High blood pressure? Walking may be a better cure than drugs. If you have high blood pressure, then you may well already be taking drugs to bring it down. Well, recent research has shown that walking, and other forms of exercise, may well be more of an effective cure – and it also has some […]
10 ways to save your waist line over Christmas
Over the next few weeks, most of us will over eat and drink…after all it’s the festive season right? There’s lots of TV ads showing very happy families sitting down at tables laden with glorious looking food and drink and we all start eating stuff which we wouldn’t normally even consider throughout the rest of […]
It’s getting darker and it’s getting colder – now’s the time to start!
With the nights drawing in and the colder weather upon us, it gets even harder to think about your weight and fitness – all we want to do is sit on the sofa at the end of a busy day and eat chocolate! But there’s no need to despair… Despite most of us thinking that […]
Do you WANT to be more active but just don’t have the time?
So much is said about the importance of being “active” as part of a healthy lifestyle but it’s often difficult to know exactly what that means. The Government’s recommendation is for adults to do 150 minutes of exercise per week in bouts of 10 minutes or more. If you do less than 30 mins per […]