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10 tips for effective science based dieting are explained by the BBC documentary team in 2009. Michael Mosley is the test subject, and they visit researchers who have a range of tactics to diet effectively. Make sure you eat more protein; keep moving; eat more dairy product; understand food calories to make informed decisions; count calories; don’t skip meals; use smaller dinner plates; don’t go to buffets; eat soup, and swap higher energy calorie foods for equivalent tasty foods. Simple tactics that are scientifically proven to work.

Thousands of books. Billions of dollars. But society is continuing to get fatter, more un-healthy, and what to do about it stumped me. Personally. 10kg over my desired weight, but just within the healthy BMI range. At 24.9 I had another 0.1 before I was officially overweight. I was doing some exercise, restraining from too much food, too often.  But over the last 5 years was unable to make any difference at all to my weight, and I knew that skinny worms lived longer than fat ones.  That was the sum of my knowledge. In a study of…

Antioxidants are not necessarily vitamins, but some vitamins are antioxidants. Anti-oxidation vs. oxidation has been billed as a contest between good and evil. It takes place in within cells in organelles called mitochondria, where the body converts food to energy — a process that requires oxygen (oxidation). One consequence of oxidation is the generation of atomic scavengers called free radicals (evil). Free radicals can damage DNA, cell membranes, and the lining of arteries. Not surprisingly, they have been linked to ageing, cancer, and heart disease. Before reviewing the scientific evidence, I thought that antioxidants were a little over-hyped…

We have outsourced responsibility for our health. We don’t want to change the way we live despite documentation that lifestyle is one of the most powerful determinants of health. Vitamins are necessary to convert food into energy and when people don’t get enough vitamins, they suffer diseases. The question isn’t whether people need vitamins. They do. The questions are how much do they need, and do they get enough in foods? But I’m very sceptical of anyone who has a pill to cure the man-made epidemics of our time, and it turns out scientists know large quantities of…

These six things are all part of the 20% of things to give us 80% of our health. – Take-out fructose from your diet. – Take-out simple carbohydrates. Have more complex carbohydrates, fat and protein. – Take-out food for 2 days per week. (5:2 Diet) for a period of time if you want to loose weight fast. – Take-out a calorie counter for a short period. Become aware. – Take-out seed oils from your diet. – Take-out sitting down for more than 30 minutes at a time. Try to get some form of exercise. Review these things in…

If you are under 40 – most are overweight, but you still keep on slowly but surely over 40 – you become obese.. It is what you eat. Not your resolution for diets, exercise. Unless you make a change in food intake, you will put on about 1% of your weight each year. If you do make a change, you can lose that weight and the easiest way is cut out carbohydrates, starting with added sugar

Part of the “eight glasses of water per day” story is that we are all chronically dehydrated, and yet our bodies are not sensitive enough to correct this by making us thirsty. From a physiological point of view, this is rubbish. Drink water. Some. Do you need 8 x 8oz (1.9l) per day? No. Include tea and coffee in your consumption figures. But do not drink sweetened sugar beverages. (SSB). That means avoid gin and tonic, rum and coke or any alcohol with SSB’s. Change to Just do it on the rocks.