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  • 10 Evidence Based Diet Tactics

    10 Evidence Based Diet Tactics

    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…

  • Why This Book

    Why This Book

    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…

  • Antioxidants – do they work

    Antioxidants – do they work

    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…

  • Vitamins – Fact or Fiction

    Vitamins – Fact or Fiction

    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…

  • Six Steps to Health

    Six Steps to Health

    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…

  • 1% Weight Increase each year

    1% Weight Increase each year

    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…

  • 8 Glasses of Water?

    8 Glasses of Water?

    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…