Want to eat more to weigh less? This may sound too good to be true and it is not another fad diet claiming to make all your weight loss goals come true. The underutilised component of food allows you to eat more than a matchbox size amount and still reduce your waistline is fibre. Fibre…
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Skip the Plant-Based Milks and Pour a Glass of Cow’s Milk
Cow’s milk has its fair share of haters in the media, with trends to substitute the beverage with other milk substitutes like almond, coconut, or rice milk. These milk ‘wannabes’ have nothing on the potential of cow’s milk to help you maintain a healthy weight and support your overall health. So, what is so fantastic…
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Key Foods You Need for a Healthy Metabolism
Do you want to optimise your ability to use energy to maintain and achieve a healthy weight? Your thyroid is one major key player to this and is a small but significant butterflied shaped gland in the front of your neck just below your Adams apple. Roles which are given to your thyroid include: Controlling…
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Is Your Behaviour Sabotaging Your Goals?
If you open any magazine you will see the next fad diet or super food claiming to be the solution to an expanding waistline. However, the reason may not be due to the food at all but the way you are eating. Behaviour around food can be your best friend or your worst enemy and…
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Is Carb Cycling the Key to Weight Loss?
Carb cycling is not a new strategy but has been used mostly by elite endurance athletes to maximise performance. How it works is during days of competition or training athletes would include carbohydrate in their diet but on off days carbohydrate intake would drop substantially. The theory behind this is by increasing carbohydrates when you…
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Would You Like To Know The Perfect Diet For You?
Would you like to be able to tailor your nutrition to your individual needs based on the genes specific to you? Nutritional genomics could be the future of nutrition and mean there is no longer blanket recommendations for best nutrition. As humans 99.99% of our genes are identical, but it is the 0.01% that makes…
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Are You Aware of These Culprits of An Expanding Waistline?
The battle between carbohydrates and fats is an epic saga which seems to be never ending. Could the culprit be a combination of the two? One study suggests that the way your body is wired the combination of both a highly fatty and carbohydrate could send your body into an uncontrollable state of euphoria which…
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Do You Really Understand Spirulina
If you have entered the health food isle of the supermarket you have probably seen Spirulina capsules. If you are like most people you may make the link it could be valuable for your health, but knowledge stops at this point. So, what exactly is spirulina? Does it have any health benefits and is it…
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