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Posted on 17 February 2013
I am a big advocate of using the glycemic index (GI) of foods as a measure of which foods to eat more of and which foods to limit. The GI, an index from 0 – 100, is a pretty reliable way to...
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Posted on 7 January 2013
OK, how bored are you of the relentless weight-loss adverts that are running at the moment? I certainly am and I feel it is shamefully predictable of me to be adding to the new year weight...
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Posted on 30 December 2012
Within our digestive system there lives 10 times the amount of tiny organisms than we have cells in the body – see graphic, on average a whacking great 2 kilos of them!? Science is still di...
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Posted on 16 August 2012
I have been aware of the hormone Leptin being part of our appetite control mechanism for some time, but having done some more in depth research in to it, Leptin appears to tie together vari...
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Posted on 5 June 2012
Our understanding of the science of things is constantly evolving and this is most certainly true when it comes to the science of nutrition. There was a time when we in the health world wer...
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Posted on 29 April 2012
There is so much confusion about fats and oils. It’s the one subject I have blogged about most often largely because I find I am so frequently being asked to explain the pros and cons of va...
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Posted on 9 April 2012
I have been working with a lot of women lately who are struggling with menopausal symptoms.? Menopause is defined as the point at which menstruation has ceased for 12 consecutive months. Ho...
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Posted on 25 March 2012
I was watching Hugh FW at River Cottage and he was making some fabulously simple and tasty suppers with leftovers from Sunday lunch. I suddenly became acutely aware of how very hungry I was...
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Posted on 5 March 2012
For the last 8 days I have been plugged in to an intense series of lectures for the Paleo Summit. Paleo, short for Paleolithic refers to a big new craze in the diet world – the Paleo diet...
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