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Why Celebrity Fad Diets Should be Avoided
Celebrities are often a source of inspiration for the public, especially for body image. Famous people are often portrayed at their best and the public wants to aspire to that. As a result, there is a fascination as to what diet they use to keep...
TV Advertising Increasing Junk Food Cravings in Teenagers
Today, obesity levels are on the increase with young people at risk. According to NHS data from 2016/17, 20% of children are already obese by ages 10 and 11. Even if children manage to remain a healthy weight, they are still vulnerable to dangerous...
M&S and Their Misguided Attempt to Sell Cauliflower Steak
In recent years, the amount of people taking on a vegetarian or vegan diet has increased. There has also been a rise in imaginative ways in which people can include vegetables in their food. This has included cauliflower ‘rice’ and courgette...
Why Detox Diets Should be Reconsidered
January is usually the month where the public are dealing with an aftermath of indulgence. Following the festive period, the diet industry is in full throttle. One of the most popular dieting trends that will appear at the beginning of the new year...
Mindful Eating for 2018
Mindful eating may sound like another diet fad, especially around the New Year. Really, it’s a way of changing eating habits and focusing on eating without distraction. Although it sounds simple it can have a significant impact. Practising mindful...
100 Calorie Snack Campaign to Tackle Children’s Health
Obesity is still a huge cause for concern and more alarmingly, childhood obesity needs to be tackled with some urgency. According to statistics from the NHS, one-fifth of primary school children aged 10-11 years are obese. Worryingly, 9.6% of...
Supermarkets Reveal Use of Antibiotics in Meat
Antibiotics are essential to modern medicine. They are possibly the most effective way of treating infections. Antibiotic treatment has immensely benefited human-kind and they continue to prevent, control and treat diseases and infections. However,...
Water Fasting Is the Newest Social Media Trend
Social media continues to play a large part in setting the latest trend for the public to try. This is very relevant when it comes to dieting. New fads appear so regularly, it is hard to know where the real information lies. The latest trend is...
Be Careful with Left-Overs This Christmas
Left-overs are an essential part of Christmas. The huge abundance of food that goes uneaten each year, finds its way into people’s fridges. It’s a consumer mindset that we can’t waste so much food. Christmas food is special, and it feels good...
Slimming World Diet Programme Encourages Food Anxiety
Slimming World boasts a significant popularity, with 900,000 members attending groups across the nation on a weekly basis. The website and magazines voice successful weight loss stories. Slimming World is certainly having an impact because the NHS...
Snacking Could be Making You Hungrier
It is generally viewed that a balanced, varied diet which includes three meals per day is said to keep the body fuelled and ourselves satisfied. If the feeling of hunger ever arises between meals, we will use snacking to help us through. However,...
Frankenfoods are Taking Over the World
A healthy, balanced diet is the basis of living well. Part of this includes keeping tasty but non-nutritional food to a minimum. Populations have become more reliant on what are known as Frankenfoods and they can be harmful to our health. Along with...
Don't Forget Your Vegan Guests This Christmas
If you oversee the Christmas dinner, the task ahead can appear overwhelming. Cooking for a group is daunting enough but on such a significant day seems to add the pressure. If one of your guests is a vegan, there’s no need to panic. The worst...
Let's Be Ethical This Christmas
Food is an essential part of Christmas. Large dinner tables that are full to the brim are normal. Instinctively, we associate a large amount of food with a proper Christmas celebration. Everything is bought in bulk so that there’s enough for...
How to Have Yourself a Healthy Little Christmas
When Christmas arrives, there is always some excitement. During December, we act differently to any other time of the year. Being healthy all of the time isn't that fun. As a result, we tend to throw much more caution to the wind because it’s the...
Can Diet Help Reduce and Prevent Alzheimer's?
Our brains change as we age. Factors that can influence this include: genetics, neuro transmitters (brain chemicals), hormones and life experiences. Developing Alzheimer's generally depends on age and family heritage. Unfortunately, there isn’t a...
What is Intermittent Fasting?
Intermittent Fasting (IF) is one of the top fitness trends around the world. It has been around for years, but seems to keep making a come-back. Unlike diets, it doesn’t target what you eat but rather when. It’s all about creating an eating...
Become healthier by eating a rainbow diet
Dr Libby Weaver an Australian nutritional biochemist suggests that eating colourful rainbow foods could be the key to a healthy and balanced diet. According to Dr Weaver plant based foods of differing colours (red, pink blue, purple, yellow,...