The food choices we make represent one of the biggest factors influencing our nutritional status. And our nutritional status is THE most important lifestyle factor affecting our general health and...
Understanding diabetes; pre-diabetes and insulin resistanceDiabetes is a condition where your blood glucose (blood sugar) is too high. There are two main types, type 1 and type 2. When you...
In a scramble to get the UK into better shape to cope with future pandemics, the government has launched it’s new Obesity Strategy. But do we really understand the cause...
Most of us are probably aware of the 5-A-Day health message introduced by the government well over a decade ago, encouraging us to eat at least 5 portions of fruit...
It’s official. We all love to snack.A Mintel report on the nation’s snacking habits published recently, suggests that 96% of us snack regularly. Perhaps sometimes we feel a little guilty...
Introducing adiponectin - the fat burning hormoneHormones often make us feel like a slave to our own biology. However, hormones are not all bad news. They are essentially chemical messengers...
Is your diet putting you at risk from covid-19?There are many fascinating theories emerging around covid-19 and its seemingly selective nature in terms of severity of response. Naturally, as a...