How Healthy are Nuts?
Nuts are considered healthy, but eating too many can lead to weight gain – is that true?
Evidence-Based Look at Diets & Nutrition
Category: Foods & Food Groups
Health Benefits of Kefir
If you follow the latest health fads, you won’t have missed the new kid on the block: kefir. Or is it new?…
Could Cheese Actually be Healthy?
Cheese is very high in fat, and considered by many of us to be a food item that’s best enjoyed a little…
Google trends of 2017
Deciphering which foods we were most interested in during 2017 was tricky, given the fruit-based lyrics of Drake appearing in different formations!…
Fruit & Veg give you a sexier glow!
New research published in the The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests that skin coloured from eating fruit and vegetables is more…
Love the aubergine!
Aubergines aren’t particularly popular in the Northern European diet, yet Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern people often include them in their meals. The beautiful…
Avocado
There’s nothing worse than buying an avocado, getting it home, cutting it up, only to find it’s so rubbery you could…
2016–International Year of Pulses
The 68th UN General Assembly declared 2016 the international year of pulses! So this is a great opportunity to explain what pulses…
Organic Meat & Milk: The Evidence
According to a new study, organic milk and meat contains around 50% more omega-3 fatty acids than non-organic. It is also richer…
Can mushrooms improve your vitamin D status?
Vitamin D has raised its profile recently, particularly as it has been discovered that many of us in the UK are lacking…
