Chocolate-loved by us, loved by our gut bacteria!
Many of us love chocolate, but also many of us avoid it due to its caloric value – particularly if we’re desperately…
Evidence-Based Look at Diets & Nutrition
Category: Reviews
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?…
Is gluten really the enemy?
Wheat has become somewhat of an anti-food recently with many people following gluten-free diets believing that wheat causes them poor health. Gluten,…
Saturated fat and heart disease
Over recent years, there’s been a lot of debate regarding saturated fats and whether they really increase the risk of heart disease.…
Is chocolate good for you?
A new observational study published in the eminent journal, Heart, suggests that eating up to 100g every day is linked to a…
Flavonoids may help fight weight gain
A new observational study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) suggests that if you increase your intake of foods high in…
Sitting the new smoking
We’ve seen in the news recently how prolonged sitting is bad for our health. We’ve even seen how it’s been dubbed as…
Swapping brands may lead to over-eating
A collaboration between Liverpool and Bristol University found that people who swap and change their brands are more likely to over-consume than…
Wonder why you snack at night?
Are you a late-night fridge-raider and wonder why? Researchers at the Brigham Young University (US) believe it’s because some of us don’t…
Belly fat caused by meal skipping
A new animal study suggests that missing meals can set off metabolic changes that cause us to accumulate more fat around our…
