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.…
Evidence-Based Look at Diets & Nutrition
Category: Nutrition & Physical Health
Poor sleep and over-eating
Poor sleep could result in over-eating calories according to a study conducted at King’s College London. Researchers at the university recently published…
Turkey and greens to beat cancer
Swiss researchers have recently discovered that an amino acid (a component of protein) called L-arginine, when consumed through diet, may have the…
Beat your cancer odds
There are over 200 different types of cancer, which reflects the different types of cells we have in our bodies. Cancer is…
Bowel Cancer and Diet
April is bowel cancer awareness month, so we’re taking this opportunity to talk about bowel cancer and look at how we can…
Eat to sleep
Many of us experience periods where we struggle to get any decent sleep. For some of us, this can be a troublesome…
Eat your way to a healthy heart
Coronary heart disease is a major cause of disability and death in the UK, and is among some of the diseases that…
Poor sleep? Look at your diet
A new study in the US has shown that a diet low in dietary fibre, high in saturated fat and sugar is…
Eat more fibre to reduce diabetes risk
Type 2 diabetes is becoming one of the fastest growing diseases in the industrialised world, largely due to our lifestyles. Diabetes is…
Our gutsy little friends
Our gut carries up to 2kg of microbes, within which there is over a thousand different species and understanding their role in…
