Overated and Outdated
Posted by Guy Edwards in Health Psychology, Nutrition & Lifestyle on 05. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
Stepping on the scales is over rated, outdated and “over weighted.” It does not matter how much you weigh, rather, it is your body composition ratio that matters. Taking body composition into consideration, by determining fat and muscle mass is a useful assessment for determining how healthy and in “shape” you really are.
Assessing your [...]
Get Your Fruit & Veg In
Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 28. Feb, 2010 | No Comments
One of the reasons high fruit and vegetable consumption is thought to reduce cardiovascular risk is because of a high concentration of flavonoids, in particular the flavonoid Quercetin. A study published in the British Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that Quercetin supplementation can reduce blood pressure and plasma oxidised LDL concentrations in overweight, high risk [...]
Splashing About in It
Posted by Guy Edwards in Exercise, Fitness and Strength Training, Nutrition & Lifestyle on 23. Feb, 2010 | No Comments
Many of us working in the nutritional field, believe maintaining hydration is important for peak wellbeing and health. Water makes up about two-thirds of the body, so should we be splashing about in the stuff all day or are the bottled water companies exaggerating claims to sell more water? Undoubtedly water has the potential to [...]
What If Some Types of Saturated Fat is Actually Good For Us!
Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 18. Feb, 2010 | No Comments
For decades, we have been told that saturated fat clogs arteries and causes heart disease. But there’s just one problem: No one’s ever proved it!
Suppose you were forced to live on a diet of red meat and whole milk. A diet that, all told, was at least 60 percent fat — about half of it saturated. [...]
Is Saturated Fat Really Bad?
Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 23. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
A really important aspect of good Health & Fitness blogging, in my opinion is to right what I see as ‘nutritional wrongs’, and there are many of them out there! So, if there’s a common perception that artificial sweeteners are better than sugar for weight loss, but there’s really no evidence for that, then I’m [...]
Why Organ Meats Are Nutritionally Superior?
Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 21. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
I get many questions on why Organ meats are nutritionally superior to muscle meats, so here is a simple explanation of why by Sally Fallon, an expert in the area.
Why Organ Meats?
Compared with muscle meats, organ meats are richer in just about every nutrient, [...]
Faddy Diets Cause problems ANY Time of Year
Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 18. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
This time of year, with resolutions being made thick and fast there is a tendency to go for the newest weight loss diet. Tempting but make sure you are pick the right one and taking the permanent approach.
The National Obesity Forum has called for campaigns to improve public awareness about the dangers of following fad [...]
Raw Chocolate can reduce blood pressure!
Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 14. Jan, 2010 | No Comments
Harvard researchers praise stunningly simple discovery!
According to recent estimates, nearly 1-in-3 Western adults has high blood pressure. But for the Kuna Indians living on a group of islands off the Caribbean coast of Panama, hypertension doesn’t even exist. In fact, after age 60, the average blood pressure for Kuna Indian islanders is a perfect [...]
