Higher Fat Breakfast Healthier Than Grain
Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 19. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
Should you start the day with bacon or bagels or bran? Higher fat at breakfast may be healthier than you think, says UAB research. Though it is still important to make sure the fat is from good quality animals and cooked at lower temperatures for shorter cooking times. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The age-old maxim “Eat [...]
Overated and Outdated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Stepping on the scales is over rated, outdated and “over weighted.”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 [...]
Low Vitamin D can trigger Weight Gain
Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 02. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
This time of year is a great time to venture abroad on a late summer holiday and I’m really looking forward to catching some rays and topping up my vitamin D this year. An interesting article appeared this year in the journal ‘Medical Hypotheses’ – my favourite medical reading – which puts forth the idea [...]
New Nutrigenomic Discovery
Posted by Guy Edwards in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 17. Sep, 2009 | No Comments
A nutrigenomic study has shown for the first time that long term consumption of fish oil positively influences the gene expression of immune cells in humans. The new findings come from a Dutch research group and were reported in the July 2009 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In this report healthy elderly [...]
