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Information comes belting at us from across the world and it’s impossible to keep up, to know everything you feel you should. Our diet has changed, too – becoming more…
“It’s a goat’s life! Waited on hand and foot, with ‘room service’ delivering the perfect menu of food. In these pampered conditions… our goats enjoy all of life’s home comforts…”…
The Royal College of Physicians’ report on diet and heart disease in 1976 encouraged us to eat white meat in place of red on the grounds that it contains less…
Like a record stuck in a groove – the advice just keeps on repeating itself. Eat more fish to be healthy, to make your brain grow, to turn you into…
Viva! nutritionist Amanda Woodvine explains why in her Globesity report and outlines what you can do to lose weight perfectly, painlessly and permanently. It’s a huge problem, it’s growing rapidly…
Obesity is now the most important nutritional disease in the Western world. And in even the poorest countries it is increasing at an alarming rate. For the first time in…
Veronika Powell shuns the sensationalism and charts a path through the caffeine labyrinth. Caffeine is the most widely consumed pharmacologically active (drug-like) substance in the world. Found naturally in over…
Don’t buy the old chestnut that a world-class athlete can’t get enough protein from a vegetarian diet! Carl Lewis is all the proof you need, the greatest track-and-field athlete ever…
Soya foods may confer many health benefits, but remain controversial. Here we review the latest research and set the record straight. PHYTOESTROGENS Many of the beneficial (and supposed harmful) effects…
