Viva! Health unravels the most recent scientific research and makes it easy to understand. Here we update you on the latest findings…
Turkey Twizzlers
- Eggs
- Fats
- Meat
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…
Why fish oils are not the best choice
- Fish
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…
Obesity is spiralling out of control and spreading across the globe.
- Obesity and Overweight
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…
Why the world just keeps on getting fatter…
- Diets
- Fats
- Sweets & Salt & Junk Food
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…
Confusion about caffeinated drinks is rife!
- Diets
- Sweets & Salt & Junk Food
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…
If strength, stamina and muscles are your priority then veggie is the way to go
- Diets
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…
Setting the Record Straight on Soya
- Diets
- Soya
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…
Chicken is the healthy choice, we’re told
- Chickens - Meat
- Diets
- Eggs
- Meat
Low fat, high protein, essential for kids’ growth and for muscle in athletes! You can’t get a better marketing image than that. Sadly, it’s just another of the myths that…