Organic NZ

4 min read

A new book by David Musgrave of Waihi Bush Farm brings together a lot of health and nutrition information in 350 pages. Titled Take Charge of Your Happiness, Bellyfat and Sexiness, it’s written for women, but will have wide appeal. This extract shows

Women's Fitness

3 min read

Having a poor mindset where food is concerned can hinder your weight-loss goals. However much you want to lose weight and improve your health, if you don’t have your head in the right place, you won’t achieve your aims. You may do well for a few days

Longevity Magazine

3 min read

We are constantly bombarded with information on how to eat healthy these days. And some of it is contradictory. Increasingly, many myths about why people become fat are being busted, as the opinions of holistic practitioners are at long last being he

The Atlantic

2 min read

On Monday, the reporter Taylor Lorenz noticed that Google Maps had a new feature: Walking distances were delivered in terms of calories. Instead of simply telling her that a walk would take 13 minutes, the app also converted that to an amount of ener

Healthy Food Guide

1 min read

→ Trans fatty acids, which appear in the ingredients list of processed foods as ‘partially hydrogenated’ oils. → Deep-fried fast foods. → Processed meats and grain-fed meat. → Foods with a high saturated fat content, such as fatty cuts of meat and sk

Australian Men's Fitness

1 min read

“Avocados are nature’s ideal fruit for weight loss,” says Jorge Cruise, author of The Belly Fat Cure. “They replace sugar with appetite-curbing good fat.” Broccoli adds bulk to your meal. To feel full, you want foods that add volume with minimal calo

Top Sante

2 min read

OBESITY IS HITTING THE headlines. But some of the points being raised sound like more of the same: putting nutritional information on food packaging, talking about calories, and mainly pointing fingers at the food industry. Move more, eat less, lose

Fairlady

2 min read

White toast is on breakfast plates every morning, but unlike healthier wholemeal bread, it has a high glycaemic index, meaning it causes blood sugar to shoot up. The brain thinks it has lots of energy and orders a large portion of it to be stored as

Women's Fitness

1 min read

1 Get gut healthy. Your gut microbiome does more than digest food. It produces hormones, influences circadian rhythm and modulates inflammation. Keep it healthy with fermented foods such as yoghurt, kefir, sauerkraut and kimchi. 2 Cut some carbs. Th

Best Self Magazine

2 min read

— How healthy is your lifestyle?  With all the rush and stressfulness of campus life, students rarely ask themselves this question. Most young people neglect their health in pursuit of success until they finally realize that they are on the wrong pat

Australian Men's Fitness

2 min read

All fruits and veg contain health-enhancing nutrients. But while the five-a-day mantra is good at encouraging people to eat more fresh produce in general, if you want to get the most out of your training, and support your fat-burning and muscle-build

Men's Fitness UK

2 min read

All fruits and veg contain health-enhancing nutrients. But while the five-a-day mantra is good at encouraging people to eat more fresh produce in general, if you want to get the most out of your training, and support your fat-burning and muscle-build

Fête

7 min read

When you look at the biochemistry of the body, all of the billions of reactions that are taking place inside us every second of every day, it’s not so simple. And research has confirmed that not all calories are created equal. At the most basic and f

Australian Men's Fitness

1 min read

Do you wake up to the sound of music or the piercing beep-beep-beep of your mobile? The sounds you wake up to could be affecting how groggy you are in the morning, according to new research from RMIT Uni, Vic. The study suggests melodic alarms could

NPR

3 min read

A new study finds time-restricted eating helped overweight people who were at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes to lose about 3% of their body weight, reduce belly fat and feel more energetic.

Australasian Dirt Bike Magazine

2 min read

If you ride off-road motorcycles then losing fat brings benefits in increased fitness, flexibility, a better power-to-weight ratio, increased endurance and more. Although there’s no easy way to do it, there are two areas that need to be addressed, en

People Magazine South Africa

2 min read

CHRISTMAS is loads of fun, Easter is very special and Valentine’s Day is always a treat, but we have to be honest here, could anything be better than a holiday dedicated to peanut butter? Okay, so it’s an American holiday but we will use any excuse

Healthy Food Guide

1 min read

Your individual daily nutrition intake will vary depending on age, gender, height, weight and level of physical activity. We use 8700kJ (2100cal) as the recommended average daily energy intake because this is the figure prescribed by the Australia N

Good Health

4 min read

As humans, our bodies have evolved with the seasons to eat heavily in the harvest season (autumn) and keep weight on in the winter to protect from the cold and lack of food. We naturally crave warm foods and the fats to protect our organs and skin fr

New Zealand Listener

2 min read

I’m starting to notice the inevitable signs of ageing. What foods are best to help maintain healthy skin? New Zealand’s UV (ultraviolet) levels are much higher than those in the UK, the ancestral home of most sunburnt Kiwis. Those with paler skin are

Eat Well

1 min read

Food is the subject of a lot of misconceptions, some of them personal and some of them more widely held. Perhaps because we engage with food every day we form strong opinions about what we will or will not eat; our society encourages this. But it doe

Essentials South Africa

1 min read

With winter in full swing, rich, kilojoule-dense foods can leave you feeling bloated and heavy, while a build-up of fat around the middle is a major risk factor for several diseases, especially heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Here, nutritionist Ro

Pick Me Up

1 min read

By adopting these healthy habits, you can help lower your cholesterol. Meat pies, butter, hard cheese and biscuits are all high in saturated fats which can raise the level of cholesterol in your blood. Replace them with small amounts of foods high in

Good

2 min read

For many health-conscious people out there, the path to wellness can often mean isolating symptoms and treating them individually. If we want to lose weight, we focus on calories in, calories out. If we are tired, we turn to coffee to get us through.

LOSE IT The Low Carb & Paleo Way

4 min read

It’s important to remember that eating low-carb, healthy fat is a way of living, not a quick-fix diet. We’re all physiologically unique and what works for others might not work for you. If your weight loss stalls, or you’re struggling with allergies

You South Africa

4 min read

THIS year I’m going to eat better, exercise more and get rid of those extra kilos. Sound familiar? It’s a common new year’s resolution. And it’s also pretty common that by the time February rolls around, most people’s motivation is flagging. You’re n

Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

4 min read

As humans, our bodies have evolved with the seasons to eat heavily in the harvest season (autumn) and keep weight on in the winter to protect from the cold and lack of food. We naturally crave warm foods and the fats to protect our organs and skin fr

Kitchen Garden

1 min read

An international commission of 37 scientists spent two years devising the Planetary Health Diet, which was launched at the beginning of this year in a report in the Lancet medical journal. The researchers’ aim was to find a way of feeding a growing p

Earth Garden

2 min read

Making the most of home grown produce by Lolo Houbein and Tori Arbon Small format, hardcover, full colour, 340 pages Published by Wakefield Press $49.95 inc GST Put yourself in the expert hands of gardening guru Lolo Houbein, and organic farm

Futurity

1 min read

Foods that have both fat and carbohydrates are more rewarding, calorie for calorie, than foods with either energy source alone, according to new research. Fatty foods like cheese trigger one pathway of signals to reward centers in the brain while car