Top tips for festive eating
Introduction Every Monday we send out a newsletter that looks at a particular aspect of diet and health in the
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dieting
Metabolism, dieting & reaching goal weight
Executive summary * A paper has just been published, which examined the impact of a very low-calorie diet on metabolism
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Christmas & weight gain
Executive summary * The festive period is notorious for weight gain and this phenomenon has been the subject of academic
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Slimming World’s view of low carb diets
The UK Sun newspaper seems to have been the first to pick up this story: “‘CARBFUSION’ Low-carb diets are ‘damaging
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Men, Women & Dieting
This week’s note comes from a global collaboration between researchers in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The research was reported
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Review of 2016
These are the topics that I’ve researched and blogged about this year: January New Year Resolutions – how to be the
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‘Fitbits’ won’t make you slim, but nor will low-cal diets
A really interesting study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on September 20th 2016. It was
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Two thirds of Brits on a diet most of the time
I have never smoked. I have never even put a cigarette between my lips; never wondered what it would be
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New Year Resolutions – how to be the 1 in 12
Did you make any New Year resolutions? Apparently 25% of people don’t make it beyond the first week of their
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Top tips for Christmas (to avoid looking like Santa)!
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dame Sally Davies, made the headlines last week. In her annual report she said “I
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