If you eat a good diet and follow healthy eating guidelines do you need to detox - and if you do, how should you go about it? The human body is a self-righting mechanism and has an almost infinite capacity to sort out most problems that occur, including dealing with the toxins we ingest [...]

Healthy Eating and Dieting are often confused as the same thing. They are not. Personally I am not in favor of so-called diets - I believe that following healthy eating guidelines allows your body to adjust to the best weight for you. However it is an undeniable fact that diets are a part of many [...]

Following Healthy Eating Guidelines and improving your diet is all very well, but what if the food itself is causing you a problem? Eating healthy food will boost your immune system, and give more energy and vitality - but only if the food itself is wholesome. There are many food borne bacteria and [...]

Healthy Eating Guidelines tell us that we must reduce the fats we take on board but what exactly does that mean, and how can we do it? We have to make a distinction between body fat and dietary fat. However thin we are we all have body fat and it is essential to protect our [...]

We live in a world that is increasingly dependent on pesticides and chemicals but is that the best way? What is the long term impact of those chemicals on our health and our lifestyle? Is organic better? More and more people have concerns about the ever increasing level of manmade chemical compounds in our everyday [...]

If you want to make the most of your body your have to eat healthily and exercise healthily. One thing you should always bear in mind that healthy eating and healthy exercise doesn’t mean punishing yourself with a spartan diet, or driving yourself into the ground with a fearsome exercise regime. Health comes from moderation, [...]

Food tastes better when it is properly seasoned to bring out all the flavours. The seasoning of choice was always Salt which we now know is not the best thing to have in excess and healthy eating guidelines suggest that we avoid adding it. So how do we replace that as a flavour enhancer?
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Vitamins are something we must have in our diet if we are to follow healthy eating guidelines but do we actually know what those all important vitamins do? Do we know why we should eat some daily and some less often? The main reason for that is that some vitamins are soluble in water and [...]

We all know that fried food is not particularly good for us, but that doesn’t stop us craving the occasional crispy, crunchy golden brown something or other. Because frying means food comes into contact with hot fat all the flavour and nutrients are sealed in which makes it tasty. In moderation it isn’t [...]