Diet

Is Your Current Lifestyle Making You Ill?

Are your daily lifestyle choices setting you up for illness in later life, or even worse are they impacting your life right now? Take our quiz today and find out! 15 Questions, 70 points, what's your health score?

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10 Foods to Boost Energy

10 Foods to Boost Energy

Before I give you the run down of the top 10 foods to boost energy I want to quickly explain what energy foods are and why its vital to incorporate good energy boosting foods into your diet. What are good "energy foods"? The term "energy foods" is a bit deceiving. All foods give ...
Yours Kids need to be living a Healthy Lifestyle

Yours Kids need to be living a Healthy Lifestyle

Helping kid’s lead healthy lifestyles is a vitally important step towards a lifetime of good health. I have recently been working with two young teenage boys in my role as a personal trainer and fitness instructor. Both were extremely inactive, struggling with both physical and mental problems caused by weight issues. Studies ...
Simple Nutrition Rules for You

Simple Nutrition Rules for You

Despite the proliferation of materials and education about losing weight, people are getting fatter than ever. How you look, and how you feel is very much down to what you eat. Lack of muscle mass, high body fat, lack of energy, bad skin, digestive problems, sleep problems, mood swings… All of these ...
Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle – Don’t Let Excuses Hold You Back

Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle – Don’t Let Excuses Hold You Back

You are responsible for your position in life at this moment. It is your responsibility to create the person you want to be and the life that you want to live. Do you want to carry on as you are? Do you want to change so you can create the life ...
Winter Breakfast … Fill up Before you get Moving

Winter Breakfast … Fill up Before you get Moving

I bet that as long as you can remember, your Mother told you to eat a hearty breakfast. Every diet programme, fitness and health magazine, many articles you have read have told you the same thing. Well sorry you’re about to read it again, Breakfast is the most important meal of ...
Lead a Healthy Lifestyle if you want to Feel Better and Live Longer

Lead a Healthy Lifestyle if you want to Feel Better and Live Longer

Think of lifestyle change as an evolving process, not as something with which you can start then stop when your targets are achieved. It’s easy to get caught up in the idea that you can achieve a certain number on a scale or a certain body size and that will be ...
Porridge your Healthy Start to the Day

Porridge your Healthy Start to the Day

This morning I woke up shivering. My room was freezing. With a rush of excitement, I leaped out of bed, ran to the window and threw open the curtains. Everything was white! A deep blanket of soft, fresh snow covered the whole view in front of me. The trees, the bushes, ...
What to eat before and after exercise

What to eat before and after exercise

Whatever sporting activity you participate in, whether it's playing tennis, rugby, swimming , jogging or weight training, you need to eat as nutritious and as balanced a diet as you can, to fuel your body properly and resourcefully. Good nutrition has some simple basic ground rules, which when you follow them ...
Low Gi Eating

Low Gi Eating

Have you ever questioned why you're always craving white bread and sugary foods when you're dieting? Well, the answer is simple, you may be eating too many foods with a high-GI. GI stands for the 'glycemic index' which ranks carbohydrates from 0 to 100, based on the rate at which these foods ...
Our Children – Don’t Let Them Be The Victims Of Obesity

Our Children – Don’t Let Them Be The Victims Of Obesity

A quarter of children in the UK are estimated to be clinically obese, that’s 1 in 4, making this in my mind one of the most critical problems of our time. In the last twenty years obesity has trebled, and unless drastic steps are taken now, within 10 years it is ...