If you’re going to eat a high fat meal you should consider some high intensity exercise first.
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…Inflamed in the brain! Tip of the hat to Cypress Hill aside, this blog comes back to the effect our diet can have on the contents of our gut microbiome and the effect this can exert on our bodies.
Yep, strange as it sounds, it seems that when rice is boiled in water with a bit of coconut oil added and then cooled in the fridge for half a day it makes the starch less digestible and therefore delivers fewer calories.
Interesting news published in the Journal BMC Medicine this week. We have
If you want to get the most carotenes out of your eggs then scrambled certainly seems not the way to do it. And why would you care? Well, the carotenes in eggs help protect against age related eye sight deterioration.
Another week and another publication about coffee consumption. This one published ahead of print on the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition website gives a familiar story, drinking coffee seems to be inversely related with chance of death.
If you want your child to be the best they can be it seems that breastfeeding them might be the way to go.
We have mentioned it on one or two occasions and it is a source of interest for many a nutritional scientist. How come the French, who consume a high level of saturated fat, have such low levels of coronary heart disease?
What do you think when you hear the word salt? Some of us would think of the difference a small sprinkle can make to our chips, some would think “high blood pressure/stroke”, but would you think that it could play a role in protecting you from bugs?
Interesting news from the English newspaper the Telegraph this week. It seems that the amount of alcohol consumed by people in the UK is dropping.