The word 'meditation' often elicits aversive reactions in the minds of the non-spiritual. To them, the word conjures up images of praying monks in brightly coloured robes and hippies smoking marijuana rambling about enlightenment. The act of mindfulness meditation, however, has nothing to do with religion or spirituality. I’m a [...]
The vitamin and supplement industry turns over billions of dollars each year. Some are claimed to alleviate minor symptoms like achy joints, others are promoted as life-extenders or cancer curers. Even sensible people who want to avoid basic deficients often take multivitamins. The problems with multivitamins, however, are fourfold: Foods are [...]
Omega 3 fish oil has had lots of attention in the media of late. In one recent scaremongering media frenzy, they said it caused prostate cancer. This is a shame. The evidence for this claim has since been shown to be faulty, but that part of the story didn't get [...]
You decide you want to lose weight. You buy new trainers, water bottles and join a gym. You throw out all the junk food in your house and start a new dietary regimen of clean eating. You keep up your new lifestyle for three weeks. You feel much better, look [...]
The weight loss industry turns over billions each year. It's continuing to grow with help from popular fitness apps, like Apple's forthcoming iWatch. We all sort of know in the back of our minds what a healthy lifestyle looks like, but we're constantly distracted by the media who publish contradictory advice every [...]
Anyone who's familiar with the term 'clean eating' or 'paleo' will also be familiar with the term 'superfood'. Ask any clean eating fitness enthusiast what to fill your fridge with and they'll undoubtedly list foods such as: blueberries, oats, spinach, broccoli, kidney beans, sweet potatoes, kale, and so on. What [...]
Losing weight is simply a matter of expending more calories than you consume. Most people go about shedding the pounds through a dietary calorie deficit coupled with activities like running and cycling. There is however, another known mechanism of burning calories without eating less or going to the gym. It's [...]
Everyone, at some point in their lives, will want to lose weight. For some it might be for reasons as trivial as looking better in their wedding photos — for others, a health crisis at the end of a lifetime of dietary indulgence. The health industry is growing by the billions each [...]
