I sat there as a young, impressionable, budding nutritionist, absorbing all the information I was being told by a nutrition guru I looked up to at the time. Information that I now know to be complete BS. He was telling me how sugar is the devil of nutrition, high GI carbs don’t have their place in the healthy diet, and that fruit–yes, fruit(!)–is fattening, simply because it contains … [Read more...]
How To Get Drunk When Dieting
I didn’t know what I was in for as I sat on my McSeat in the early hours of a Sunday morning. I was admiring the 20 nuggets perched on the table beside me which sadly weren’t mine. Instead, they belonged to my friend who was busy making his way through his second burger of the meal. And then it happened: the onslaught of abuse began which I can only describe as a mix between slurred screams of … [Read more...]
Is Fish Oil A Scam?
There’s not a lot of stuff in the health, fitness, and nutrition world that get the seal of approval across the board from anybody and everybody in the industry. Fish oil, however, has almost reached that level of prominence; from being hailed by many as the next best thing to help ward off strokes to being said to improve fat burning during exercise, there’s not a lot fish oil hasn’t been said … [Read more...]
Why There’s No Such Thing As A Diet for Fast Metabolism
Before I entered the fitness and nutrition world, I couldn’t work out why some of my friends never seemed to add an ounce of fat to their toned physique no matter what kind of junk they scoffed down their gob. Biscuits, chips, burgers, the lot; it never seemed to add an inch to their waist like it did to me. And it didn’t make any sense because I was doing everything I could to follow a … [Read more...]
6 Ways A No Sugar Diet Won’t Make You Healthier
Unless you’ve recently arrived from a distant planet in some parallel universe, chances are you’ve come across the No Sugar Diet. In fact, like me, you might have even given the whole sugar free trend a whirl yourself in an attempt to solve all your health related woes. I know that back when I attempted to kick my sweet, yet toxic “addiction” for sugar, I was dead set that the white stuff … [Read more...]