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...]
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...]