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May 18, 2018

Could the Mediterranean diet really help your health?

The Mediterranean diet is one of the biggest trends in recent years, with plenty of people arguing that it has helped them lose weight and live a healthier life. However, is it really a sustainable way to live, or is it just another fad that will fade over time? Unlike a lot of trendy, unsustainable diets, eating Mediterranean doesn't involve obsessive calorie counting, fasting, cutting out a particular macronutrient or anything extreme. It simply means eating a diet consisting mainly of f...
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Managing weight

April 10, 2018

Cure your Easter addiction: How to curb those chocolate cravings

Easter was over a week ago, yet if you're anything like us, you'll still be struggling to get the taste of chocolate eggs out of your mind. There's something about Easter eggs that makes them so much more delicious than normal chocolate, which is great once a year but not so good when you're trying to eat healthily. The problem is, chocolate can be fairly addictive, making it hard to stop once you have a taste for it. This is why you're more likely to crave a Mars Bar than an apple. In fac...
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February 21, 2018

How to kill your cravings and save your diet

One of the hardest things to deal with when you're dieting is that craving feeling, where you just have to have a bar of chocolate or bag of crisps. Unfortunately, it seems the things we crave are always unhealthy snacks; if you find yourself desperate for a nice stick of celery or an apple, consider yourself lucky! The truth is that foods high in sugar, fat or both can produce something of an addictive effect in us when we consume them. This means we end up craving them, particularly at t...
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Managing weight

December 6, 2017

The importance of eating at the right time

Most people who have tried to lose weight - or just manage their diet - will have learnt the importance of controlling what goes into their meals. However, this is only one aspect of healthy eating. Another key element of it that many people don't know about is when you're feeding yourself. The times at which you eat can have a surprisingly significant effect on your weight-loss efforts. You might find yourself struggling to shed the pounds if you are eating too late, or too early, without...
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Managing weight

December 4, 2017

Top tips for a healthy Christmas

Christmas is coming, and we all know what that means: roast dinners, brandy butter, chocolates, wine, mince pies and Christmas pudding. Yes, it's a delicious treat each year, but it comes with a hefty calorie count. This means January turns into a month of hard work at the gym just to get back to the weight you were at in mid-December. This doesn't have to be the case, of course. While Christmas is traditionally a holiday of eating, drinking and generally overindulging, you can still be as...
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