CALORIE RESTRICTION: GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH?

By restricting your intake of calories, it may be possible to improve your health and live longer.  The people of Okinawa practice calorie restriction (CR) and are amongst the longest living people in the world.  We’re not talking starvation diets here, but a healthy, nutritious diet, low in calories.
Back in the 1930’s, researchers found that [...]

WOMEN: EXERCISE THROUGH YOUR 20′S, 30′S & 40′S

For all round health and fitness your exercise programme needs to contain a mixture of cardiovascular exercise, strength/mobility/flexibility training and stress relief.  To avoid boredom, maintain motivation and guarantee continuity and best results, it needs to be varied.  It will also need to be adjusted at each stage of your life to take into consideration [...]

HOW TO BURN CALORIES AND LOSE WEIGHT

Beware of very low calorie diets: they will slow the metabolism long term and although you can lose a lot of weight quickly, most are not the kind of regime you can stay on long term.  As soon as you come off the diet and eat normally, you will start to gain weight again.  You [...]

VITAMINS: AN OVERVIEW

What I hope to achieve with this article is an overview of the main vitamins (minerals coming soon) – what their job is, recommended daily amounts (RDA) and how to get them without resorting to supplements.  Firstly, though, just a couple of points: vitamins and minerals are an essential part of your diet in order [...]

WHAT IS A HEALTHY DIET?

In order for us to avoid disease, stay fit, healthy and to enable our bodies to work at an optimum level, we need to take in the right fuel. But what is this and where can we find it?