After having no issues, allergies or intolerances with food growing up, my body decided it didn’t like dairy back in the early summer of 2020. This was a considerable shock as I was asking myself “why now?” and, “why dairy?”, but I also faced a huge life change. It felt like dairy was in ...

What piques your curiosity around a diet? When a group of your friends gloat about a new diet they are trying and are receiving amazing results, a diet you are not familiar with? The same occurred recently and I just have to ask you, have you heard of the alkaline diet? Does it make a difference ...

When you’re trying to boost your fitness, whether it be in terms of strength, endurance or sporting performance, it’s easy to solely focus on the intake of macronutrients. Protein, carbs and fibre, for example, tend to get the limelight. Micronutrients however, which are mostly vitamins and ...

Vegetarianism, Veganism, Paleo, Gluten and Lactose; there are a plethora of diet cultures out there. They each have their cult followings and dedicated advocates claiming that theirs is 'The One'. Now however, there is a group diet emerging. It’s called the Whole Foods Plant Based diet (WFPB). It’s ...

The diet industry is forever growing and feeding global public false hope daily. It is people’s jobs in this industry to lie, elevate rumours off of very little evidence and to promote products targeted at people’s laziness in hope of weight loss that, quite frankly, do nothing. Sarah Brealey ...

If you are newly diagnosed with coeliac disease or are avoiding gluten for other health reasons, switching to a gluten-free diet can be a massive lifestyle change because gluten is present in several staple foods. Getting familiar with which foods you can and cannot eat is the key to making a ...

Founded in 2008, the New York-based tech startup, Noom, has been going from strength to strength in the ‘diet app’ marketplace. With a long-term focus on sustainable and healthy lifestyle changes informed by psychological research, Noom aims to improve client health from the inside out. It's not ...

Do you ever plan to eat healthy and follow a strict diet plan, but then seem to crumble at the sight of a dessert and wine menu? We tend to hold our own willpower accountable if a diet becomes too challenging to stick to, when in fact, it’s only our body trying to survive. I’ve been there - and so ...

Eating nothing but acai bowls will obviously result in a flatter tummy, and cutting off carbs will sort out our issue of being overweight, right? Well, that depends on what wellness means in our lives as compared to what that it means in the wellness industry. Businesses now advertise juice ...

When we engage in pleasurable activities such as eating, drinking, or listening to music our brain releases dopamine. However when we do these things too frequently, or engage in such activities too much, our brain makes it more difficult to regulate this system. Want to know how to get a handle on ...