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Low calorie, high protein pasta dish
Tomato penne with chicken Are you a fan of pasta? But you can’t have it because of your strict and healthy diet plan. Then here I have an amazing, light, and healthy recipe for you. The best thing about this delicious pasta recipe is that it is full of flavors with...
Mixed berry smoothie bowl
Mixed berry smoothie bowl Are you tired of eating the same breakfast every day? Then here I have a delicious and healthy recipe for you. It will keep you energetic and active for the whole day. A smoothie bowl of raspberries and blueberries is one of the most...
Appetite 101
It is incredibly hard to ignore hunger, and the low blood sugar, temper and general lethargic feeling that can come with it. That being said, a simple understanding into how our appetite is regulated from a physical point of view, and a psychological point of view, can help us easily tame this beast.
Iron: Athlete management guidelines.
This is the final part of the series relating to iron, and will focus predominantly on how this effects athletes, when it's time to supplement, symptoms to look out for and how you can keep yourself healthy. If you haven't read parts I & II, covering how iron is...
Iron: How does iron deficiency & anemia develop?
What are the factors that drive this forward? Knowing exactly how and why iron deficiency happens and slip slides into anemia is important in preventing it's occurrence. Knowledge is power in a scenario like this. Presuming you have read the last article outlining a...
Iron: Digestion & absorption
This article is going to be the first on the topic of iron, how much we need, the roles it plays, how it's used, digested and how our body's maintain our iron stores, and how athletes are more prone to having lower iron stores. This will all result in a final...
Nutrition & immunity.
There had been a LOT of hype in recent times due to the coronavirus outbreak on the links between nutrition, health & immune function. A lot of this information has been poorly supported by evidence, misleading or simply false. Such claims include ketogenic diets...
Good food & bad food, missing the point?
Are we asking the wrong question? Challenging biases This is a much nuanced topic that I come into contact with multiple times per day, as humans we are conditioned to classify and qualify everything,...
New Year’s Resolutions
Are you starting off next year, like you start off every year, with resolutions that you already know are destined to burn out around mid February? Maybe you even have an idea in mind, maybe you want to wait until after the Christmas period is over? There is a reason...
Top tips for weight management over the festive period
'Tis the season to be jolly, but it doesn't need to be the season to ruin all of your health & fitness ambitions. If you are like me, and all of the clients I ever had, or, you are just a normal person, then this topic will probably concern you, year in, year out....