Tag: healthy eating
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Can the Mediterranean diet ease IBS symptoms? New research
For those living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), the daily struggle of bloating, discomfort, and unpredictable digestion can feel exhausting. Finding the right diet to ease symptoms can be frustrating – especially when advice seems to contradict itself. However, a promising new study (2025) from Michigan Medicine suggests that the Mediterranean diet could be a…
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Want to achieve your most important goals? Don’t share them!
How many times have you seen the advice that you should share your goals? Yep, tell everyone about your goals and you are more likely to achieve them. Obvious, isn’t it? It increases your accountability, and success comes with accountability. But research suggests that this is not correct. In fact, research suggests that you are…
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What is good nutrition advice?
You may feel that it’s hard to know which foods are healthy because expert advice is always changing. Of course, there are some nutritional recommendations that have stood the test of time and should be applied by everyone. Undoubtedly some people also use the changing expert advice to justify appalling eating habits on the grounds…
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Easy Ways to Cut Down on Salt and Still Enjoy Delicious Meals
When it comes to healthy eating, reducing your sodium intake is a crucial step in maintaining overall well-being. High sodium (salt) consumption has been linked to various health issues, including high blood pressure and heart disease. But what to do about it when salty food is so tasty. 5 ways to reduce your salt intake…
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How do I keep a food diary that’s easy to maintain?
Food diaries (also called food journals) are an important method for tracking food consumption and can support a variety of goals, including weight loss, healthier food choices, detecting deficiencies, identifying allergies, and determining foods that trigger other symptoms. Research shows that for people interested in losing weight, keeping a journal can be a very effective tool…
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How to deal with fat shaming: strategies for confidence and resilience
Fat shaming doesn’t help people lose weight. In fact, it may well do the opposite – stop them losing weight or even mean they put weight on.
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How to avoid your health getting worse when you get older
An old friend’s health is deteriorating as she is gettting older. She asked my advice. This is what I said.
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The link between mindfulness and healthy eating: what you need to know
If you do a lot of “mindless eating”, practicing mindfulness can be very beneficial. It’s teaching you how to catch unhelpful thoughts quickly
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Is your childhood affecting what you eat now?
Here are seven questions you can ask yourself to help establish if childhood patterns are still affecting what you eat and how you eat.
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The truth about ultra-processed foods: what are you really eating?
Ultra-processed foods have been linked to cancer, early death and changes in the gut and the brain. But what do we really know.