This article is for you to ask any diet questions you have and we shall attempt to provide a concise and useful answer. If you have been trying to lose weight by following a diet of your own making or a specific weight loss diet plan but you are not seeing any results, then tell [...]

The HCG diet is another diet that follows in a growing trend of diets weight loss designed to help manage blood sugar levels and appetite. HCG stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin. You can see why most people prefer the call it the HCG weight loss diet. To learn more about HCG look at the Wikipedia [...]

The Greek Ionian diet is another weight loss diet that claims to allow you to eat as much as you like. In a way it is a lot like Atkins or the Caveman diet / Paleo diet. The name is derived from the Ionian Islands which are a small group of islands that run along [...]

If you have been reading up on how to build muscle and get fit then the chances are you have seen adverts for protein supplements. If you have sought advice on forums then people may have even suggested to you that you need to increase the amount of protein in your diet to help build [...]

The Dukan Diet is fast becoming the weight loss diet of choice all across the World. J-Lo was one of the first celebs to announce that she used the Dukan Diet to lose weight shortly after she gave birth. Since then the diet, which is available as a book, is spreading like wild fire. Everyone [...]

Smoothies are possibly the best way to eat to fuel your muscles, and bananas are an excellent source of energy for athletes because they can be digested while still exercising. As the banana smoothie is the staple home made energy drink for so many people, here we provide 10 banana smoothies for you to enjoy. [...]

Finally it seems as if food manufacturers are listening to the advice from science that sugar is the real cause of obesity and not fat. For many years people have considered breakfast cereals to be the healthy option as they contain almost no fat. However, the real problem is sugar. Breakfast cereals contain refined carbohydrates [...]

A few readers have raised an interesting question: Is it Christian to dedicate so much time to yourself in terms of exercises and weight loss? Some people, especially more devout Catholics, believe that selfishness is a sin and that if you are exercising everyday just to make yourself healthier and fitter then this is a [...]

Last night Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne bought in to Kirsty Henshaw’s healthy “ice cream” company. It is not actually ice cream but a frozen dessert which is much healthier than ice cream and only contains 100 calories per portion. Kirsty Henshaw has developed a frozen dessert which is a dairy-free healthy alternative to ice [...]

This is not really a diet, just a simple way to trick yourself into eating less. All you have to do on this diet is hide your cookies from yourself, so that you eat less. It uses the old saying “out of sight, out of mind”, although we prefer “out of sight, out of stomach”. [...]

Often the advice from health professionals is to eat small portions of food more frequently. Athletes and bodybuilders take this approach by eating “micromeals” to ensure that they maintain a healthy supply of protein to their muscles and to keep their metabolism high. The metabolism effect is the reason why many people advise us to [...]

More and more people are starting to suffer from hay fever. Each year more children develop the condition and also adults, that never had hay fever before, are starting to develop symptoms. What can you do to prevent, or at least reduce the symptoms of hay fever? Hay fever is caused by allergens that enter [...]

Many people look for easy ways to lose weight quicker. Adding some spice to your diet seems to be one simple solution that can help. Spice can help you to lose weight quicker by increasing your metabolic rate. Because of the way spices are absorbed into the body when digested these spices should be eaten [...]

Wimbledon 2010 has just started, so how better than to celebrate with one of Martina Navratilova’s favorite smoothie recipes, the Martina 8. The vegetable smoothie makes a great mid morning snack that provides both carbs and essential nutrients and vitamins. 1 tomato 1 carrot 1 celery stick 225g spinach 1/2 cucumber 1 red pepper 225g [...]

Yelena Isinbayeva shared her current training diet this week. Yelena Isinbayeva is the Russian pole vaulting champion who won Olympic gold in 2004 an 2008. She was also named Female Athlete of the Year 3 times by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Yelena Isinbayeva was born in 1982, she is also the ambassador of [...]

How should you use this GI information? The Glycemic Index represents how much sugar is in any food. If you are serious about losing weight then you should only eat foods that are low GI. From the data below you can see that you can eat breakfast cereals but only oat based cereals with no [...]

One of the questions we are most often asked is “can I still eat white bread if I am exercising?”. The answer is always No. However, how many people ignore this advice? And why? To understand why you crave food and why you put on fat it is important to understand why you want to [...]

Yup, it’s our nutritional motto for weight loss and good health: “Eat it Raw and Eat it Whole!” Catchy, we know, but you might want a few more details. Here goes. Eat as many foods as you can in their whole natural state without cooking or processing them. For example, most fruits and vegetables can [...]

The most common reasons people give for not eating healthy food are: “I do not know how to make healthy food, it is too complicated” “I do not have time to make healthy food” These excuses are very lame indeed. Healthy food literally grows on trees (we are talking about apples) so there is no excuse not to [...]

Christina Aguilera took a slightly unusual approach to eating to help maintain her slim figure and it seems to work. Her diet was simple in theory, although a little harder at times to build a recipe (she had her own chef). Christina would ensure that at every meal she ate four different [...]