We all know that foods such as chocolate, crisps and cakes are high in calories, and that consuming more calories than we burn will cause our bodies to store this excess as fat. For those people wishing to lose weight, it’s unfortunate that just a few mouthfuls of the ‘wrong’ foods, can take an hour’s [...]

 
 
     By Nicola Drabble. Registered Dietitian.
 
Atkins, Zone, South Beach, ‘fat fighting’ and ‘detox’ are all buzzwords in the dieting world. Some people are losing weight eating bacon and eggs, others by eating only grapefruit or cabbage. Some even claim to lose weight in their sleep or by breathing differently! But are these diets safe [...]

 
 
10 Simple Steps to Losing those Extra Christmas Pounds.
 

BE MORE ACTIVE IN YOUR DAILY ROUTINE.

 
Going for your morning run is a fantastic way to burn calories, but what’s really needed is to be active throughout the entire day, not just when you ‘exercise’. While going for a run in the morning will give you a [...]

 
 
 
 
New Year’s resolutions – And how to stick to them!  By Amanda Parker.
 
Christmas comes but once a year and brings with it endless parties, over eating, over drinking and general over indulgence. It is also the time when our best laid exercise regimes seem to get put on a back burner, in favour of exciting [...]

FAT GETTING FATTER!

There is no denying the world’s population is getting fatter, while in the developing world millions of people die from a basic lack of food, the population of the developed countries continues to get fatter and fatter.
According to the World Health Organisation there are currently more than 1 billion adults in [...]

Imagine being overweight, visiting a clinic and being gently taken through a therapeutic process, which included guided imagery, visualisation and other techniques, afterwards waking up fully convinced that you had just undergone a medical procedure under general anaesthetic. The imagined procedure involved the fitting of a Gastric Band around your stomach. You were aware of [...]