Caffeine – Friend or Foe?

Rather than writing a scientific article about caffeine, we decided to ask one of our clients, Kieron, about his experiences with coffee and energy drinks. He has been battling with weight loss for some time and has found it difficult to make progress, fluctuating all the time between getting weight down and shifting the pounds.…

Food Diary – Can It Help?

When trying to change our diet it can often be all too easy to give ourselves excuses. From the moment you sit down in a restaurant, if your friend is having a sweet you might excuse yourself. Or if you’re not feeling great on a rainy Sunday afternoon, with a big week of work ahead…

Cardio versus Weights

It’s one of the ultimate questions. Cat or dog? Morning or Evening? Cardio or Weights? Fitness aficiandos have often asked the question, which is better for sustained body health and well-being? In this article we intend to ask the question. Of course, like everything in life it’s important to phrase it within the context of…

How to Manage Your Water Intake

How do you manage your water intake? The body is about 60%-70% water. This means that you need plenty of the wet stuff to keep you running properly. We constantly lose water from our bodies as waste products in urine and through sweat, even in winter, which keeps us cool. Most health experts would recommend…

Mindful Eating – A New Way to Feed

What is mindful eating? Did you know that one of the greatest predictors of obesity is actually the speed at which you eat? Even though the original research was completed on people with diabetes, a scientific study on more than 60,000 people in Japan showed that the greatest predictor of weight gain was this individual…

Emotional Eating – The Root of Weight Gain

A recent study looked at how people perceive weight gain. Apparently, those people who associate weight loss with diet rather than exercise are more likely to achieve a significant result than those who associate loss with exercise. However why do we always find ourselves looking at how people lose weight rather than why people gain…