With barely a week to go to the Christmas Holidays you can be forgiven for getting into a bit of a tizz and becoming anxious because there is so much to think about. Food, gifts, travel arrangements, are just some of those! So what can we do to keep body, soul and our surgery on[Read More]
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Exercise = Weight Loss? Does It?
GUEST POST: Does exercise really lead to weight loss? If we are speaking in a very literal sense, exercise does not lead to weight loss – if you believe that an hour of exercise only burns off 200 calories worth of a 400 calorie doughnut.
3 Reasons Why Fresh Is Best After WLS!
There has been quite a lot about diets in the media this week – not least the Horizon programme last night examining the impact of ‘cleaning eating’. Somewhere along the way the clean eating concept (which many saw as the opposite of processed/junk food eating) has become mixed up with bogus scientific[Read More]
5 Ways To Stay Active This Winter
GUEST POST: When it’s grey and gloomy outside and the days are short, it can be hard to motivate yourself to get up and do exercise. In the lead up to Christmas, we are also more likely to eat more of the less healthy options! Between mulled wine, mince pies and lack of exposure[Read More]
Hidden Health Benefits of your Christmas Dinner
GUEST POST: Did you know we consume as much as three times our recommended daily calorie intake on Christmas day? But it’s not all doom and gloom…