A simple guide to eating healthy and looking after your health while losing weight and staying active.
nutrition
What role does food play in cancer prevention?
Diet can play different roles in cancer – affecting your risk of getting cancer and also survival from cancer.
Intermittent Fasting: All you Need to Know
Intermittent fasting has been linked to a range of health benefits – including sustained weight loss. Here’s how to get started.
What is Multidisciplinary Pain Management? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
If you’ve got chronic pain that’s gone on for longer than three months or is very complex and started to affect other parts of your life, you’ll often be referred to a multidisciplinary pain clinic. Now, what does that mean? That means that we look at all the different aspects of your life and how the pain has affected it. So, it’s partly about the physical, it’s about drug safety, making sure that the medications that you’re on are not ones that you’re going to become dependent on, they’re not going to cause other problems within your life. It’s partly about making sure that nothing’s been missed in your diagnosis.
Are there foods to eat or avoid when you have cancer?
Should you eat a special diet if you have cancer? Find out from oncologist Professor Michael Boyer.
Glycaemic index
The glycaemic index (GI) ranks carbohydrates by how quickly your blood glucose (blood sugar) levels will rise after eating that food.
How to get kids to eat vegetables?
New research shows offering a variety of vegetables is key to getting kids to eat them.
How food choices can cut cancer risk
Much cancer is preventable by simple nutrition and lifestyle changes. A new study has estimated how seven different types of foods can influence cancer risk equivalent to alcohol, obesity and physical inactivity.
Food waste habits uncovered in US survey
Food waste is a big problem both for its financial and environmental impact. A new study has uncovered some consumer habits that can predict food wastage in the home.
Mediterranean diet cuts gestational diabetes risk
A clinical trial of a Mediterranean-style diet during pregnancy shows promise in reducing the risk of excess weight gain and gestational diabetes.
