Diet books, meal replacement plans, calorie counting, low calorie (but often high sugar) ‘diet foods’… the diet industry sells weight loss to us hard - and no wonder: conservative estimates value it at around $3 billion in the US alone. So if you want to lose weight safely and sustainably, what should your approach be? We spoke to Nathalie Chan...

We all lack energy from time to time and feel as though we’re not performing at our best. Energy drinks - full of caffeine and sugar - are cleverly marketed to us a quick fix to get us through this slump. Of course these aren’t a long-term solution. All you’ll do is raise your blood sugar only to have it crash back down again. So we have more c...

Hay fever can be a real drag for sufferers — itchy runny eyes, tickly throat, relentless sneezing, a blocked and runny nose. Symptoms can last for days on end, making sufferers feel lousy and draining their energy levels. Hay fever also comes at a time when many young adults are trying to study or sit for their exams, which is an added bug bea...

As you are preparing the special Easter holiday breakfasts - why not try some fantastically nourishing health promoting juices? These juices are loaded with healthy photo-chemicals, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and life-giving enzymes. These juices will give the building blocks to health and your body can then do its own hea...

It can be very worrying when the doctor explains that your cholesterol levels are too high, and the risk of heart problems and stroke means now is the time for statin medication. Statins generate billions in revenue for the pharmaceutical industry, but there is a debate about how effective they actually are and they are associated with many seri...

Popping a pill to boost your diet might sound like an easy fix but supplements often do not work - and could even do harm, concludes an article in the New Scientist. There is serious doubt in scientific circles that artificial supplements are effective in giving us health benefits and it even seems that some supplements can be harmful. A good e...