Monthly Archives: May 2015

Which Diet Is Right For You?

Many people enquire as to what is a healthy diet. This is an interesting question because if we look at the diets consumed by populations around the World, we can see that traditional diets differ greatly. For example, the Massai … Continue reading

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How To Minimise The Effects of Low Quality Foods

High quality diets are good for the health. In particular high quality diets, based on traditional eating practices have been shown to reduce the risk of Wester lifestyle diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity and type 2 diabetes. High … Continue reading

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Vitamin D Supplements in the Spring?

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Essential Nutrients: Essential For A Reason

Essential nutrients are so named for a reason. They comprise a group of chemicals that are required to maintain life, but which cannot be manufactured endogenously. In humans, essential nutrients fall into a number of categories including amino acids, organic … Continue reading

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Free Radical Recycling and The Eye

Free radicals are chemicals that possess an unpaired electron in their outer orbital. This chemical structure makes them reactive and interaction with other chemicals can cause the free radical to gain an electron. Such interactions reduce and stabilise the free … Continue reading

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Does Alcohol Affect Thiamine Metabolism?

Alcoholics have poor nutritional status. In particular alcoholics are often deficient in a number of B vitamins, including thiamine. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a cluster of neurological disorders associated with alcohol induced thiamine deficiency that includes palsies, ataxia of gait, nystagmus … Continue reading

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Anthocyanins and Flavonols Improve Insulin Sensitivity

Flavonoids are polyphenolic secondary plant metabolites that are bioavailable in humans and have been shown to confer health benefits to those who consume them regularly. In particular, flavonoid consumption is associated with protection from Western lifestyle diseases, and this may … Continue reading

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Antioxidant Supplements: More Evidence They Work

Oxidative stress is associated with the aetiology of many of the Western lifestyle diseases such as metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, obesity and type 2 diabetes. Although an association does not prove a cause and effect, studies with animals and humans … Continue reading

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Weight Loss Without ‘Dieting’

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Cognitive Performance and Nutrition Quality

The link between nutrition and physical health is well established. The role of essential nutrients in disease were first characterised through observational studies as well as through deficiency experiments using animals. For this work it was understood that that low … Continue reading

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