Category Archives: High Quality Diet

How Long Does It Take For Diet to be a Problem?

Posted on February 28, 2024 by Robert Barrington

Eating a healthy diet can cause significant improvements in health and a huge volume of research supports this contention. However, the time period in which improvements can be seen are often slow and in some cases may take months or … Continue reading →

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The Nutritional Basics

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Robert Barrington

Many see nutrition as a complex topic that requires complexity to solve nutritional problems. The supplement industry feeds this complexity by providing a range of metabolically complex supplements that few really understand the effects of. However, when one steps back … Continue reading →

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An Honest Appraisal Of Your Own Nutritional Stores

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Robert Barrington

You are what you eat and it is almost certain that if a particular food is in your cupboard, you will eventually eat it. Therefore one of the tenets of nutrition is that you should only buy food that is … Continue reading →

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Part Time Healthy Eating

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Robert Barrington

Evidence suggests that healthy eating can significantly reduce the risk of a number of diseases. A healthy high quality balanced diet is essential to a healthy lifestyle and is important for both mind and body. In addition, a healthy diet … Continue reading →

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What Can You Expect From Better Nutrition

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Robert Barrington

Eating a higher quality diet has been shown to improve health, and those that choose this route can expect a number of beneficial changes. Firstly, a higher quality diet will provide the brain with the correct nutrition, and concentration levels, … Continue reading →

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The Propensity to Overeat Food

Posted on January 5, 2023 by Robert Barrington

Overeating food is considered by many to be the primary cause of weight gain. While the evidence at first glance does appear to support this, the solution, which is to eat less food, has been consistently shown not to cause … Continue reading →

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Does Good Nutrition Have to be Expensive?

Posted on November 29, 2022 by Robert Barrington

One argument often trotted out as an excuse to healthy eating, is that healthy food costs more to buy than unhealthy food. This can be the case, but really depends on the food under consideration. Some health foods are expensive, … Continue reading →

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Low Energy Versus High Energy Food

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Robert Barrington

The Western diet is high in energy and this is a problem because this leads to inflammation and this subsequently causes weight gain. The current advice in the West is therefore to eat fewer calories and attempt to consume more … Continue reading →

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The Food Pyramid

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Robert Barrington

The food pyramid is a description of the type and quantities of foods that are recommended for good health. At the base of the pyramid are the starchy carbohydrate foods such as bread and potatoes, on top of this is … Continue reading →

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Plant Based Diet: Too Little of a Good Thing

Posted on September 16, 2022 by Robert Barrington

Plant based diets have been shown to have significant health benefits. Notice that the reference is to plants based diets not vegetarian diets. Eating meat can be healthy as meat contains a number of nutrients not readily available elsewhere including … Continue reading →

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