Category Archives: High Quality Diet

I Don’t Have Time For Healthy Food

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Robert Barrington
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The Benefits of Good Childhood Nutrition

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Robert Barrington

Undernutrition is a serious problem in the Third World. In most developing countries, child poverty is a real concern and it is estimated that around 200 million children under the age of 5 years living in Asia and Africa fail … Continue reading →

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Does Where You Shop Affect The Food Quality You Purchase?

Posted on December 25, 2017 by Robert Barrington

There is an association between poverty and poor health. This association is quite easy to explain in Third World developing countries, as the poorest often do not have access to adequate quantities of protein or clean drinking water. Therefore the … Continue reading →

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Latency Period For Nutritional Changes

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Robert Barrington

Increasingly individuals are realising the importance of good nutrition. Good nutrition not only improves physical performance, but also mental capacity and cognitive processes. Part of the reasons for the awakening with regard good nutrition is the large body of readily … Continue reading →

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Metabolic Profiles of Meat, Fish and Non-Meat Eaters

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Robert Barrington

It is becoming clear that the choice of diet made by the individual has a significant effect on health. In particular, clear differences in mortality and disease outcomes are present between those that consume a high quality diet and those … Continue reading →

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An Ounce of Prevention is Worth A Pound of Cure

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Robert Barrington

Nutrition is all about preventing ill health and disease. The most obvious examples of this are the nutritional deficiency diseases that result from intakes of essential nutrients that are too low. There exists a threshold for a number of dietary … Continue reading →

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More on the Causes of Obesity

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Robert Barrington

Obesity is associated with a number of diseases including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. These diseases represent a metabolic dysfunction that centres on the development of insulin resistance. The insulin resistant state defines the metabolic syndrome and increases the … Continue reading →

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Diet Quality Affects Cancer Risk

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Robert Barrington

There is a large body of evidence that high quality diets protect from disease. Put another way, there is a substantial body of evidence that low quality diets are a causative factor in disease. In particular, low quality Western type … Continue reading →

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A Core Diet of Healthy Basic Food

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Robert Barrington

Maintaining a high quality diet can be incredibly difficult in the modern Western World. Nearly every person eats a typical Western diet and most are content to consume low quality but tasty foods, often to the detriment to their health. … Continue reading →

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Targeted Nutrition

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Robert Barrington

Many people suffer from conditions that are not able to be diagnosed specifically by medical experts. Such idiopathic conditions are quite common in the Western nations and people often put them down to aches and pains that are associated with … Continue reading →

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