Category: Diet

There are many schools of thought concerning the diet needed to manage some health conditions.  Take osteoarthritis as one such condition.  Instead of sitting in a chair all day, bemoaning the lack of mobility or the pain, as old folk used to be known for in previous generations, the new thinking now is to look…

There are many buzz words surrounding the world of fitness and food intake – and the results of both.  We do hear the titles dietician and nutritionist a great deal, especially on radio and tv, in the media generally as families take their advice on a very regular basis.  There is an essential difference between…

There is no doubt that the older woman needs to keep on top of her carb intake more carefully than most of them consider.  Going out with a social group, it’s facinating to watch the meal choices arrive and hear the lame sxcuses for the mass of bread products, or pizza with big piles of…

Now that the christmas and new year festive season has disappeared from our minds, many folk are still living with the consequences of all that enthusiastic scoffing of the carbohydrate laden mince pies, marzipan and icing covered fruit cakes; chocolate and of course, pretzels, crisps and all other manner of svoury snack.  It is so…

Having just returned from a splendid holiday over the christmas and new year, I can definitely say, hand on heart, that when you eat proper food, it makes for much easier slimming afterwards!    I was actually away on a cruise and throughout the couple of weeks, I only had two bread rolls and only two…

I have found in the last few months that the easiest way to lose excess kilos is to stick fairly rigidly to a lower carbohydate intake.  I had never really thought about carbs before a relative explained the significance of the keto diet and I had therefore never actually appreciated how many carbs I was…

The very word diet is enough to put some folk into a state of depression that is hard to shake off.  Not everybody can just look at their diet and adjust it to be healthier – their emotional tie to food is overwhelming.  I have found with many of my pals that they just cannot…