Category Archives: nutrition

Happy New Year!

This week I’ve been talking to my personal training clients about what they want to achieve this year. Everyone is going to have different goals but for most it will involve losing weight or getting fitter.  A lot of my clients that I’ve spoken to over the past week feel bad about what they’ve eaten over Christmas and the lack of exercise that they’ve done. Christmas is a time for enjoying yourself and relaxing but this doesn’t mean that you have to throw yourself into the New Year by going crazy at the gym 7 days a week [...]

Earlier on this month I spent a few days in Mallorca. My family have a place in a beautiful village up in the mountains and we go there frequently throughout the year. Every time I’m there I realise just how different and healthy the lifestyle is over there. Firstly when we’re there we do so much more walking. There are a lot of roads within the village that you can’t get a car down easily which means that people tend to walk to most places. In fact, there’s a 1km walk from where we park our car up to the [...]

It’s a common misconception that fats (especially saturated ones) are the cause of the sudden rise in heart disease and obesity. Consequently people began eating less saturated fat but the number of cases of heart disease and obesity continued to rise – how can it be then that eating fat causes people to develop heart disease and become obese?

Research has now shown that there is no correlation between saturated fat and heart disease and is instead indicating that sugar is the problem. We should be eating good fats like avocados, nuts, seeds and meat in order to keep our immune [...]