Food is not just fuel for the body. It also affects our minds and brings us a certain amount of pleasure, and that pleasure has a physical response. Whenever we eat something we really like, for example a slice of chocolate cake, our brain releases pleasure hormones like dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps…
Not everybody can cook healthy meals all the time. Some of us travel, others live with family members and having a special menu is not an option and others simply don’t have time to cook. That however doesn’t mean you can’t eat healthily. Let’s establish, for a moment, a baseline for healthy eating, There are…
Everyone feels hungry. A lot of us try to keep fit and keep an eye on our nutrition. In a perfect world our bodies would be finely-tuned machines that would let us know it’s time to eat as we begin to run low on energy and would then tell us to stop when their ‘tank’…
There are three types of Diabetes: Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease where the pancreas produces very little insulin or no insulin at all. Type 2 diabetes is, largely a lifestyle disease, found mainly in adults as they get older. Gestation diabetes is developed by pregnant women and it usually goes away after birth. This…
Bacteria is not a word we commonly associate with anything good. That is about to change. The relatively new microbiome science is working to uncover the effects of an unseen and very difficult to study ecosystem made up of trillions of microorganisms that live inside the human gut. Freaky as this may sound it is…
Food is the energy we put inside our body to help it power its processes, build muscle and carry out essential repairs. To suggest that taking this away is a good thing seems counter-intuitive, yet this is exactly what scientific studies tell us need to happen. To understand why and why we benefit, we must…
We’ve been told to “eat our greens” for so long when we were kids that growing up has become the moment when we can just eat anything we like and not give anyone any account of it. Unfortunately science has sided with the wisdom of the past and “eating our greens” has become a way…
Every fast has to be exited properly so as not to negate its positive effects on the body and mind. For maximum results the rule of thumb is to double the time of the fast and end it gracefully, gradually introducing food back into your system. This will prime the body, help you re-seed it…
When it comes to settling the issue about protein, its various sources and the amounts we need in order to build skeletal muscle there are four key questions that truly matter: Which source of protein is better for muscle? Which source of protein is better for health? Which source of protein is better for longevity?…
When it comes to coffee, a beverage we’ve been drinking since the 15th century there are three simple questions that matter: Can caffeine boost your workout? Will caffeine improve your endurance? Does caffeine create any health issues? Luckily, countless people have consumed an enormous amount of coffee under observation so we have some really good…
