Nutrition

Olive fruit and oil are consumed by millions of people every day and the use of olive leaf extract to treat disease and maintain health is growing in popularity.

The faster your weight loss, the less discerning your body is about what it burns for energy. This means that when dieting, you may be losing a startling 60 per cent muscle and only 40 per cent fat. Here’s how to avoid this dieting trap!

In recent years, glycaemic index has become a buzz term to help identify foods that help regulate your blood sugar levels. To enjoy their full benefits, you need to understand that not all GI foods are created equal.

By understanding what makes different diet regimes healthy or otherwise, you can pick and choose the best nutritional ideas to incorporate into your own eating style.

Understanding the link between brain chemistry, emotions and cravings can help you develop effective strategies to reduce the urge to reach for comfort food.

Incontinence may be a taboo subject, but it’s also a very common problem, so many people will be relieved to find there are natural ways to combat this potentially life-changing condition.

Lunch is something of a balancing act: you need nutrition for the rest of the day but don’t want to weigh yourself down. Here are some tips and delicious recipes to get the balance right.

Lentils are a healthy, low-calorie food that’s inexpensive and can be the basis for delicious dining.

Rates of autism are on the rise. Yet, where once the condition was seen as a psychiatric disorder, a biomedical approach is proving dietary intervention can be the basis of real change for this troubling condition.

The lemon is undoubtedly the most widely grown fruit and has the greatest number of uses, including therapeutic, medicinal and cosmetic. Find out how this wonder fruit can enhance your wellbeing.

As a technology for food processing, food irradiation is the exposure of food to gamma rays from a radioactive source. What are the health benefits and risk factors associated with irradiated foods?

Weigh out the pros and cons of drinking alcohol and learn how it can really affect your health.