Graze throughout the day and enjoy seeing your energy levels rocket

As National Fitness Week gets into full swing, former fast food junkie Simon Lovell - now a personal trainer with Fitness First and author of the new Lunch Box Diet - shares his own tips on dieting, eating when exercising and getting the most from your food. “Having been someone who has been addicted to unhealthy foods, I know what it can be like to get out of the trap,’’ said Simon. “But as soon as you start to feel the benefits of optimum nu... [more]

Go! New York Report: The Mediterranean Diet

Atkins, South Beach, low-carb, no sugar, you name it – there is a diet for every day of the week. However, there's another diet approved by nutritionists that's considered one of the absolute best diets out there for your heart health.

Evening Times

American doctors have revealed a new diet which is supposed to cut the risk of cardiac disease by a fifth if followed daily.

CaPre drug candidate shows promising result on CRP level reduction

Acasti Pharma Inc., a subsidiary of Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. reports significant results on the effects of its anti-dyslipidemic investigational drug candidate CaPre on C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, a biomarker of CardioVascular Disease risk (CVD) and associated with diabetes and obesity.

Low-carb diet beats low-fat in study

NEW YORK -- Over the long term, a low-carb diet works just as well as a low-fat diet at taking off the pounds -- and it might be better for your heart, new research suggests.

Q&A: Is Added Fiber Beneficial?

Q: I’m trying to follow a high-fiber diet and wondered if foods with added fiber have the same benefits as foods naturally high in fiber? A: As with most nutrition questions, the answer is: it depends. Fiber is a plant form of carbohydrate that our body’s digestive enzymes can’t break down. Since we can’t break it down, we can’t extract any energy from it, which means fiber has no calories by ...

Diets That Time Forgot

Recommended The Claim: on average our grandparents and great-grandparents had smaller waists and weighted significantly less. Could it be that even with all our modern exercise and nutritional science, we have overlooked something from yesteryear's simple principles of dieting? The Diets That Time Forgot is a six episode miniseries that originally aired on British television. It is presented as ...

Diets to your door: Do the latest home-delivery meal packages cut the mustard?

We asked Dr Denise Thomas to analyse eight different home-delivery diet packages, and rate them in terms of their overall healthiness and their ability to help you lose weight.

Research and Markets: Health and Wellness in Sweden

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/17abb2/health_and_wellnes) has announced the addition of the "Health and Wellness in Sweden" report to their offering. In Sweden an increasing number of consumers are switching from low-fat products to high-fat products in order to lose weight. The trend was already noticeable a ...

Tips for management of COPD

What is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States? Many would be surprised to learn that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is, and the number of people with COPD is increasing. According to the COPD Foundation, more than 12 million Americans are currently diagnosed with COPD and an additional 12 million may not realize their shortness of breath and coughing are in fact ...

Low-carb diet trumps low-fat on 'good' cholesterol

STEPHANIE NANO Associated Press NEW YORK -- Over the long term, a low-carb diet works just as well as a low-fat diet at taking off the pounds - ...