diet

Have you ever considered what an un-healthy diet can do to your heart? Years of eating processed and junk-foods can have a more serious impact than you may be aware of. The heart is an extremely important organ and needs to be treated well…

It’s well established that a diet of fatty and sugary foods isn’t good at all for your physical wellness, but a new study has shown that these foods can harm your mental wellbeing. If you’re on a diet, this can cause chemical changes in the…

Depending on how much you know about type two diabetes, you may be aware that most diabetics will  avoid sweets, pastries and all things sugary like the plague. Oddly, they'll also carry hard candies around with them eating them as a way of…

Ensuring that your heart is healthy should be a concern for everyone who takes their health and wellbeing seriously. The heart plays a crucial role in your physiological processes, and is one of the most hard-working organs in the body.…

If you want to lose weight, the best way is to reduce your calorie intake by looking closely at your diet and nutrition. The benefits that weight loss will have to your wellness and wellbeing are numerous, and by reducing your calorie…

If you want to lose stubborn belly fat and improve your wellness, you need a plan of attack and the right tools to achieve it. Also, you need to know your enemy. Going to war for your wellbeing means coming up against two…

Unfortunately, when you approach weight loss you tend to simply cut out all the ‘fattening’ foods that you are eating and drinking, but these are probably the foods that you love the most. Also, it doesn’t benefit your wellness at all in…

If you’re aiming to eat a balanced diet, rich in all of the necessary nutrients for a healthy body, it’s important to know exactly what your body needs in order to work effectively. A balanced diet consists of plenty of fruit and…

When you have type 2 diabetes, healthy eating is one of the best ways to manage it, especially because weight loss, calorie cutting and following the right kind of diabetes diet will go a long way toward helping your overall wellbeing.…

One of the main issues with trying to lose weight through dieting is not enjoying the things you eat on that diet. It’s all very well and good aiming to lose X amount of weight in X amount of time, but once you get to your target are you…

For the sake of your wellbeing when you have diabetes, the right diet is crucial. With the right eating plan you can maintain stable blood sugar levels and preserve your overall wellness, and it’s not as difficult or unusual as it seems. A…

For a number of reasons, women always seem to want bigger breasts - society has placed importance on having big breasts, and on larger breasts being associated with beauty. It’s no wonder that so many women feel insecure about their bodies.…

Let’s be honest – looking at celebrity weight loss photos is a secret guilty pleasure for most of us! Studying those before and after photos and reading about how they achieved this – be it through fitness, crazy diets or surgery – is quite…

As a parent, you want to look after your child’s wellbeing, both physically and emotionally, but if your child shows depressive symptoms decisions like whether or not to turn to prescription drugs can be scary, and they often turn out to be…

Many respected wellness experts across the scientific community have praised the Mediterranean diet for its wellbeing-boosting protection against the most threatening diseases such as cardiovascular disease and tumours. However, this eating…

Few of us manage to avoid the indulgences of the holiday season, and January tends to bring a frenzy of detox and slimming techniques. We all know that living on extremes can be destructive to our wellness, but who wants to miss out on the…

Type Two Diabetes is a condition which is wide spread but still not fully understood, it’s a potent reminder that medicine is still advancing and that we by no means know everything.  Though ¾ type two diabetics are also obese this isn’t…

Juicing is all the rage these days, and for very good reason. Whether you’re interested in using juice for detoxing, or simply as a daily nutritional supplement, your wellbeing is in for a serious boost! Juicing is a way to select exactly…

At this time of year, there’s a whole bunch of upcoming events that you need to look fabulous for, but not very much time in which to get your wellbeing in shape. However, before you panic and attempt the latest fad diet, relax. You can…

Our bone health may suffer more if we also have wellness issues linked with digestion, say researchers. Another reason why a stomach problem that prevents us absorbing nutrients plays such an important part in osteoporosis has been…

Research has found that a diet low in fat will help people to lose around three and a half pounds without any other form of dieting. Those who took part in the trial found that they lost weight around their waistline as well as lowering…

Our modern lifestyles mean that time is often limited. The first aspects of your life to suffer are exercising and eating a balanced diet, as these are the easiest elements to neglect and save time with. It’s during this period of fast…

This is the first in a two step guide centred on the very best ways to set up and maintain a diet to control your diabetes. Type two diabetes can be managed through the use of diet, exercise and blood-sugar monitoring, it's important to…

Welcome to part two of my diabetic diet dissection. I've already looked at things like the importance of breakfast and how high fibre content can lead to low blood-sugar. This final section will look more at what you can do as opposed to…

You may think of it as an unhealthy side dish when you order a Chinese, but not only is sea weed a nutrition-packed way to enhance your wellbeing, it may also promote weight loss. Wellness writer Tamra Mercieca, founder of Naked Therapy,…

Everyone gets a little bit angry sometimes, but do you have to? Perhaps you can’t obliterate anger completely, but knowing what causes anger, and how you can control it, can lead to better wellness and an overall sense of wellbeing.…

You may want to lose weight for mental and emotional wellness reasons, such as boosting your self-esteem, but a healthy diet and exercise programme can also protect the wellbeing of your body as there are illnesses associated with being…

It’s a common misconception that losing weight needs to be an arduous task where you diet consists of bland salads and raw vegetables. It definitely isn’t the case – there are ways of maintaining a delicious yet healthy diet and shifting…

As a woman in her 40s, the wellness situation starts to look a whole lot different. Your sexual health needs kicking into shape, you’ve got no energy for your hectic lifestyle and you have aches and pains you never knew a person could have.…

When you turn 50, you start blaming any wellness problem to turning “the big 5-0”. Sexual health and vigour not what it once was? It’s because you’re 50. Can’t run around after the kids anymore? Must be your 50s. While it’s true that each…