It’s important to understand the role nutrition has to play in your workout wellness. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned athlete, eating the right foods – and at the right times – is vital to your wellbeing; making all the difference in how you perform, recover and improve. This means you need to attain […]

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These days, most of us are working a nine to five work day and struggle to keep on track with healthy eating habits. There’s always another lunch meeting, a stressful deadline, or that well-meaning colleague who brings in pastries in the morning, and suddenly your diet is out of the window. While sometimes you need […]

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With September comes a new time of busyness. The kids are starting school, the shops are gearing up for Christmas and you’re just trying to keep things together on a day-to-day basis. With all that going on, diet and nutrition wellness goes out the window, but just because bikini bodies and summer salads seem like […]

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There are multiple wellness-boosting properties in coffee, but – let’s be honest – that’s not why you drink it! Sure, studies have shown that a diet containing moderate amounts of coffee can prevent certain diseases, such as breast cancer, but the real reason people are drinking this product everyday is for the caffeine boost. You […]

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There’s such a moreish quality to crisps – let’s face it, you can’t just have one! Pringles really hit the nail on the head with the slogan ‘Once you pop, you can’t stop,’ but this adage can have consequences for your wellbeing, as well as your diet. Part of the reason why so many of […]

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Lunch breaks are an endangered species in this country; 60% of us don’t take a lunch break at all, and the rest that do rarely take a full hour to focus on nutrition, relaxation and nothing else. The average UK worker takes a lunch break of about 29 minutes, and don’t pretend you don’t spend […]

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As more people pick and snack their way through the day, instead of sitting down for three square meals, the amount of energy Americans get from their snacks has doubled in the last 30 years. This is according to an analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) data, which revealed that the percentage […]

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Fiona Oakes has been a vegan since she was six years old, and has just won the women’s title in the North Pole Marathon. This is an event in which runners compete in conditions as low as -30C, and a medical team is on standby for frostbite and marshals keep an eye out for polar […]

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It’s pretty obvious why we love to snack so much; it’s convenient. Without even thinking about it, you can go from hungry to satisfied in two minutes, simply by grabbing a bag of crisps or reaching for the ice cream tub and a spoon, but how can you make snacking more wellness-centred? With a little […]

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If your favourite sweet or chocolate bar has a green nutrition label, it may make you think that it’s healthier than ones with a red or white label – even if they contain the same calories. This is according to a new study published in the journal Health Communication, whose author, Jonathon Schuldt, has now […]

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