Put simply fortified foods are when certain nutrients are added into them. This can be because its required by law (in the UK this applies to white bread) or voluntarily by the food manufacturer. Some of the most common examples of fortified foods are flour, spreads and cereal. This is because these foods are such...

In almost every post lately what I’m writing about seems to effect either leptin or ghrelin. So this post is mostly for reference. The reason they come up so often is they are the two key hormones regulating hunger. Ghrelin signals to our brain to increase appetite, while leptin is a major appetite suppressor and...

How's your sleep? It’s an area of our lives often overlooked. Feeling fatigued? Oh you need this supplement. A bit run down after burning the candle at both ends? Here’s another cup of coffee, power through!

We often hear the rhetoric “all diets fail”. Firstly, lots of diets are successful. Most people who have tried to lose weight have achieved at least some. Where the diet’s fail line comes from is that so many put the weight back on. Firstly that’s ok. This isn’t about shaming anyone for their size. Maybe...

There are a few reasons to consider diet breaks. One is simply because you need to stop dieting! Maybe for a few weeks, or a few months+ for some. The second is as a strategy to break up a dieting phase. Long term dieting has many negative effects. These include physiological, such as metabolic adaptation...

Amazing result from Mike on his 12-week diet cut. He came to me just over 3 months ago to help work out a plan for his diet. He wanted to go from 83kg to 76kg, to then build up strength to compete in the lower 74kg powerlifting class. Previously he’d always done his dieting phases...