We may need a couple of posts on food labelling. Lets start with the marketing companies use. How they advertise can mean you don’t always get what you think you are! High in Protein Protein is more trendy these days, as more people understand the benefits. What this has led to is a lot of...

The Mediterranean diet is one of the poster children for a healthy choice of eating patterns. This is largely true with the makeup of that type of diet. It is high in foods we know reduce the risk of chronic diseases (vegetables, whole grains, legumes, fruit), & features lower amounts of foods that we are...

Following on from my post on polyphenols it links closely with the reported health benefits from chocolate and cocoa. Cocoa is particularly rich in flavonoids, specifically flavanols, (also known as flavan-3-ols). This is where the bitter taste in dark chocolate comes from. A review by Katz et al. notes; Flavonoids have a number of properties...

What are they, and why are we interested? Polyphenols are a type of phytochemical and they are linked with a whole heap of health benefits. You find them in a wide range of plant-based foods; including fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, chocolate, coffee and more. Polyphenols have a few sub-classes, with flavonoids and phenolic acids...

Ever hear the carbs are the devil crowd pushing people to not eat fruit? Yep that’s a thing!Deductive Reasoning (stay with me) is when a conclusion follows from a premises. Here we have:Premise 1 – Sugar is badPremise 2 – Fruit contains sugarConclusion – Fruit is badThe problem here is that sugar is not actually...

The best diet? Sorry to break it to you, but there isn’t one. Let’s just look at that phrase for a moment. Your diet is simply what you habitually eat. But when people ask this question they are usually talking about dieting for weight loss. The most optimal diet (for health) is not the same...