Diet Advice

The Pritikin Diet was developed by Nathan Pritikin about ten years ago before that of Dr. Dean Ornish. It is an extremely low-fat diet in which only 10 percent of calories are derived from fat with the rest being obtained from complex, unrefined carbohydrate such as vegetables, peas and beans, whole grains and fruits. Low-fat […]

Using research into the female biorythms, Body-clock Diet is a weight loss programme which is designed to fit in with the chemical fluctuations that occur in women’s bodies throughout the menstrual cycle. Recommended for: It is recommended for women who experience symptoms such as mood swings, food cravings, increase in appetite and fluid retention – […]

The Food Combining Diet is a 28-day weight loss programme developed from Dr Hay’s theories on managing food combination in order to eliminate the build-up of toxins on the body. It does not involve calorie counting. Recommended for: It is recommended for gradual weight loss and detoxification Not recommended for : It is not recommended […]

Food is fuel and food is fun. Low calorie ready-made meals are convenient but hardly inspiring. They are often low in vitamins and fibre and high in highly-processed carbohydrates that are converted into glucose very quickly. Eating convenience food like this means that your blood sugar takes a plunge very quickly after you’ve eaten it, […]

Several diseases are directly related to the straining and increased intra-abdominal pressure due to constipation. – hermorrhoids, hernias, varicose veins, and diverticula of the large bowel. By adopting Western eating habits, many Asians have begun to suffer from “Western” diseases caused by fiber-deficient diets. Modern refining processing very efficiently removes fiber by polishing rice, milling […]

Fiber aids on the elimination of cholesterol from the body via the bile in the intestinal tract. Without adequate dietary fiber, uneliminated cholesterol builds up in the body. The cholesterol concentration in the bile in the gall bladder may increase as much as tenfold. This predisposes cholesterol to crystallize, leading to the formation of cholesterol […]

Dr. Dean Ornish, a specialist in cardiac disease, was interested in the part played by diet in controlling heart and circulatory illness in severely affected patients. He devised a low-fat, mainly vegetarian diet for his heart patients, which often involved them eating greater quantities, but of different types of food, than they had consumed previously. […]

Diet Doctors used to believe that sugary and fatty foods were major triggers for acne, but now research is showing that it is not the food itself, but rather the way it interacts with our systems causes problems such as acne. One reason why sugary and fatty foods can cause acne are that they overload […]