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Someone new to resistance training recently asked me what they should eat after a workout.

I was actually quite impressed that the question was even asked, for it showed that this person at least had a basic understanding of the significant role food plays in the 20 to 30 minutes right after you’ve lifted your last weight.

The post-resistance workout meal is actually quite specific in terms Read the rest of this entry »

New research suggests that certain people are at a greater risk of developing anorexia due to the way their brains develop while they’re still in the womb.

Ian Frampton (honorary consultant in paediatric psychology at London’s Great Ormond Street hospital) and colleagues studied over 200 young women aged 12 - 25 who were being treated for anorexia.

As The Guardian newspaper explains:

70% of the patients had Read the rest of this entry »

There’s never going to be an easy time of year for dieters, and most of us have a love-hate relationship with popular holidays that are, it seems, an excuse to indulge. With Easter looming and chocolate eggs lining the shelves, dieting temptation seems to lie everywhere.

Here’s your guide to surviving Easter without putting on unwanted pounds - but without feeling that you’ve missed out, either.

1. Don’t Read the rest of this entry »

Amongst all the differing nutritional advice out there, one common factor stands out: eat more fruit and vegetables. Governments around the world recommend “five a day” (five portions of fruit and vegetables, rather than five of each).

But how much constitutes a “portion” and what exactly counts?

Here’s your easy guide to the five-a-day recommendation:

How Big Is A Portion?

One portion is defined as:
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No other vitamin has gotten as much press as vitamin D in the past 5 years. Most of the vitamin D literature however has focused on the adult and older adult population. A recent study presented at the American Heart Association scientific meeting has now shown that teens with low levels of vitamin D are at greater risk of high blood pressure, high blood sugar and metabolic syndrome.

The study, which analyzed more than 3500 adolescents Read the rest of this entry »

Flickr: SvadilfariWith Easter fast approaching and Peter Cottontail bearing down on us, Cadbury Crème Eggs, the famous chocolate eggs filled with sugary yolk-ish cream, are once again hitting supermarket shelves.

Like marshmallow Peeps, the eggs have earned a cult following, arguably edging out chocolate rabbits as the quintessential holiday treat, but some consumer groups aren’t sold on them.

In 2007, companies Read the rest of this entry »

IHRSA (International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association) held their annual conference this month - a monster of an affair which draws the who’s who of fitness equipment manufacturers, club owners and enthusiasts in general. Not surprisingly, computer-based fitness games and health data for the web stood out as big trends. One part irony, one part ingenuity, the health industry is using the very tools that are Read the rest of this entry »

Apologies for some recent outages. Unfortunately the software that Diet Blog runs on creates really big files for the user pictures (that appear next to comments). This rapidly chewed up my bandwidth allowance and the site went down. I’ve had to switch back to using Gravatar for commenter pictures (although your uploaded picture still displays on your profile page).

Sorry about this. Hopefully I’ll be able to come up with a better Read the rest of this entry »

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Basically the GI diet is eating foods that have a low GI value, when you eat this particular way, it takes longer for the food to be broken down in your body than it would do eating high GI foods instead.

Scientists have recently been wondering why this happens and think Read the rest of this entry »

Professor James O. Hill popularized the 10,000 step phenomenon - an idea that became an initiative of sorts, encouraging people to get at least 10,000 steps each day. Pedometers became popular gadgets, flying off of store shelves and making their way into boxes of Frosted Flakes (I won’t go there).

So we know approximately how many steps we need, but how fast we should be taking those steps to keep fit?
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