Warning: language. Cancer is big business. I know that’s off-putting, but it’s true, and it’s really sad. All you need to do is speak to someone who is suffering from the disease, or search ‘cancer and diet’ online to know that there are a ton of cancer nutrition-related websites spewing the worst sort of ‘you’ll…
Eating Positive at the Barilla Pasta World Championships *I have been sent to Italy by Barilla for the Pasta World Championships but as always, all opinions are my own. There are a lot of eating-associated ‘rules’ right now. No gluten. No dairy. No carbs. No sugar. No No No. I don’t think though that eating…
The harder you work out….the more weight you gain? What? The point of this post isn’t to discourage you from being active, so please don’t go there. Exercise is hugely important for health and wellbeing, and seriously – I have zero idea how I would manage my stress without activity. I don’t even want to…
It’s unfortunate that I even have to write this post at all, because in a perfect world, no one would be trying to scam people using fear mongering as bait. Just five short minutes on social media will make you realize that there’s a world of nutrition ugliness out there in the form of fad…
There’s been a recent rise in what I’d call ‘diet radicalization’: Extreme diets with obsessive followers who have a disdain for conventional medicine and nutrition science, plus no credible research or proof at all that these diets are even efficacious or, for that matter, safe in the long-term. Welcome to the post-truth era, diet version:…
I keep waiting for the concept of ‘cheat days’ to go away, but sadly, they’re as sticky as tar on a hot day. Search #cheatday on Instagram, and 3.1 MILLION posts pop up. So yeah, it’s still on for cheat days. I’ve never liked the word ‘cheat day’, and I also don’t like the concept…