Did you know that there are major discrepancies in the meaning of certain key words placed on food labels? For example take the following key words commonly found on food packaging, ‘flavour’ and ‘flavoured’, ‘juice’ and ‘juice drink’ and ‘light’ and ‘diet’. Although these words appear to be the same, they in fact contain very different meanings. Did you know that there are … [Read more...] about Not What is Says on the Tin: A Closer Look at Food Labelling
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Super Foods – Super You!
We all know that improving our diet can improve our health, helping us look and feel better. However an abundance of new research is demonstrating that with minimum effort we can make a good diet ‘really’ good simply by munching on specific ‘super foods’ on a daily basis. These foods are packed with nutrients powerful enough to increase physical performance, lower cholesterol, … [Read more...] about Super Foods – Super You!
Fancy a career in nutrition and dietary coaching?
On Saturday 12th December The Institute of Health Sciences (IHS) is holding a free 'taster' workshop for it's two new ITEC accredited certificate courses in Dietary Coaching: Nutrition & Health and Sports Nutrition. "Learn from an expert how food and lifestyle can be used to optimise health and manage disease. Includes personal health questionnaire, superfoods, meal … [Read more...] about Fancy a career in nutrition and dietary coaching?