by Fiona Kane | May 17, 2023 | General Health, Healthy Eating
We shouldn’t need to be told to walk more and eat better, should we? Reporting on nutrition and health studies can be weird sometimes. While it’s good news, if not great news that a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that a brisk...
by Fiona Kane | Feb 23, 2023 | General Health, Healthy Eating, Mind and Motivation
A question I was asked recently on 3AW radio. I believe that the rise of processed foods in recent decades with “strong flavours” is the reason fruit, vegetables and for some people, water, don’t seem to taste as nice anymore. When you have lots of junk in your diet,...
by Fiona Kane | Jan 10, 2023 | Diabetes, General Health, Healthy Eating, Heart Health, Toxic Ingredients
Researchers in Brazil estimated that in 2019, the deaths of around 57,000 Brazilian people between the ages of 30 and 69 were attributable to highly processed snacks. That amounted to nearly 22 per cent of deaths from preventable diseases among that age group, and 10...
by Fiona Kane | Jan 10, 2023 | General Health, Healthy Eating, Mind and Motivation
In a cohort study of 10 775 individuals, (published in JAMA Neurology on 4 December 2022), higher consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with a higher rate of global and executive function decline after a median follow-up of 8 years. The study...
by Fiona Kane | Sep 13, 2022 | General Health, Healthy Eating, Toxic Ingredients
Ultra-processed foods may be to blame Researchers find US adults who consume more ultra-processed food report more adverse mental symptoms More than 70 percent of packaged foods in the U.S. are classified as ultra-processed food and represent about 60 percent of all...
