Nutrition

Thanks to Emily Briggs, final year medical student at the University of Birmingham, for putting this piece together. See Emily’s previous piece on cervical smear testing here. Table top sugar…

Thanks to Catarina Soares, medical student at the University of Nottingham, for putting this piece together. Read her previous piece about this misunderstanding around whether fruit is really ‘good or…

Thanks to Jenni Visuri, student on the Graduate Entry Medicine course at Oxford University, for putting this piece together. See Jenni’s previous piece on the relationship between soy and breast…

Thanks to Maeve Hanan, consultant dietician and health writer at DieticallySpeaking.com, for putting this piece together. Head to her bio at the bottom of the page to find her on…

The recent surge of interest into the role of diet in the development of chronic lifestyle disease has brought scrutiny onto the composition of diets in in Western industrialised countries,…

We know vitamins and minerals are good for us, actually they are essential for us and essential for life, but does more necessarily mean better health? In the UK, use…

Protein-rich and packed with essential vitamins and minerals, eggs are one of nature’s wonder foods, not to mention how versatile and relatively inexpensive they are. I’ve teamed up with British…

Thanks to qualified nutritionist Salma Dawood who studied Human Nutrition at the University of Dublin for researching and putting this piece together. Head to the bottom of the page to…

Thanks to Catarina Soares, Medical student at Nottingham University, for putting this piece together. Head to the bottom of the page to read a little more about Catarina! Diet-related myths…

It seems that our interest in food and our digestion has never been greater than it is now. It’s normal that every now and then, all of us might suffer…