Nutrition

This piece it taken from the Autumn 2018 issue of ARCADIA magazine. The edition is available in over 70 retail outlets worldwide and you can also order your copy online.…

People may choose to avoid dairy for various reasons, such as: dietary preference, an allergy or intolerance to dairy products, or to promote animal welfare. This article will look at…

In the year 2016-2017 almost 620,000 people were admitted to hospital in the UK with a health problem associated with obesity (1). Being obese increases the likelihood that a person…

Thermogenic’s, more commonly known as fat-burners, claim to work in various ways either by; increasing metabolic rate or energy expenditure, impairing fat absorption, or increasing fat oxidation during exercise, and…

Is the Keto diet worth the hype? The ketogenic or ‘keto’ diet is becoming increasingly popular. This is often promoted as a way to lose weight, boost health, and even…

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,…