It takes 2 or 3 attempts of trying to follow different diets before you realise that changing your eating habits and achieving your health goals is not that easy. There are many reasons for this – unrealistic expectations, lack of experience and understanding of diet and nutrition, random picking of popular diets, blindly following social media advice on healthy eating. Here’s a some of the most common mistakes: Too Much Too Soon | Not Doing Enough | Giving Up When You Experience Side Effects Exotic Super Foods | Diet Hopping | Miracle Foods Too much too soon. The mo ..read more

Modern diet consisting mainly of refined carbs (rice, pasta, bread), sugary foods and processed meat leads to constipation. If you eat three substantial meals per day and have only one bowel movement – this is constipation. You might not feel any immediate negative health effects but in the long run waste and toxins will continue to accumulate in the small and the large intestine and will cause many health problems. People with a healthy, perfectly working digestive system who eat natural fibrous food have 2-3 quick and effortless bowel movements per day about meal times. The Bristol ..read more

Losing weight is not the main objective of eating for better health. Losing weight is just one of the many positive results of changing your “normal” diet to eating natural, mostly plant based, wholegrain foods, fruits and vegetables. Reducing the amount you eat, calorie counting, having regular meals, drinking more fluids and exercising more, may not be enough for long term weight loss and it will not necessarily make you diet much healthier. Give your digestive system time to rest and recover. If you regularly overeat your digestive system needs a lot of energy to digest and elimina ..read more

From most people changing diet and giving up unhealthy addictive foods is not easy. Everybody, including health coaches, nutritionists, dieticians and healthy eating gurus, has some sort of psychological food dependency. Just ask yourself a couple of questions to find out if you have a food dependency. When you are in a restaurant with an ‘all you can eat’ buffet how much food do you put on your plate? How many times do you go back to refill your plate? What kind of food do you choose? What are addictive foods? For most people these are: sugar, coffee, chocolate, cheese, fried foods ..read more

There is so much misleading, vague, conflicting and potentially harmful dietary information that making an informed decision about eating for better health can be very difficult. Deciding whether the diet you follow is suitable for you, beneficial to your health and long term well-being boils down to just two main principles: The first rule of healthy eating: Any diet should be nutritionally complete; it should satisfy all your individual requirements for energy, nutrients, vitamins and minerals. Your body should be able to extract and absorb all the nutrients, vitamins and minera ..read more

When we start looking for a healthy diet we always have some heath goal in mind. It can be different for different people – from something very vague:  “I have to stop eating all this junk” to dealing with a specific health condition – a skin problem or lowering cholesterol level. You might follow some popular diet for a few weeks or even months, but it is very unlikely that you will reach your health goal. This is because no ready-made diet, eating tips or meal plans take into consideration your personal dietary needs. There is only one Healthy Diet that will work for you. It is your p ..read more

When we think about what food to buy we very rarely think how harmful those brightly coloured pre-packaged, canned and processed foods can be, how much damage they can do to our health and our bodies.   Most people have some general understanding about healthy diet – fruit and vegetables are good for us and processed junk food is not. Some people check food labels for sugar and salt content while others are more interested in fat content and calories. We also know that food with a lot of additives is not good for us but we eat it anyway.   Most of us know that eating too much sugary food ..read more

I accidentally found the best piece of nutritional advice in small print on the back of a packet of strawberries. Here it is – A healthy diet consists of lots of fruit and vegetables, it is based on starchy foods such as whole grain bread, pasta and rice and is low on fat, salt and sugar. Very clear, concise and easy to understand. It reminded me of the famous life advice – Don’t worry, be happy.  Sounds wonderful but how do you get there? Start with assessing what you eat now. The first step on the way to your individual healthy diet starts with assessing your current eating habits ..read more

Your body has amazing built in mechanisms for deciding what and when to eat – hunger and appetite. These natural mechanisms for regulating food intake can be easily distorted by addictive foods and sugary snacks with flavour enhancers and additives. Foods with additives are designed to be super tasty and to trick you brain into believing that you are hungry. With addictive foods it is really easy to choose what to eat – if you like cheese – you can eat cheese anytime. And if you like ice cream – you can eat chocolate ice cream any time. The same goes for pizza, chips, French fries, cak ..read more

To change your normal diet and start eating for better health is easy. Start with what you eat now, remove all processed and pre-packaged foods with additives and chemicals. Eat mostly plant based natural products and whole grains. Gradually minimise the proportion of animal proteins (including dairy products) and increase the proportion of fresh fruit and vegetables in your diet. Do not overeat. Cut back as much as you can or better completely eliminate completely all addictive products (sugar, coffee, cheese, chocolate) from your diet. With this healthy diet you will stop adding to ..read more