5 bowel cancer warning signs you should never ignore
Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK, with more than 41,000 people diagnosed every year. The good news is, bowel cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is treatable and [...]
Blog special – New Scientist article on “Gut Thinking”
On the 21st Nov 2015, the “New Scientist” published an article called “Gut Thinking”. We have summarised the main points here and hope you enjoy it!
Body weight: what causes hunger and why is it important to maintain a low body weight?
Everyone gets hungry from time to time. And some people get hungry more often than others. In this article I hope to explain why people get hungry, from a scientific point of view. The brain is [...]
Body weight: what makes people fat?
In order to survive, people eat. With such a large variety of goods to choose from, most people do not go hungry. Why is it, though, that 10 chocolate bars will make you fatter than eating [...]
Delicious Super Healthy, Super Low-Cal Triple Chocolate Chunk Muffins
Sometimes it feels as if being careful with your diet means you can’t eat anything decent. It isn’t true. Here are some delicious muffins for you to try. As they say, when the going gets tough, [...]
Forty years ago the British physiologist, John Yudkin, wrote a book which became a classic. It was called Pure, White and Deadly.It argued that sugar was bad for us. That was bad for his [...]
