Vitamin D can be thought of like the MVP; you will find teeny receptors in the brain, skeletal muscle, our immune cells, and more! When it plays such wide-ranging roles throughout the body, it’s easy to see why most of us are recommended to supplement Vitamin D on a daily basis and why deficiency has been associated with depression to increased severity of respiratory infection!

Sweeteners are artificial products that mimic the sweet taste we love in sugar. It doesn’t, however, contain the same caloric content.  

To first understand how we have ended up in this situation, it pays to look at the evolution of taste.  

When we eat or carry out any function in our body, there is metabolic waste.  Think of it like a car engine.  You put fuel in, and then you need an exhaust to get rid of the waste fumes.  The alkaline diet is based on the idea that metabolic waste can be acidic, alkaline, or neutral.  If the metabolic waste is acidic, it can result in your blood becoming acidic and acidic blood is thought to result in disease. 

The alkaline diet proposes a range of foods to promote alkalinity in the blood, and therefore offset disease. But can this really be achieved?

For decades we’ve been told that cholesterol is the enemy, and if you are unlucky to be diagnosed with high levels, then we’re told we need to swap to all these fancy foods to help. 

Here at Instructor Live, we wanted to look at this idea in a little more detail. We want to know if cholesterol is as bad as we are led to believe and if we do need to keep those levels low, how do we do it?

We all want to optimise our health as much as possible, and we can feel a little betrayed by our bodies when we get sick.  For the most part, a few days of rest and filling up on chicken soup usually sees us through. But we’ve got to wonder, are there things we can do to help us not get sick in the first place?

The general consensus, no matter where you look is that a diet high in plant-based foods is good for us.  Some, therefore, choose to eat nothing but plant-based products opting for a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, but for others, this is a step they don’t want to make (for many reasons). For these, the flexitarian diet may be right up their street.  In a nutshell, the flexitarian diet is being vegetarian-ish.  It prioritises plant-based foods but gives a little wiggle room on the inclusion of meat products.

Would you be surprised to learn that when we analyse weight loss programmes over time, we find that most people regain the weight they lost?
It’s much better to make lifestyle changes; when and how you eat as well as how you move becomes part of your lifestyle – how you change in shape and size continues alongside this lifestyle. It’s much better to make lifestyle changes; when and how you eat as well as how you move becomes part of your lifestyle – how you change in shape and size continues alongside this lifestyle.

We’re all told to eat protein to build our muscles, but like everything in the human body, it really isn’t that simple.  As they are seemingly a large part of our body and function, it pays to look at them in a little more detail and see if there are lifestyle choices, we can make to nourish them properly. 

If you spend any time on social media, you’ll have likely come across some top tips to optimise your digestion, but sometimes we forget the basics.  So, we thought we’d go back to school (well, not quite, no one needs those bad hair day reminders) and look at the digestive system in all its glory. We’ll also consider why we should probably pay it a little more attention than we do, and some simple changes we can make to help it run as smoothly as possible.