Nutrition

The cutlery that you eat with affects how you perceive the taste of your food.

If your vegetables know what time it is they could be healthier for you.

Through boosting energy and breaking down fat, carnitine is useful for everyone with a fitness focus.

A protein rich breakfast is the key to stopping unhealthy snacking later in the day.

Nutrition is important when it comes to caring for your hair. If you are colouring it, straightening it, perming it or using a hair dryer you also increase your chances of hair loss. From my experience, I have found, despite popular naturopathic belief that most hair loss comes from inside, that what we do on the outside affects hair loss even more. Air conditioning, chemicals in shampoos and hair products, hair dyes, gels, sprays etc. all take their toll. Yes, food and illnesses do affect hair loss but don’t blame it all on your ill health if you are using the above toxic substances.

A US study has found that every item of supermarket food tested contained levels of plastic contaminants.

The colour of your mug affects the flavour of your hot chocolate.

Either people are overdoing the protein and exercise with imbalanced diet plans which risk messing up their hormone levels, thyroid and liver or, in an effort to lose weight; they do the opposite and don’t eat enough protein or even enough food, which slows down their metabolism. This means they lose even less weight and the body store fat and fluid thinking it is about to starve.

Adding an avocado to a hamburger reduces some of the harmful effects of the burger.

As we consume more than the planet can produce we have to consider future food options.

Via technology, marketing and government policy, the food chain is changing like never before. Here is an overview of its current state.

Countries that consume the most chocolate win more Nobel Prizes.