healthyperfdev The Healthy Performance team have won the 2015 Cherwell Small Business of the Year Award and were finalists for the Customer Service Award. The winners were announced at the prestigious awards event which was held in a lavish marquee amongst the glorious Oxfordshire countryside. The Award was sponsored by the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership and … Read more
With the British Summer threatening to give us all a few rays, us Brits never need much of an excuse to get the barbecue out, cook up a feast and ensure there’s a cool beer or a large glass of wine in hand. And for those who are calorie conscious, it can be tolerable to … Read more
Healthy Performance have been shortlisted as finalists at the Cherwell Business Awards for the Small Business Award Category (sponsored by The Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership) and, Customer Service Award Category (sponsored by Bicester Village) Healthy Performance made the final of the Small Business Award Category from a strong list of businesses across North Oxfordshire. We were able to demonstrate … Read more
The strength of a person’s grip may indicate how likely they are to suffer heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular problems, according to an extensive new study. The study, published in The Lancet, also found that grip strength is a stronger predictor of death than systolic blood pressure, and suggest that it could be used as … Read more
A small study in Spain found that a Mediterranean diet with extra nuts and olive oil might help improve memory in older adults. As always, the results will certainly require further research but the results sit nicely with previous research.. At Healthy Performance we’ve previously reported that a Mediterranean diet has been linked to … Read more
The background information Strokes are being heavily discussed in the media today as a leading charity in the UK, The Stroke Association has revealed new figures that highlights the number of people being afflicted by strokes is soaring. This rise is particularly stark amongst men in their 40’s and 50’s. The numbers are quite shocking … there … Read more
Scientists have discovered why you may experience that feeling of emptiness in your stomach after eating a fruit salad. In a small experiment, written for the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 24 volunteers consumed a sugary drink sweetened with fructose on one day and glucose on another day. Compared with glucose, the fructose … Read more
Up at Healthy Performance Towers, we came across a video on the BBC website yesterday about a new weight loss craze, waist training. Waist training has become a regular and controversial talking point on social media sites and its popularity has risen in part, thanks to celebrity endorsement from the likes of Kim Kardashian. What … Read more
The BBC Health News section carried a headline that caught our eye in the Healthy Performance office this week … “”Diet swap experiment reveals junk food’s harm to guts,” Researchers asked people to switch diets for two weeks – 20 US volunteers moved to a low-fat, high-fibre diet while 20 volunteers from rural Africa were … Read more
A controversial artificial sweetener is being removed from Diet Pepsi in the US amid consumer concerns about its safety. The decision to swap sweeteners comes as Americans consumers keep turning away from popular diet sodas. Coca-Cola have said that their sales volume for Diet Coke, which also uses aspartame, fell 5 percent in North America … Read more
The health pages of all of the major media outlets have gone into over drive in the last week about the report into weight loss and why scientists now believe that exercise plays an entirely trivial role in it. The report was published as an editorial in the British Medical Journal and the content appears to … Read more
Being obese is all down to bad diet rather than a lack of exercise, according to a trio of doctors who have reopened the debate about whether food, sedentary lifestyles or both are responsible for the obesity epidemic. In an article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, three experts said it was time to “bust … Read more
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