Figures released by the Cancer Research UK this week show a huge 45 per cent rise in the number of cases of cancer caused by excess weight in just two decades. On current trends, nearly 3 in 4 adults will be overweight or obese by 2035 – obesity is on course to become “the new normal”! The knock on effect of … Read more
The obesity epidemic is a phenomenon that most of us are aware and we are fed horrifying predictions through the media. However, recently published number do paint a shocking picture … 25% of adults are obese in Britain — that is 12 million people — that number in the 1970’s was less than 3%. If the … 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 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
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
There is an interesting piece on the Daily Telegraph website this morning. Francoise Wilhelmi de Toledo is a renowned medical director at the Buchinger Wilhelmi Clinic. A lot of focus in her role is around the management of diseases including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and cancer. Inevitably, a lot of attention is around diets … Read more
New research from Korea has revealed that drinking a few cups of coffee a day may help people avoid clogged arteries – a known risk factor for heart disease. The Korean researchers studied more than 25,000 male and female employees who underwent routine health checks at their workplace. The employees who drank a moderate amount of … Read more
As the British Heart Foundation’s ‘National Heart Month’ comes to an end in February, it is worth highlighting that the integral connection between diet and heart health. Strategies such as watching your weight, keeping your total fats and saturated fats down and cutting down on salt intake have all become well known dietary approaches to … Read more
Tough new controls must be introduced worldwide to stop commercial companies marketing unhealthy foods and drinks which make children overweight and stunt their growth, say some of the world’s leading obesity experts. No country has yet reversed its obesity epidemic, they point out in a major new series of six papers in the Lancet medical journal. … Read more
You may have seen the recent advertising campaign for the new Change4Life campaign, Sugar Swaps which was launched by Public Health England Sugar Swaps encourages parents to cut down the amount of sugar their children consume by making one or more simple swaps. Some of the statistics taken from recently published data is shocking – … Read more
Leading researchers have warned that increasing numbers of women are cutting back on food to drink wine – a problem that has been termed ‘drinkorexia’. Labels that detail the calories in bottles of alcoholic drinks are encouraging people with eating disorders to swap food for drink, psychologists say. People who are obsessed with ‘calorie counting’ … Read more
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