by Caroline Silk | Sep 21, 2015 | diet, weight loss
One of your body’s highest priorities is to maintain blood glucose (sugar) in a normal range at all times. Improper regulation can result in either hyperglycemia (your blood glucose is too high) or hypoglycemia (too low). Having blood glucose imbalances plays havoc on...
by Caroline Silk | Sep 14, 2015 | diet, Health Matters, weight loss
If your daily diet is full of processed food purchased from the middle of the supermarket – you know, aisle 2 through to 10 – then it’s probably lacking in fibre. Yes there will be some products boasting added fibre like cereal, but they’re more than likely...
by Caroline Silk | Sep 7, 2015 | diet, weight loss
It is funny how food groups can go in and out of food fashion! In the 70s ,FAT received the biggest bashing ever seen. Propelled by the Scarsdale Diet and a population wanting to embrace a new fad, food manufacturers decided to remove as much fat as possible from...
by Caroline Silk | Aug 25, 2015 | diet, weight loss
I am often asked about artificial sugars, with the implication being that surely they are OK to have – calorie free so why wouldn’t they be a good substitute? Well the word ARTIFICIAL should be enough of a red light when considering their nutritional status. I have...
by Caroline Silk | Aug 17, 2015 | diet, Health Matters, weight loss
It may have been how things were done when Mary Poppins was in charge, but we have probably taken our addiction to sugar just one spoonful too far! Our consumption of sugar is now not only from the sugar jar but it has found its way into too many foods on our...
by Caroline Silk | Aug 6, 2015 | diet, Health Matters, weight loss, Wellness
Sugar has been under scrutiny for sometime now… When we (me, you, the media, doctors, health professionals etc etc) talk about sugar, usually, all sugars are dumped into the one sugar bowl. There are however, many different type of sugars in our diets and each...
