Following on from Fran’s post about Subway being healthy (read it here), I thought I would let you know the other reasons why we avoid bread when following the real food plan. Along with dairy, removing wheat / gluten products from an eating plan causes the most psychological problems for our members. Bread and cereals have become so ingrained in our culture that people have panic attacks when it is even suggested that they are avoided for … [Read more...]
Subway – healthy eating??
June 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
Have you seen the latest Subway ad campaign? If not I’ll briefly describe it for you. They have a couple of Olympic athletes, an athlete and a boxer, stating what their favourite Subway sandwich is. The message implicit in the ad is that Subway sandwiches are healthy and this is backed up by the current TV campaign featuring the same athletes. The problem I have with this is that by no stretch of the imagination is a Subway sandwich … [Read more...]
Summer Smoothie
May 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I hope you have been enjoying the fantastic weather we've been having recently and keeping your fluid levels topped up. We are currently putting together our summer cookbook and I've been tweaking the 'juices, smoothies and refreshers' section this morning. One of the most common things we hear in this weather is that water can be boring to drink on it's own, I'll offer some more solutions to this later in the week but for a quick fix for … [Read more...]
Improved Health = Fat Loss
March 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I'm currently on the beautiful island of Phuket in Thailand working on my health and nutrition project - The Real Food Plan with some of the UK's finest health and fitness coaches and personal trainers. In the health, fat loss and fitness world there is an absolute minefield of information about nutrition and diets. It is confusing as a personal trainer and somebody who works with this stuff every day; I can only imagine how hard it must be … [Read more...]
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