Healthy weight loss

The Raw Food Diet – an overview

23 April 2014 by Catherine Saxelby

The Raw Food Diet – an overview

Over the years the Raw Food Diet has waxed and waned in popularity. It was around in the 1980s with Leslie and Susannah Kenton’s Raw Energy movement. This spawned several books about the advantages of a raw diet plus the usual accompanying recipe books. Now, some 30 years later, the Raw Food Diet is popular with a whole other generation of people looking for ways to stay trim. So what is it?

Paleo – a great place to start but needs a tweak

13 February 2014 by Catherine Saxelby

Paleo – a great place to start but needs a tweak

I’ve never been wild about the Paleo Diet, I must admit. It’s never seemed right that we humans haven’t ‘evolved’ from our...

Paleo Diet basics

10 February 2014 by Catherine Saxelby

Paleo Diet basics

The Paleo (Paleolithic) Diet is the modern equivalent to what our early hunter-gatherer ancestors ate. It's named for the Paleolithic...

Lemon Detox Diet Review

20 January 2014 by Catherine Saxelby

Lemon Detox Diet Review

The Lemon Detox Diet has been voted one of the worst diets in many surveys. It’s a silly, faddish semi-fast that’s been around...

Keep off the kilos when you travel

4 November 2013 by Catherine Saxelby

Keep off the kilos when you travel

In the October edition of our Foodwatch newsletter we looked at the fraught issue of weight management and travel. The topic was so...

Q. Should I cut out carbs after 6pm?

22 October 2013 by Catherine Saxelby

Q. Should I cut out carbs after 6pm?

The question in full: Q. Every second week or so, someone asks me this same question: "Should I avoid carbohydrates after 6pm (or...