by Sorcha | Nov 29, 2020 | Nutrition
Chocolate is the world’s most popular sweet treat (Szalay, 2018). Although most chocolate products contain high levels of sugar and saturated fat, some claims have been made that chocolate can be good for you. To all those chocolate lovers out there getting excited...
by Sorcha | Nov 25, 2020 | Nutrition
Over the years there have been many foods labelled as ‘Superfoods’. They come with longs lists of health claims and you find yourself being convinced that if you eat that food, you’ll be cured of everything. Sadly, a lot of the time these claims don’t hold up when...
by Sorcha | Nov 19, 2020 | Nutrition
Protein is what’s referred to as a macronutrient. The other macronutrients are carbohydrate, lipids (fat) and water. Protein is different from carbohydrate and lipids because it contains carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, whereas carbohydrate and lipids only...
by Sorcha | Nov 10, 2020 | Nutrition
For most people when you think about fibre, you think about constipation. Yes, fibre can help prevent constipation when included in the diet, but it has many more health benefits. It was found that if only 50% of the American adult population increased their dietary...
by Sorcha | Nov 5, 2020 | Nutrition
Fat is often seen in a negative light, when the fact is that we need fats. Fat have many important biological functions such as; Being a source of energy, 1g of fat provides 9Kcal, (although the body must use up more oxygen to burn fat for energy than if it was...
