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Cabbage Soup diet
Celebrity followers: Jaime Pressly and Sarah-Michelle Gellar This diet isn’t intended to be followed long-term, but only for 7 days, and ideally is used as a kick-start to a longer term weight loss ...Atkins diet
Celebrity followers: Halle Berry and Jennifer Aniston. The Atkins diet has received praise and criticism in equal measure. The main aspect of Atkins is the intense reduction of carbohydrates- in the f...Palaeolithic diet
Celebrity followers: Demi Moore and Uma Thurman The Palaeolithic diet harks back to our distant ancestors, and urges us to eat a natural, omnivorous diet, which means no processed food, no sauces and ...Fight osteoporosis with . . . a glass of wine
This is the umpteenth story about the benefits of consuming alcohol. Now it appears that a glass of wine each day fights osteoporosis. Researchers from the University of Anglia and Kings College, ...Chocolate lowers female stroke risk
You don’t need to have known me for long to know that I’ll embrace any positive chocolate-related research with open arms (and, more importantly, an open mouth), so you can only imagine my...Nagging won’t make your little ones eat their veg
US research indicates that repeatedly telling your children to eat their greens does more harm than good, and can actually foster negative responses to foods. Their study shows that toddlers are more ...It’s not just any broccoli, it’s M&S’s super broccoli
A new form of super broccoli that fights heart disease and cancer goes on sale in M&S outlets across Britain today. The vegetable, which has been developed by British scientists, looks the same as...Consumers duped by health drinks that ‘don’t work’
A Which? report claims that millions of consumers are being tricked by costly drinks (such as probiotic drinks) that actually provide no benefits. Pop into your local Tesco (or any other supermarket f...The sweet secret to a slimmer figure
Scientists from Yale University have found that eating fresh fruit and vegetables will stop you from snacking on less healthy options. When our supply of glucose (a type of sugar used as energy for th...Is chocolate as good as exercise?
Following a recent article, ‘Chocolate may protect the brain and heart‘, it would seem that there’s even more research on the benefits of chocolate eating (I don’t know about y...
