Written in collaboration between Jacob and J-BOT (our AI assistant)
For decades, saturated fat has been vilified as a nutritional enemy, accused of causing heart disease and other health problems. However, recent research has challenged this long-standing belief, leaving us to wonder: Is...
Written in collaboration between Jacob and J-BOT (our AI assistant)
In the world of nutrition, fats have often received a bad reputation. For years, people have been conditioned to believe that fat is the enemy, leading to weight gain and various health issues. However, recent research has shed...
Training is only part of the process in improving your athletic performance. Training breaks down and damages your body. To achieve any improvement in performance you must do more than train, you must recover.
I’m a firm believer in maximising your diet before ever supplementing....
In 2014, I got really sick. I was so burnt out I literally couldn’t get off the floor. I followed all the recommended guidelines for physical activity and the healthy food pyramid. But ultimately, I was doing too much. Stress, it seemed, trumped all. But some foods weren’t helping....
By Jacob Andreae
Most people say they would feel content to live anywhere from 80-120 years of age. However, it’s living healthy and disease-free that most people desire rather than number of years. Diet and exercise have shown to play a small part in slowing down ageing, but it’s...
By Jacob Andreae
What you think about — everything from the food you eat to the stress you experience — directly influences how your body responds. Even doing all the right things for your health may be undermined by simply thinking negatively about them. Positive thinking is a key...
By Jacob Andreae
The dietary supplement industry is a billion dollar industry. Supplements can provide you with a sense of security against a less-than-perfect diet, and make you feel like you are giving your body all that it needs. But the truth is, this reductionist approach to food...
By Jacob Andreae
There is currently so many milk alternatives on the market. Soy, almond, cashew, macadamia, oat, rice, coconut, flax, hemp, and of course, the O.G… cow! There’s even such as thing as spider milk. It’s not on the market and you can’t buy it, but it is a...
Over time, eating junk food can make you sick. The trans fats, sugars and preservatives added to food builds up and your body can’t function properly. But the other stuff in foods that can make you sick is bacteria. And this can be found in “healthy” food.
We might think...
Fasting has been a part of religious practice for thousands of years. But in the past five years, it received mainstream popularity on the back of animal studies showing that skipping meals had health benefits in those who are overweight.
I started intermittent fasting following the 16:8...
We spend so much time, energy and money on food, shouldn’t we be enjoying it? Mindful eating is a strategy to be fully present with your senses during the process of eating in order to improve your relationship with food.
When doing research for this article, I discovered that this is...
Pudding is synonymous with Christmas. But it is traditionally unhealthy and can unwrap your health goals quicker than my 4 kids opening presents from Santa on Christmas morning.
My grandmother has been making our family's traditional English Christmas pudding, as given to her by her...
