Hi Tangerine, hope you are well! I wonder, as you think of your name, how many vitamins and minerals there are in a tangerine, and also the effects of the glucose and fructose from them? I like tangerines, they're food to go in their own wrapper, and come without pips!! My friend and peer Adam Eason...

Just been keeping current with my studies, and remember reading this last night in a Biochemistry text, so went and found it. It kinda sums up the advice: "So, if an athlete wishes to 'fat burn', they should attempt to keep insulin concentrations low, or else they may be wasting their time! Thi...

Hey Mamina, hope you are well! Unfortunately metabolism is not very well understood generally. Metabolism is "all the chemical reactions that take place in our body". The reactions use energy, and this helps dictate how much energy we use in our bodies, and drives our behaviour to conserve...

I wouldn't touch any weight loss products or weight loss medication with a barge pole. I regularly approach such manufacturers and ask them for the evidence and efficiacy of their products. It is a sorry tale to tell. In respect to the multi-level marketing replacement shake businesses I have spoken...

Hi! I love this topic! There are so many complete myths out there. Mostly perpetuated by supplement companies and the media. If you are eating regular meals there is very little that you need to ingest to improve your work out, even at a high level of competitive performance. Electrolyte drinks are ...

Hi, I wouldn't recommend any 'diet' for weight loss, for the reasons I mention in my post on yo-yo dieting. Everyone is an individual, and the approach that works for one will not necessarily work for another. Diets do not work - and that is not my opinion, that comes from systemic reviews of diets ...

Calorie restrictive diets may work in the short term, yet when you look at the long term results people end up heavier than before – any results are transient at best. (For further information look to the World Health Organisation studies into the effectiveness of calorie restrictive diets, and the ...

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Hi, smoking is not an addiction - it is a psychological habit. That's my opinion from studying it and working with stopping people smoking - although it is hotly debated! An addiction works on the pleasure/reward centres of the brain - that doesn't usually occur with smoking. 20 years of smoking? I'...

Hi Jthor, hope you are well! Bit of a nightmare situation for you - yet all too common, and your words give rise to patterns I often see in clients. "when feeling low I spend money" mainly directed at "shopping" Your problem isn't shopping - that just appears to be a symptom, giv...