Why food labels showing the exercise needed to burn off calories won’t work for everyone: Knowing how much exercise it takes to burn the calories in certain foods may be easier for consumers to understand. Prostock-studio/ Shutterstock In an effort to tackle the increasing prevalence of obesity, the UK government has introduced a number of …
Calories or macros: nutritionist explains which works best for weight loss or building muscle: Whether tracking macros or counting calories, you'll need to get used to recording everything you eat and drink daily. Pormezz/ Shutterstock While reducing calorie intake is a proven way to reduce your weight, there’s no shortage of diets promising the same …
Reverse dieting: slowly increasing calories won’t prevent weight regain – but may have other benefits: Proponents of the diet claim slowly increasing calorie intake can boost your metabolism. Syda Productions/ Shutterstock While there are many debates about which type of diet is best for weight loss and health, it’s often not the weight loss which …
Kids expected to eat 17,000 calories worth of chocolate this Easter bank holiday: The pile of sweet treats adds up to over double the recommended allowance across the full four-day bank holiday weekend for a child aged 7-10, and ten times the recommended daily sugar allowance. Totting up to an incredible 2,000g of sugar and …
Sweet-toothed coffee lovers have weekly calories of over three cans of Coke: Sweet toothed latte or flat white drinkers drink the same amount of calories as three-and-a half cans of Coke, nutritionists said. Adding sugar, flavoured syrups, cream, whole milk or semi-skimmed to their weekly grind means they take in over 480 more needless calories …