Welcome to my blog, where you'll find short tips, quick stories, resource links and other useful stuff about nutrition and weight loss. Its also where I rant and rave from time to time. I hope you find it useful!24 October - Thanks for making Re-Energise another success
On Saturday, we held our second Re-Energise Nutrition Conference. It was a great day and a special thanks goes to our expert speakers, from left - Dr Yasmine Probst PhD, Dr Rosemary Stanton, OAM, Nicole Senior, APD. I'm on the right.
17 October - Mud and bandages won't work for weight loss
Last week I did an interview for Today Tonight about body wraps for slimming. Read it here... Fast fat loss: myths or methods?
10 October - The truth about carbs at night
You may want to limit the amount of carbohydrate you eat at night, but not for the reason you probably think. We often hear that going to bed on a full stomach is a bad idea because digestion slows down when we sleep. The result - more calories absorbed.
Wrong!
The muscular movements of our intestine for digesting food keep on working at the same rate when we shut our eyes.
The carbs at night story is all about what your blood sugars and fats are doing. In various studies on night shift workers, researchers have discovered that blood glucose and triglyceride levels tend to be higher after a meal consumed at night than when eaten earlier in the day.
It appears that insulin, the hormone responsible for storing carbohydrate as muscle glycogen, follows a circadian rythmn, with higher levels after dark. If you load up on carbs late at night, it's therefore possible you'll store more carbohydrate as body fat and also find it more difficult to burn off existing body fat.
So, don't be concerned about a sluggish metabolism at night, which only occurs overall because you lie down to sleep. But, do consider avoiding overloading on carbs after dark so as not to feed your body's major fat-storage hormone insulin.
In case you are wondering, there is not set time of the day after which you should limit food or carbohydrates. The key message here is simply to eat enough nutritious food for dinner, but not too much.
To help you gauge how much is enough, read my article How to use your fat-loss fuel light.
3 October - Spotting bogus weight loss claims
The US Federal Trade Commission has produced a great brochure about dodgy weight loss products. It will show you just how ridiculous some of the claims are.
Download it here
