5 Fruit Facts that could be Fiction

Fruit Facts?

Fruit is great. We are all aware of this and we get most of our information on this from health and medical sources. The reason for this is often that doctors and health professionals are looking for ways to improve general health levels and particularly obesity levels. This often leads to stated facts about fruit and vegetables which is not necessarily true and can certainly be improved upon. Today we will look at some commonly head thoughts about fruit and look at their validity and viability in a world where fruit is both available and wide in its variety.

An Apple a day keeps the doctor away…

Maintaining Creatine Supplementation with Natural Nutrition

Want better gains?

Athletes are regularly using supplements to increase the gains they achieve at the gym and on the sports field. We have already written about meat choices for muscle and post exercise recovery, but these won’t cover everything you want in your workouts. For this athletes use a range of supplements with varying degrees of scientific support. Today we will look at creatine supplementation which is one of the most widely used performance ergogenic aids.

 

 

Which is Better, Horse Meat or Beef?

Which is best?

It’s a hot topic in the news recently and with each day more and more products are being found to contain horse meat in place of beef. This has worried many people, and with good cause! Anyone who is conscious of their nutrition wants to know if beef or horse is better for them. Well today we hope to find out. Should we be worried about eating horse? Well, potentially it could contain a chemical called ‘bute’ which is dangerous to humans, and we await news on this, but the chances are very much limited. If we take the horse meat as ‘bute’ free, we can begin to analyse its worth, and find out if it’s better or worse than beef…