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With its vibrant green colour, superfood spirulina doesn’t look like your typical beauty elixir. But thanks to a whole range of vitamins, proteins and phytonutrients, this single-celled algae can help you achieve the beautiful hair and skin you’ve always dreamed of. And it’s not just your skin and hair that spirulina can help. This superfood has also been proven to keep you glowing from the inside out, with potential health benefits including heavy metal detoxification, lower blood pressure, more energy and faster weight loss. Add to that spirulina’s ability to boost hair and skin health, and you have a superfood...

Often our frenetic lifestyle easily absorbs our time, attention and best intentions. Before we know it, our children aren't getting the essential nutrients required for growing healthy. Children’s food is often packed with refined ingredients including processed white flour, modified starches and additives that are known to do harm and are associated with several diseases and especially weight gain. Weight is a sensitive topic, especially when it comes to children and teens. The number of children who continue to have an unhealthy, and potentially dangerous weight continues to grow in the UK. Childhood obesity, and excess weight, are significant health...

With such busy lives these days it’s easy to skip meals or forget to make the right choices when it comes to your food regimen. Every meal has its own importance, breakfast helps you to kick-start the day and lunch to take a break and re-fuel your body and mind.  So what about dinner? As the last meal of the day, it can be overlooked sometimes, however, dinner is just as important as the other meals. Here are some of the benefits of having a healthy dinner every day. Fuels your body Once you go to bed, this is when the...

Some of us love to snack almost as much as we want to lose weight. Snacks are, one of the most convenient ways to fuel before hitting the gym or to avoid a mid-afternoon lull. The problem is that often our snacking habits are adding too many calories and too few nutrients to our diets.  Most of the times, we snack more than we realise. It’s easy to grab a bag of crisps from the vending machine or some donuts from our colleague’s desk, instead of reaching for something healthier. Frequently these snacks can be full of hidden saturated fat,...

If you're trying to lose weight, you've probably amassed a menu full of calorie-cutting tips and tricks. The weight loss industry is a multi-billion pound industry filled with low calorie meal plans. You probably also know that by cutting down sugar and eating plenty of veggies, lean protein, unprocessed carbohydrates, fruit, and healthy fats will help you to slim down. So if you eat low calorie and healthy foods but still can’t seem to lose weight, or even end up gaining weight, it can be very frustrating. We’ve all been there - following a plan that’s supposed to get you lean,...