Food Health-e-Bytes

The over-emphasis on shedding body fat has obscured a critical component of good health: having enough muscle. The role of our muscles goes far beyond running for the bus, carrying the shopping [...]

The word protein comes from the Greek ‘proteios’ meaning ‘primary’ or ‘first rank’ because proteins are an indispensable nutrient in the human diet. They are a vital component of every cell in [...]

Even though eating the recommended amount of fibre helps prevent diabetes, if you have long-standing diabetes (usually over 10 years), your stomach can become less effective at emptying due to a [...]

How much fibre do you need? That depends … Paleo-biologists estimate that in some parts of the world, paleo man consumed about 100 grams of fibre (combined soluble + insoluble) per day. Today’s [...]

Why is something destined for the toilet so important to our health? Dietary fibre (also known as ‘roughage’ or ‘bulk’) is the indigestible portion of plant foods. It passes relatively unchanged [...]

There’s a problem with giving cholesterol too much attention: it distracts us from focusing on more powerful ways of lowering heart disease risk such as not smoking, exercising regularly and [...]

Cholesterol is the diva of the medical world. Pursued relentlessly by the media, cholesterol gets more press than any other molecule and is constantly being brought down by drug companies. [...]

In 1960, in the film Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock used chocolate syrup for blood in the famous shower scene. In 2007, neuropsychologist David Lewis showed that dark chocolate gave the brain a bigger [...]

What do mushrooms, eggs, milk, cheese, butter, oily fish (salmon, mackerel, tuna), caviar and liver have in common? They are all dietary sources of vitamin D. Vitamin D actually refers to a group [...]

Do you agree with the title of this HEB? What does being healthy mean to you? What do you feel are the ingredients of excellent health? How important is it to you to be in the best health you can [...]