There are many reasons why maybe living with more weight than you want to one of these is because we believe that your body has physiological ‘set point’, which means that your brain has an idea of how much it wants you to weigh. We don’t fully understand what determines each person's set point, but [...]
One of the most important things I ask my patients to learn in my clinics is that their extra weight is not their fault. Many of them spend their whole lives blaming themselves for any excess weight that they may be living with, but science tells us that this is not the case. We know [...]
One of the great debates of our time in the weight loss community is which diet is the best for weight loss. The truth is that if there was one specific dietary pattern that was the best for everybody then we would have found it by now and most of us would be eating that [...]
Life is seemingly relentless. From the moment we open our eyes until the time when we crawl, exhausted and defeated, back to the refuge that is our duvet cocoon for a brief period of respite from the craziness of modern life, the pressure is on. To be better. A better spouse, parent, child, colleague, [...]
‘Of course I eat a healthy diet, I’m a vegan!’ Whether in my GP surgery or in social media groups I hear this all the time, and it is true that on average a vegan diet is healthier than a standard Western diet. And lest we forget, many people who adopt a vegan lifestyle [...]
The soundtrack to our life. It says a lot about us, and to many is a critical source of pleasure, relaxation, motivation, religious devotion, romance and plenty besides, depending on what we need from it at any given moment. Music can cover it all. And whether we are tone deaf and dimly aware of [...]
