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The Harcombe Diet: How to eat your favourite foods and still lose weight

The  Harcombe Diet: How to eat your favourite foods and still lose weight By  Prima Team PUBLISHED: 21 APRIL 2016 Do you dream of a weight loss plan that doesn't involve calorie counting and allows you to eat the foods you love? The premise of the  Harcombe  diet  is that you really can enjoy as much food as you want without having to tot up the calories:  salmon ,  chicken stir-fries , eggs... and then later even pasta, cheese, fruit,  dark chocolate and red wine! Nutritionist Zoë Harcombe, who has spent 20 years researching weight loss and overeating, has identified three common medical conditions that cause food cravings:  Candida albicans Food intolerance Hypoglycaemia The discovery that Zoë made during her research was that if you follow current dietary advice to eat less, eat low-fat or count calories, then three things happen: 1.  You'll eat more carbohydrates and less fat 2.  You'll eat the same things every day (to get...
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WOMAN FOOD — start by ditching the rice cakes

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To combat hot flushes and depression women should eat more, not less, scientist Dr Federica Amati tells Anna Maxted Anna Maxted Tuesday October 31 2023, 12.01am, The Times T he clinical nutritionist and research scientist Federica Amati is a busy woman — working with the health science company Zoe, teaching nutrition to medical students at Imperial College and seeing clients at a London clinic. Yet, fortunately, she has found time to write  Recipes for a Better Menopause . Amati explains the science of the transition, and how to prepare for it. She also includes a guest chapter on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) from the menopause specialist Dr Sam Brown. Amati devised the cookbook section with the chef Jane Baxter, formerly of the River Café, who runs the Wild Artichokes restaurant in Devon. Baxter, guided by evidence on what ingredients ease menopause symptoms, says: “I tried to add nuts and seeds, without it feeling like  you’re at a hippy festival.” She created dishes t...
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MAN FOOD What to eat for health and energry

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  ManFood  by Ian Marber Why men put on weight in midlife — and why it matters We all start to lose muscle mass as we age, with inactive men over the age of 30 losing between 2 and 5 per cent each decade. More active men may delay this process, but even they will generally start to lose some muscle mass by their late forties. In turn, there tends to be a corresponding increase in the amount of fat in our bodies. This matters because muscle is far more efficient than fat in terms of using the energy that is generated from the food you eat. Another factor in age-related weight gain is the gradual decline in testosterone levels. These peak during puberty and young adulthood, plateau for a few years, then start to decrease by about 1 per cent a year from the age of 30. Testosterone plays an important role in protein synthesis and also encourages the production of growth hormones — two factors that are related to maintaining and building muscle mass. In addition, as levels fall, fa...
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