Diet
Yo-yo Dieting & Weight Cycling: Risks & How to Prevent It
Yo-yo dieting (or weight cycling) is not good for your health and can make future weight loss attempts more difficult. Learn how to avoid it.
Health
Good health is the sum of your body, mind, and social well-being, and it rarely comes down to one factor. This page contains evidence-based articles on daily habits, lifestyle choices, and preventive strategies that shape your long-term physical health, mental health, quality of life and longevity.
Health
Big Belly But Thin Legs: The Candy Apple Phenotype
Why do men develop a firm belly with thin limbs? What is the hidden metabolic risks of this body shape, and how to reverse it.
Nutrition
Unplugging the Food Matrix for Nutrition and Human Health
Learn why the physical structure of food matters as much as the nutrients in it, and how the food matrix can be used to improve your health.
Nutrition
Health Benefits of Legumes: Just One Can a Week
Adding just one simple can of legumes a week to your weekly shop can transform your heart and gut health, your wallet, and the planet.
Exercise
Overtraining: How to Diagnose & Prevent It
Monitoring and early diagnosis can prevent overtraining syndrome, as can planned training, rest, recovery, nutrition and lifestyle choices.
Mediterranean Diet
Beyond Food: How Mediterranean Culture Protects Health
The Mediterranean people are considered some of the healthiest in the world. But it is not just down to the foods that they eat.
Fat Loss
Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat? The Genetics of Obesity
Genes influence how much body fat you have and how easily you lose (or gain) it. However, they don't make you obese or stop you from losing fat.
Fat Loss
How Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) Affects Weight Loss & Health
BMR is the largest source of energy expenditure in your body, and it can change. Learn how to calculate it, and make it work in your favour.
Mediterranean Diet
Why the Mediterranean Diet is the Gold Standard for Health
The Mediterranean diet is nutrient-dense and minimally processed, and its lifestyle is high-quality, which is why it is the healthiest around.
Fat Loss
Visceral Fat & Health: Not All Fat is Created Equal
Visceral fat is stored around organs. Internal fat is metabolically active and releases substances that are bad for your cardiometabolic health.
Diet
7 Core Health Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet
A breakdown of the underlying science behind seven core health and longevity benefits of the Mediterranean diet.
Mediterranean Diet
A Practical Guide to Starting the Mediterranean Diet
Learn about the Mediterranean diet: vegetables, fats, proteins, and carbohydrates; social eating, movement patterns, sleep, rest and traditions