Healthy Eating & Exercise Advice
Not all fat is created equal and eating the right type of fat is a vital part of a healthy lifestyle. Certain types of fat can actually help reduce your risk of heart disease, you lose weight, absorb certain types of vitamins, keep your skin and hair healthy, improve your immunity, boost your physical well-being [...]
Zinc is an essential mineral primarily required by the body for normal growth and development. Science has actually discovered that zinc is involved in so many different functions that it can be found in almost every cell of the body. With approximately 300 or more enzymes requiring zinc to function properly it’s actually quite difficult [...]
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is an essential vitamin involved in many body processes. Unlike most animals, human’s can’t synthesise vitamin C, we must rely on our diets to provide it. Vitamin C’s roles within the body include antioxidant, enhancing iron absorption from the small intestine, the synthesis of collagen and connective tissue [...]
This guest article is by Amanda dos Santos of Food Active. It is a tough one as it tends to make a food taste great, but too much of our common table salt can lead to issues with our health. The ‘nasty’ compound associated with salt is actually the sodium (which is combined with its [...]
If you suffer from lactose intolerance or have an allergy to cows milk, you’ll know that getting enough calcium into your diet every day can be quite difficult, particularly when health promotion mainly focusses on dairy as your best source of this important mineral. Although dairy is a rich source of calcium and is where [...]
Calcium is an essential mineral required by the body for a number of different functions. It’s most well known role is being the major mineral component of bones and teeth. Without sufficient calcium intake, particularly during periods of rapid growth, the bones can become inadequately mineralised. When the calcium component of bones becomes too low [...]
Iron is an essential mineral required by the body for a number of different functions. It’s most well known role is it’s attachment to the red blood cell protein, haemoglobin. The iron in haemoglobin binds to oxygen and delivers it to all the cells of the body. Metabolic respiration, the process where cells create energy [...]
Folate is a B-vitamin responsible for a number of important chemical reactions in the body involved in the synthesis and repair of DNA. This means that adequate intake of this essential vitamin is particularly important during periods of growth and development. Folate deficiency can occur for a number of different reasons and effects the cells [...]
Vitamin K is usually the nutrient that most people don’t know anything about or haven’t even heard of before. It is a fat soluble vitamin and it’s most important role is involved in the formation of a blood clot. Vitamin K is made up of a family of compounds also known as quinones and is [...]
Vitamin E is a fat soluble vitamin and is actually the name given to a family of 8 different naturally occurring chemicals which have a range of functions within the body. Primarily, vitamin E is an essential part of the bodies anti-oxidant system and helps protect the body against oxidative stress. Anti-oxidants fight oxidative stress [...]
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