Talking Turkey with Prof Trim
Why not the Australian Aboriginal diet for health and weight loss? The Mediterranean diet; a mixture of fruit, nuts, vegetables, seafood, pasta and olive oil has been sold so much as the healthy diet by nutritionists and the medical profession in recent years, that many people think they have to move to Crete or Italy …
Talking Turkey with Prof Trim
True or false? You have to bust a gut to lose a gut. Sit-ups will not help reduce fat off the waist. Exercise is better than dieting for weight loss. Swimming is better than walking for weight loss. Exercise before breakfast is better for fat loss. Sauna baths are good for fat loss. Weight lifting …
Talking Turkey with Prof Trim
‘Really, what do you guys know about nutrition anyway? One day you say eat this and the next day avoid it? When will you get it right?‘‘ The fact is that nutrition is a very incomplete science. Unlike other areas of health (like exercise), where we can specifically study muscles and their reaction, nutrition involves …
Talking Turkey with Prof Trim
Are ‘energy’ drinks all they’re cracked up to be? Caffeinated ‘energy drinks’ (‘Red Bull’; ‘Mother’; ‘V’ etc.) have become a popular part of the soft drink market, and are also sometimes used as a way of losing weight. But are they all they’re cracked up to be? Do they provide energy? And are there any …
Talking Turkey with Prof Trim
What drives us to drink? Thirst Like hunger, thirst is a biological drive that prevents us from dehydrating, and ensures that the 70% of the human body that is made up of fluid is maintained. Any decrease of body fluid by more than 5% can cause major physiological problems – and ultimately even death. As …
Move It & Lose It with Prof Trim
How much protein is enough? The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of a nutrient is an estimate of the minimum average dietary intake level that meets the nutrient requirements of nearly all (around 97% that is) healthy individuals. Based on this recommendation, the RDA for protein in the diet is 0.8 grams per kg of body …
Move It & Lose It with Prof Trim
Why weekends can be the worst enemy of weight loss For many people (men in particular), the week’s eating, exercise and lifestyle pattern is quite different to that on the weekend. Attitudes and behaviour tend to be a little more relaxed towards the end of the week with socialising and less constraint on over-indulgence. So …
Move It & Lose It with Prof Trim
Fat body, fat tongue? The idea that sleep apnea and snoring is at least partly caused by an increase in the size of the tongue in obese people has been around for some time. This makes perfect sense because an increase in tongue size would mean a blockage in the air passages and hence a …
Move It & Lose It with Prof Trim
Losing weight. Let us count the ways … If you’re looking to lose weight, there’s no shortage of ‘experts’ around to help. But it’s usually only weight off the wallet they take. Not off the body. So how do you know who to believe? Well, a recent publication which backed up Government guidelines on this, …
Move It & Lose It with Prof Trim
Why alcohol is not totally innocent in the lard production department Of the three biochemical means of metabolising alcohol, none result in its direct conversion to fat. However, research from several centres shows that our inhibitions go down when we have a drink. Hence those fattening salted peanuts look more appealing, and the means of …
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