Is Nutrition the missing link to your health?

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A recent study showed that soluble fibre had a significant effect on inflammation. Two groups of mice were put on a low fat diet and one group was given soluble fibre while the other group wasn’t. The mice were then injected with a microbial challenge. The soluble fibre group had 50% less symptoms than the other group and recovered 50% faster. This study suggests that soluble fibre found in foods such as apples, nuts, seeds, lentils, oat bran, barley, strawberries and apples may have an anti-inflammatory and immune regulating effect

It has long been known that there is a strong link between chronic stress and obesity, but recent research has indicated that in addition to the stresses and strains of our own lives, the stress of the animals, fish and possibly the plants that we eat may also be contributing to our excess weigh – a concept called xenohormesis. Increasing pressures on the farming industry to produce large quantities of inexpensive food have led to animals being intensively reared in stressful conditions and researchers believe that obese livestock and unusual fat profiles in farmed fish are signs that we may be eating food that contains a stressed energy blueprint The thinking is that when we consume these foods our bodies begin to react so that we too become stressed and begin to lay down fat by increasing appetite and cravings for calorie dense foods.

A new study has found that Women who want to lose weight and keep it off need to exercise for almost an hour, five days a week.

Researchers found that a 55-minute regime was the minimum needed to keep up a 10percent drop in weight. Only a quarter of the 200 women involved in the study managed to lose this amount.

Research suggests a combination of exercise and calorie control as being the most successful combination for weight loss. This latest research once again confirms that plenty of exercise, along with an appropriate diet is key for weight loss.