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People often adopt vegetarian or even vegan diets because they are told it will make them healthier, but the same epidemiological correlation that tried to link butter with heart disease claimed trans fats would prevent it, and now statistical links claim just the opposite.

Without a plausible biological mechanism for how meat or trans fats might impact health, such claims always remain "exploratory" but in a 24-hour news cycle a big name like Harvard School of Public Health or International Agency for Research on Cancer will get media attention, and most covering science journalism don't know the difference between correlation and causation. IARC, for its part, even tries to make its findings seem more authoritative than they are and use causal verbiage in their media kits while their actual monagraphs note they can't show causation.

But 'meat is bad for you' is now big business. So big that if studies debunk it, "True Health Initiative" and epidemiologists like Walter Willett and Frank Hu, who've made their careers undermining a normal diet, will call any scientist who undermines them shills for Big Meat; the kind of ethically suspect technique that is unfortunately common among activist academics. True Health Initiative will even try to pressure journals into censorship or lobby law enforcement to investigate critics. Their dozens of corporate sponsors won't continue to fund them if they don't.

This risotto and shrimp looks delicious, and it is delicious, and it is vegetarian, but it is not health food just because some people in Greece eat it and have slightly better health. Calories matter most. Credit: flickr user avlxyz.

A vegetarian diet can be healthy for you. Just like any diet. Even if you only eat salads or any food at McDonald's. It can also be bad for you, just like any diet. If you want to eat Big Mac's in obscene quantities every day as a publicity stunt for a documentary, you can, and you will feel awful, but you can more easily find unhealthy looking vegetarians.

Statistical correlation claims that the "least processed" foods are healthier but the definition of such is unclear. All bread is processed but matching white bread to diseases led to claims that whole grain bread is healthier. There is no scientific basis for it. It's all bread, a lot of carbohydrates and calories. Eat too much of it without additional exercise and you will gain weight. Orange juice is basically Coca-Cola with some vitamin C but if it's squeezed by hand it's considered less processed and therefore healthier.

A recent analysis using 10 years of the 2001 and 2002 ATTICA study in Greece - begun after the Mediterranean Diet again became the latest craze - brought some sense into the matter, and it concludes that if you engage in a vegetarian diet, you won't end up more healthy than when you ate meat, if you stay obese. And that affirms calories are the problem, not the type of calories.

The results were what common sense would tell you. Higher calorie foods like juices and potatoes and chocolate are all vegetarian, but they don't make you healthier than eating a steak. The weakness of this study is the same as in all Food Frequency Questionnaire claims; it relies on memory of diet, in this case over the past year, and has so many outcomes and foods almost anything can be linked with statistical significance; 156 foods. And this analysis used a very small sample, 146, so small changes could have a big impact.

They were also obese so even though they had normal blood pressure and blood sugar when the study began it's not a surprise they developed higher numbers later. Yet even those two things are simply risk factors, not diseases themselves. So a potato can be a risk factor for a risk factor for a disease but that is no reason to give up potatoes. Eat one instead of two. The obesity is still the problem.

If you want to eat vegetarian to get healthier, make sure you pay attention to the calories. A giant salad slathered in dressing is not going to make you healthy, nor is chocolate cake. Like Einstein's Theory of Relativity, energy balance has survived all challenges. In 100 percent of studies, people who consumer fewer calories than they burn lose weight, and if you maintain a healthy weight it does not matter whether you eat a typical diet or that of a Greek peasant in the 1950s, your odds of being healthier in old age go up.

Citation: Matina Kouvari, Harokopio University, Athens, 'Healthful and unhealthful plant-based dietary patterns and their role on 10-year transition to metabolically unhealthy status in obese participants of the ATTICA prospective (2002-2012) study.' ESC Congress 2020 The Digital Experience

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I like cardio less in my 30s, I think. Its just kind of become less and less of my thing. I like my bigger stature, and as soon as I do too much cardio I get too slim. Its a really tough balance for me, because I like to be strong. I like to at least be able to work out with 315 off my chest bench. As soon as I start slipping from that, I know I need to eat more, I know I need to get back on it. I'm always just trying to be the optimum version of myself, from all angles.

Does working out in the morning help stimulate your creativity for the rest of the day?

I think I would have good ideas if I didn't work out. But it's important for mental health. And the better you feel, the more proactive you can be. When I work out, I feel really good for the day.

Do you take off days?

I try to tell myself to work out every day and then the off days end up just end up happening because of circumstance, because I'm busy or something. But I usually at least end up working out five to six times a week.

In 2012 you suffered a pretty intense neck injury during a tour rehearsal. How did that happen?

I was preparing for my world tour and I slipped during a back tuck. The coach was preparing me to do them back to back to back, and he asked me to do, like, ten of them, and I guess I got tired and bailed on one. Youre not supposed to bail cause if you bail youre fucked. And it was not on mats. We were outside, which is the biggest mistake.

Being healthy probably saved my life. I always was into fitness, partly for vanity and partly just being an athlete at heart, but after the neck injury it was like, damn, I could have really lost my life if I wasnt healthy. So it kicked things into gear. Also, I spent seven months not being able to work out, and when you have something taken away from you, when you get It back, youre, like, Oh, shit, I really just wanna go for gold.

Do you work out with a trainer?

I work out with my cousin, who acts as a trainer. We have this really competitive relationship, so it works well for me. When I work with other trainers, I just don't get the best out of myself. He pushes me hard. When he goes hard Im gonna go harder and vice versa, so it ends up being the best kind of workout. And the most fun.

Last year you posted a video of yourself pulling a car on Instagram. What kinds of workouts do you do when you get bored of cardio or weightlifting?

I like to have fun and do different things, whether it's beach workouts, running football routes. I love boxing. I love pulling shit. Lifting carts, all kinds of like weird things, especially being at home, where I can be a lot more creative. I have an 8-seater golf cart that I do deadlifts with. And I pull a Jeep. Those are more like specialty days, which are even more fun. But I box regularly, and I lift weights every day.

What do you eat to fuel all these sessions?

My diet changes pretty often. I've done everything under the sun. I used to blend my salmon and have a salmon shake. I did all kinds of crazy shit. Sometimes I would literally just eat a bunch of eggs. Eggs and veggies. I went vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian. What works the best for me is when I intermittent fast and just do a high protein diet.

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There are many women who find the menstrual period tormenting. Bleeding, cramps, fatigue can easily topple your day upside down. But truth is that the suffering starts much before that.

PMS also called Premenstrual syndrome is equally difficult to manage. PMS is the phase right before the period. The symptoms of PMS may include mood swings, tender breasts, food cravings, fatigue, irritability, stomach related issues and even depression. Data suggest that 3 of every 4 menstruating women experience some form of premenstrual syndrome. For some, the symptoms are mild while for others it is not less than a nightmare. Although the cause of PMS isn't fully understood it is believed to be linked with the hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle. People try different things for relief during this time like pain killers or herbal tea. Here we have another magical home remedy for you that can help to sail through those difficult days of the month.

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Rebel Wilson has wowed fans and celebrity friends alike with her year of health transformation.

After losing almost 20kg and revealing shes got just 8kg to go to hit her target, people are curious as to how the Australian actress has done it.

The Pitch Perfect star declared in January she was embarking on a new health and fitness regimen that she dubbed her year of health, with help from personal trainer Jono Castano Acero.

But Rebels health journey actually began last year with a visit to Austrian wellness centre ViaMayr, according to People.

While there, the star reportedly got amazing results following the Mayr Method diet plan of eating high alkaline whole foods very slowly, aiming to count out 30 chews per mouthful.

Australian dietitian Melissa Meier has decided to go over the eating plan with a fine tooth comb. And while she says the Mayr Method has some good points, it also has some that are less than ideal.

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Rebel Wilson has the world of weight loss on the edge of its seat with a new way of eating thats supposedly helped her shed almost 20kg. Pictured above is her latest Instagram photo to prove it.

If youre interested about this eating plan, its called the Mayr Method and its offered at luxe wellness spa Viva Mayr in Austria (explains the pull, right?). Supposedly, it combines complementary medicine with nutrition and movement to help people become their healthiest selves.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

THE GOOD

One of the main focuses of the Mayr Method is mindfulness, which I think is a very good thing. When it comes to food, mindfulness involves active participation in the experience of eating, rather than mindlessly scrolling through Instagram or watching TV while you shovel food from your plate into your mouth.

It focuses on chewing slowly while paying attention not only to taste, but all of your senses, which allows you to become more in tune with your hunger and satiety cues. Ultimately, it can help you to avoid overeating while truly enjoying food without guilt.

The Viva Mayr website also hints at fasting, which has its perks. Intermittent fasting has been shown to help with weight loss (though rest assured, its no more effective than a standard calorie-controlled diet).

Plus, its been linked to metabolic health perks, protection from disease and even improved gut health and while theres still a lot to learn in this space, its a very promising area of nutrition research.

THE BAD

Based on the limited, ambiguous information on the internet, thats about where the good news stops, and the reg flags start. A highlights reel on the Viva Mayr website explains that when you arrive at the spa, youre provided with a personalised food plan from a doctor, which really grinds my gears. In case youre not aware, dietitians are the experts in the world of food not doctors. Got it? Good.

At the spa, youre recommended to eat the same foods over and over again, which apparently aids healing (whatever that means) and teaches your bowels to work more efficiently (again, whatever that means) and I call BS.

As a dietitian, Id recommended you eat a diet as wide and varied as possible, in order to meet your nutritional needs and maintain enjoyment around food. Your bowels should function perfectly well on their own with the help of a healthy diet and enough movement, and if not, its time to head to a gastroenterologist.

The video also explains the use of muscle testing to identify food intolerances, but again, this is not the gold standard. In fact, the only way to truly identify food intolerances is via the elimination diet protocol under the guidance of a qualified dietitian. Theres also a lot of talk around detoxification, which is simply unnecessary.

Have you heard of your liver and kidneys? Their job is to rid your body of harmful toxins and they dont need a hand from fancy foods, trendy regimes and supplements, period.

Reports also suggest the Mayr Method involves shunning gluten, dairy, sugar and caffeine, and if thats true, its another bone of contention for me. Why? One, there is simply no benefit to avoiding gluten unless you have a medical need to do so. Two, dairy is incredibly nutrient-dense, offering not only bone-strengthening calcium but also hunger-busting protein and vitamin B12 for healthy blood.

Three, sugar is not the devil, especially if its naturally occurring. And four, while too much caffeine isnt good for you, a little bit in the form of a daily cup of Joe is perfectly fine in my books.

Last but not least, there is also a book titled The Viva Mayr Diet, which promises a tempting quick fix. A flatter stomach in 14 days, a beach babe body, a younger you if that doesnt scream fad diet, I dont know what does.

THE VERDICT

As a general rule of thumb, I dont recommend splashing your cash on exy wellness trends and the Mayr Method at Viva Mayr appears to have all of the hallmarks of just that. I might be biased, but I think the best way to diet is to not actually diet at all and instead, spend your hard-earned dollars on a qualified dietitian who can guide you on the right nutritional path for you as an individual in an evidence-based way.

Melissa Meier is a Sydney-based accredited practising dietitian. You can connect with her at Honest Nutrition or on Instagram

This article originally appeared on bodyandsoul.com.au and was reproduced with permission

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A recent study carried out in Q3 of this year reveals that a total of 11% of global consumers are vegetarian, 20% are flexitarian, and 3% identify as vegan, signifying that one third of consumers around the world are following a diet that is based around the moderation or elimination of animal produce.

The FMCG Gurus Foodservice survey was carried out in 26 countries amongst 31,000 respondents, and centred around the subject of foodservice and consumer satisfaction therein. The results found that when questioned, vegans are significantly less likely to be satisfied with menus within the foodservice sector compared to vegetarians and flexitarians. This indicates that more plant-based food and drink should be available in the channel, especially as they will appeal to other consumers looking to limit intake of animal produce.

A total of 24% of all consumers say that they would like to see foodservice outlets promote products that are suitable for plant-based diets, whilst 27% said that they think foodservice outlets could better capture their attention through promoting plant-based products.

The report concludes that whilst appealing to vegans is important, vegan-inspired menus will not just be limited to this group in terms of appeal, and that positioning plant-based food and drink products around health and sustainability benefits is an initiative that will have appeal and positive repercussions around the world.

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Tia Mowry is showing off herfigure after losing weight followingthe birth of her daughter, and she has a powerful message for new mothers. Here is what she had to say.

Tia Mowry is showing off her figureafter going on a weight loss journey following the birth of her daughter Cairo last year.

The star took to Instagram to share a mirror selfiewearing a gray turtle neck sweater and denim shorts, and she looks terrific.

The mother of two had a special message for new mothers, opening up to them about the pressure they faceto "snapback" after giving birth.

After Mowry was fat-shamed during and after her pregnancy, she wanted to empower women and remind them that they should do things in their time. She said:

"Im very proud that I did it my way and in my time. I didnt feel rushed to snap back. I enjoyed breastfeeding and spending quality time with#cairoand my son#cree."

Last year, Mowry spoke about her weight loss journey and revealed that she had faced criticism after she did not lose the weight as fast as people thought she should have.

However, she said that it was not about looking great, adding that if it took a while to get to her goal weight, then so be it.

Mowry often speaks about body positivity, revealing that during her pregnancy, she had suffered from diastasis recti, a condition that causes the abs to separate.

The "Sister, Sister" star shared the news with a photo posted six months after giving birth to her daughterand revealedthat it was the cause of her "little pouch." She added:

"Shining a spotlight on this because I had never heard of it. Have to go hard with core work to restore. We will work on that later 🙂 "

She revealed that she had chosen to document her journey to show others that it was ok to go at your own pace and not fold to societal pressure.

This is not the first time that female celebrities have faced unreasonable pressures to lose weight after giving birth.

After her second child, Chrissy Teigentook to Instagram opening up about her journey, joking that she was 20 pounds heavier than before getting pregnant as she loves food too much.

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Anyone who is trying to lose weight will no doubt have all kinds of information running through their mind each time they cook their dinner or plan a workout. With so many diet plans out there, it can be hard to keep up with the best way to lose weight, especially as so much of the advice seems to contradict itself depending on which method you choose. But what if some of the most common weight loss beliefs were actually stopping you from shedding the pounds?

From counting up your calories to avoiding carbs and taking up high intensity training, there are all kinds of diet tips that promise to help you to lose weight.

However, many of the promoted diet rules are designed to help you lose weight fast - which isnt necessarily the best way to go about it.

Rhiannon Lambert, a registered nutritionist, founder of Rhitrition and author of the new ebook, A Simple Way To Fuel Fitness, often sees this in her clinic, where she specialises in weight management, disordered eating, and pre- and postnatal nutrition.

At the Rhitrition clinic I see clients hoping for quick transformations and short term plans, Rhiannon explained. These may sound exciting, but all they tend to do is give you just a glimpse of those dreams until suddenly they dont.

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The expert advised that fast weight loss can be hard to keep up long term, with the immediate weight loss results being hard to maintain.

Instead you need a more sustainable plan that will work day in, day out, with foods that will give you the energy you need to keep up a healthy lifestyle - and stop you from reaching for the snack cupboard.

When it comes to your diet, think about the quality of your nutrition and a balanced plate at meal times to help your overall health for mind and body, Rhiannon warned.

Having worked in sports nutrition for years, Rhiannon has shared her food philosophy for how to eat well in a way that will boost your energy levels and fuel your workouts in her latest book - and debunks plenty of food and fitness myths along the way.

Exclusively for the Express, Rhiannon has revealed the top three diet myths that may be affecting your weight loss goals, and what you really need to focus on if youre trying to slim down.

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Exercise is often associated with weight loss, but its fat loss that should be the goal, explained Rhiannon.

The expert revealed that dieters often celebrate that theyve lost weight, when actually its their muscles that they have lost.

When you lose weight, you want to maximise fat loss, while minimising muscle loss, said Rhiannon. This is why exercise is so important for any diet plan.

If you simply reduce your calorie intake to lose weight, without exercising, you will probably lose muscle as well as fat.

When you cut back on calories, your body is forced to find other sources of fuel. In fact, its been estimated that when people lose weight, about a quarter of the weight they lose is muscle.

However, the nutritionist explained that you cant always tell by whats on the scales either, as if you do lose fat rather than muscle, the numbers may not drop too much - so dont be disheartened if youre not seeing a dramatic change and go by how you feel instead.

If you spend your gym sessions aiming to get into the so-called fat burning zone, you might actually be reducing your chances of losing weight.

A term that can be frequently used is the fat burning zone when relating to weight loss, and is usually indicated on the cardio machines heart rate chart, commented Rhiannon.

Working out in the fat-burning zone means youre keeping your intensity and heart rate relatively low.

This means that of the calories you use, a greater proportion will come from fat.

While this might sound good, youll actually burn more calories overall from working at a higher intensity.

Most diets focus on calorie intake - and burning off more than you eat. But what if its not that simple?

Being aware of the calorie content in food has long been drummed into us, and those who try to lose weight often use a total daily calorie intake as a guide, admitted Rhiannon, who doesnt believe it is the best way to hit your goal weight.

Calories really arent much more than a number and we shouldnt be relying on calorie content alone to dictate what constitutes a healthy diet, as they can be deceptive and very damaging when used inappropriately, the expert warned.

Calories dont tell you anything about the quality of your diet! Think about eating food, not calories and try as hard as you can to look at your diet as a whole instead of the sum of its parts.

That means focusing on healthy items like vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and lean protein, and it also means eating mindfully - slowing down, eating until you're satisfied, and giving restriction a miss.

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After months of being homebound and gaining all that extra body weight, when gyms in the city finally opened its door again, its quite obvious that people are in a hurry to get back in shape. But health experts are urging people to exercise caution before getting into rigorous workouts at gyms or fitness clubs. And they have a reason to say so.Take this recent incident, for instance: Eighteen-year-old fitness enthusiast Lakshay Bindra was in such a hurry to lose those extra kilos he had put on during the lockdown that he decided to go for rigorous exercise the day he hit the gym after months. Result: The same evening, he started experiencing extreme muscle fatigue, followed by body stiffness, pain and vomiting. Things worsened and he had to be admitted to the ICU, as he suffered from acute abdomen pain, dark urine and weak kidney and liver functioning. It took him some time to recover after sessions of dialysis and physiotherapy, to be precise.

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It's no secret that losing weight can help improve health concerns like lowering your risk of a heart attack, improving metabolism, lowering blood pressure, and much more. But scientists say becoming healthier, eating nutritious foods, and exercising can also help reduce the risk of certain types of cancer.

In fact, losing weight can help reduce the risk of obesity-related cancer, according to a study published recently in the journal Obesity. These cancers can include kidney, colon, pancreas, gallbladder, liver, breast, thyroid, and more, according to the National Cancer Institute.

The study looked at 4,859 adults between the ages of 45 and 76 who had never had cancer before. It followed their weight loss over 11 years. One of two weight loss plans was randomly assigned to each study participant.

One plan, called intensive lifestyle intervention (or ILI), reduced the number of daily calories for the participant. It also added in meal replacement products and increased their exercise to around 175 minutes a week. The other plan is called Diabetes Support and Education (DSE). It featured three support group meetings about diet, exercise, and encouragement a year for three years. Meetings were then once per year after that.

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After the 11 year follow-up, researchers found that about 14% of participants exactly 684 had been diagnosed with cancer. Fewer people who followed the ILI weight loss plan were diagnosed compared to those who followed the DSE plan. Those who followed the ILI plan saw their chances of being diagnosed with obesity-related cancer fall by 16%.

"Healthcare providers should be encouraged to provide such counseling or refer patients with obesity to intervention programs that help people manage their weight. Moreover, establishing an environment with easier access to healthy food and physical activities is the foundation of obesity and cancer prevention," says Hsin-Chieh "Jessica" Yeh, PhD, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University and the corresponding author of the study.

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My working title for this story was Fat at 50, Forever, and you can hardly blame me. While it was definitely tongue-in-cheek, for those of us whove gained a few pounds in midlife, maintaining a healthy size becomes and theres no way to sugar-coat it increasingly difficult. As you age, you put on weight, says the founder of the diagnostic clinic Viavi:be Dr Sabine Donnai, who specialises in health and exercise programmes for the over fifties. And thats if youre just standing still, not eating, not doing anything, just purely because your metabolism goes down each year.

Tempting as it is to accept this as an unavoidable part of getting older, there is (vanity aside) good reason for resisting this seemingly inexorable increase. As well as the surface weight were amassing, were also accumulating visceral fat, which surrounds our organs and stops them functioning as well as they should, which leads to a shorter lifespan.

Women have it twice as bad: along with the ageing process, during which the body swaps muscle for fat, we have the menopause to deal with. The loss of oestrogen has a particular effect on the way your fat is distributed, says Dr Donnai. Firstly, when oestrogen drops, you get mood swings, and frequently you overeat to compensate. You sleep badly as your progesterone drops, and your stress levels rise, often because its easy at this age to lose a sense of purpose especially if youve had children and theyre growing up and relying on you less.

Additionally, your body stores fat differently, as its lipoprotein lipase (which sits on the surface of the fat cells, pulling in fat from the blood) goes into overproduction, no longer kept in check by the now declining oestrogen. If the fat gets pulled into a muscle cell, it gets burnt off as fuel; but if it gets pulled into a fat cell, it just makes the fat cell bigger. You get the idea.

At this point, youre probably expecting a paragraph starting with the word fortunately, followed by a quick-fix diet with, quite possibly, some new gadget or machine promising that the whole sorry situation will be resolved in no time. Im sorry to disappoint. You need to get into the gym and lift weights, says Dr Donnai matter-of-factly. I know this is often alien to mature women, who are more used to yoga and some Pilates, both of which play a part, but its weights that will slow down the ageing process.

The physiological explanation behind this is that when you start training and lifting weights that feel like theyre too much for you, your body responds by making more muscle, in order to prevent what it perceives as damage. It stimulates a growth hormone, which in turn stimulates testosterone, and lifting that weight each time causes your metabolism to speed up. The lipoprotein lipase now pulls the fat into muscle cells, and because you have more muscle now anyway, thanks to lifting weights, your basic metabolic rate goes up, so you can eat without gaining weight, or lose weight if you eat slightly less.

Are weights the only option? Women really need to create high muscular overload on two fronts: to burn more calories, and raise the metabolism; but also to maintain bone density, says Matt Roberts, founder of the Matt Roberts Evolution personal training gym. When you stress the muscles, the tendons which are attached to the bone pull on it; the bone thinks it needs assistance and stores more calcium, and your bone density increases. High-impact exercise, going for a run, jumping, landing and moving, all also increase bone density. The impact of boxing is really good for bone density in the upper body, whereas running is good for the lower body. But you need a strategy in place for injury prevention this is where the yoga and Pilates come in as they create elasticity in the muscle tissue around the joints.

Sooner rather than later, we also have to address diet. To kick-start weight loss before a surf trip on which I didnt want to be carrying excess pounds, I embarked on a metabolic balancing diet under the guidance of Amanda Griggs at the Khera-Griggs clinic. I lost 8lbs in two weeks, and Id do it again, but perhaps only once a year it was tough.

You have to look at taking out starches and carbohydrates, rethink your portions, says Griggs. You have to realise, This is my meal. If that sounds a little grim, it has the advantage of reintroducing discipline. With a ban on snacking between meals, the diet which is restrictive for a fortnight but moves on to a maintenance plan thats all about mindful eating is healthy and delivers results. My BMI dropped to bang-on healthy. Of course, how you keep up those results is another matter. Youre quite disobedient, says Griggs, who guided me through the two weeks with plenty of stern, kind and highly motivating WhatsApp messages. Sometimes you only ate two meals a day, and Im not sure you always stuck to the quantities of protein you needed.

Roberts also homes in on protein. If you focus on eating enough protein, you just wont have the appetite for carbs. A womans protein intake is woefully low, he says. Government guidelines suggest 45g of protein for a 60kg woman, but Roberts explains, One egg is about 5g. So shifting away from carbs and loading up on beans and quinoa or eating sardines, as theyre high in calcium, will help control your blood sugar, raise your metabolism, and activate fat burn.

As well as advising abstaining from alcohol It gives you nothing other than a hangover and strips away Vitamin B13, which is vital for brain function hes also a fan of intermittent fasting. As women get older, they tend to think they need to eat less, and go on extreme low-calorie diets, but they dont work. You just add on more weight than you did before. Women have greater levels of visceral fat if you fast for 16 hours (from around 8pm until midday) for two to four days a week, for up to four weeks, and for the rest of the week take out the obvious foods that build up blood sugar, and increase protein, your body gets into a state of ketosis (where your metabolism is more energised due to lower blood sugar levels) and youll be burning away your visceral fat.

It all sounds easy enough, but as an inveterate carb-loading snacker who has eaten two and a half croissants while writing this I apparently still have a way to go.

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