Category: Food and Drinks

What the meta analyses of a high protein diet for weight loss actually found: modest short term benefits for fullness and muscle, little difference after a…

The best review of the trials found no weight difference that matters, the famous metabolism boost is mostly caffeine, and the capsule version is a separate…

What a day of calorie deficit meals actually looks like on a scale, with the arithmetic the recipe roundups leave out.

Not much, for most healthy adults. Blood glucose stays in range, resting metabolism does not fall, and nothing shuts down. What changes is appetite and timing.…

The urge for something sweet after dinner runs on a schedule you did not set. Here is what governs it, and which of those inputs you…

Ten days without sugar mainly changes appetite and habit, not body composition. Whether anything shows on the scale depends on whether cutting sugar lowers your total…

Cold water costs your body about 17 calories per 500 millilitre glass to warm up. Warm water has no measured metabolic edge. Here is what the…

Both are water with fruit acid in it, and the water is the part doing the work. What separates a comfortable gut from an uncomfortable one…

A morning glass does not switch your metabolism on. What barley water can honestly do in summer is hydrate you and displace sugar, and here is…

Grapefruit is a good fruit to eat and a poor weight loss strategy. Pooled randomised trial results show no significant difference in body weight between people…

A red banana is a cultivar, not a different fruit, and the pigment it is named for sits in the peel you throw away. Here is…

For everyday Indian cooking, iodised salt is the sensible default, because it is the one salt that reliably supplies iodine. Pink, black, sea and rock salts…