Nutrition
The headlines have been consistent for a couple of years now and the shopping is more confusing than it was. Ultra-processed food is bad. But. Wholemeal bread is ultra-processed. So is the protein bar in your gym bag, and so, on most classifications, is a supermarket hummus.
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Four o'clock, and you want something sweet and a coffee. You're not hungry. You're flat.
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The alarm goes at 5am. You're in the car by 5:15 and on the floor by 5:30, and somewhere in those fifteen minutes is the question of whether you should have eaten something.
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In a week the diary empties out, the routine resets, and people who've been meaning to sort their food out since January finally get a week shaped like a normal week. September, not January, is when the year restarts. So — what the Nutrition and Lifestyle Programme is. It&
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The shop is sorted. Now the harder part: cooking, on a Tuesday, for people who all want different things, in the forty minutes between the end of work and the start of swimming. Most family nutrition advice is written by someone who's never had to do this. So,
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Three weeks until term. Which means three weeks until the 7:15am kitchen, the packed lunches, and the question that ruins more nutrition plans than any takeaway: what are we eating tonight. Your food decisions on a Tuesday evening are made by a version of you who's tired,
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Alex asked which supplements are worth taking and which are worth skipping. Here's the whole list, with doses, and nothing on it I don't take or wouldn't give my own family. Creatine monohydrate. 3 to 5 grams a day, every day. The most studied
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Alex asked what she should be eating before a session. The two things that decide it: how long you've got, and how long the session is. How long you've got. Two to three hours out, eat a normal meal. Protein and carbohydrate, the plate method, nothing
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The drive to the airport is where a good week of eating falls apart. You're up at four, you didn't pack anything, and by the time you've parked at Luton you're running on a petrol-station coffee and whatever was by the
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By Wednesday evening, the healthy week you planned on Sunday is losing — not to a lack of willpower, but to whatever's easiest to reach when you get in tired and hungry at half six. If the fridge offers a sad half-cucumber and the cupboard offers pasta and
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It usually happens about four days into a good run. You've been eating well, the mornings feel easier, and then there's a dinner out — a birthday, a client, a Friday with friends in town. You sit down already braced for it to undo everything, order the
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Your brain is hardwired to hunt for protein. Learn why a lack of protein is the real reason you can't stop snacking on carbs.