Is Your Tap Water Making You Fat?
Drinking around 3 Litres of water a day is a great way to help you rid yourself of excess body fat, but did you know that the water that comes out of the taps in your house could be doing you more harm than good and … Continue reading
Food Companies Are Telling You Lies
A couple of times this week I’ve heard an advert on the music channel in my personal training studio for one of Kellogg’s new breakfast cereals. This time its Special K Honey Clusters. Now Kellogg’s market these Special K cereals … Continue reading
Falling Off The Healthy Eating Wagon – On Purpose
As write this I’m sitting on a flight back from Crete to Manchester having just finished my in flight meal. You know the type I mean, one that comes with either chicken pasta or beef and potatoes, a bread roll … Continue reading
Obesity Charity Accepts Secret Sponsorship from Coca-Cola
An Obesity charity which criticised the UK Government for accepting money from junk food companies has accepted a secret paymentof £50,000 by Coca-Cola to promote low calorie sweeteners, according to the Daily Mail. Diet Cola Drinks contains sweeteners such as aspartame which … Continue reading
Unscrambling the myth regarding eggs and cholesterol
The humble egg seems to always get a bad rap from the cholesterol police. “Don’t eat so many eggs” they say, “you’ll raise your cholesterol levels” they claim, “too many eggs are bad for you”, they shout. Now me personally … Continue reading
How Alcohol Can Affect Weight Loss
Did you know that alcohol contains 7 calories / gram and this is second only to the amount of calories in fat (9 calories/g). This can have some serious negative effects when it comes to losing weight. One of the … Continue reading
Is Fast Food Sabotaging your Health?
Fast Food restuarants and chains have recently been making a massive effort to clean up their tarnished image by marketing so called healthier foods. In fact one American fast food company (not trading un the UK) has recently launched their ‘Drive … Continue reading
Are Diet Drinks Damaging your Health?
Many artificial sweeteners on the market in the UK today contain ingredients that may be quite harmful to your health. Our advice here at NorthWest Personal Training in Manchester is to check out your “diet drink” or sugar free product for the following: … Continue reading
12 Top Tips for Healthy Eating
1. Never skip breakfast (especially if you are trying to lose weight). 2. Eat more vegetables. 3. Try and snack on healthy fruits and nuts. 4. Eat more oily fish. 5. Remove as musch saturated fat from your diet as you can. … Continue reading
4 Healthy Eating Tips for Weight Loss
Below are four healthy eating tit-bits you can and should use to help improve how you look and feel. 1. Cut down on the alcohol If booze is a major part of your social life, your waistline may end … Continue reading
