Healthy Eating features - December 2006
Eating for your age - tailoring your diet to your time of life
The importance of diet in maintaining optimum health from cradle to grave can't be over-emphasised. In the latest nutrition feature, dietitian Azmina Govindji looks at how our dietary needs need to be adapted according to our time and stage of life – from childhood and adolescence to middle age and beyond.
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Azmina's tips for a healthy diet for all ages
Azmina offers some practical tips to help you and your family adopt healthier eating habits and maintain a healthy weight, whatever your age.
Other Healthy Eating features
Wild about watermelon!
It regularly features in the health news headlines, it has a national day dedicated to it and it even has its own queen in North America. So what’s so special about the watermelon?
Smoothies: nutritionists' dream or dentists' nightmare?
Delicious and packed with goodness, fruit smoothies may seem to be the perfect fast-food for the health-conscious consumer. But beware: your teeth and gums may suffer the effects if you indulge in too many, too often.
Smoothies: nutritionists' dream or dentists' nightmare?
Delicious and packed with goodness, fruit smoothies may seem to be the perfect fast-food for the health-conscious consumer. But beware: your teeth and gums may suffer the effects if you indulge in too many, too often.
Are you ready to make your veggie pledge?
Whether you want to cut down on red and processed meat for health reasons, or just want to try something different, National Vegetarian Week is an ideal time to take a break from the roast beef and spag bol and get creative with the veg
Brushing up on dental health
Dentists can offer more than just a check-up when they look into your mouth they can detect clues about your general health.
Brushing up on dental health
Dentists can offer more than just a check-up when they look into your mouth – they can detect clues about your general health.
Top 20 Cancer Fighting Foods
The evidence is overwhelming: according to the experts, we can all reduce our risk of certain types of cancer by simply changing our diets. Medical journalist Patsy Westcott reports on the latest advice on the foods that could help save your life.
Christmas Dinner Delights
You know the feeling: you've had a great time over Christmas but are lethargic, you've overdone it (again!) and you feel guilty. But it does not have to be like that.
Bug busters
Could your chopping board be giving you a dicky tummy or is your J-cloth spreading salmonella? The kitchen is home to millions of nasty bugs... so what can you do to eliminate them?
The fats of life
For anyone who has ever worried about their weight, the word ‘fat’ is public enemy number one. But the truth is, fats can be good for you.
Eating for good health
A healthy, balanced diet plays a vital role in maintaining our general wellbeing. So what foods should we be eating more or less of?
"Superfoods" - science or fiction?
How do "superfoods" improve our health, and should we be including them in our everyday diet?
Putting food into perspective: how to control your eating
Azmina discusses the right way to lose weight and how to adopt eating habits that will help you stay at your target weight.
Functional foods - the lowdown on those added extras
Are all functional foods good for us and should we routinely include them in our diet?
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