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  • Boost Your Iron Intake With These Simple Diet Changes

    Boost Your Iron Intake With These Simple Diet Changes

    A drink with your breakfast, lunch or dinner can make your meal more enjoyable. But have you considered whether your drink of choice may affect the way your body absorbs the nutrients in your food? Dietary factors that can increase the uptake of other nutrients are called enhancers, while those that can reduce the uptake…


  • What Is ‘Gut Health’ and Can You Actually Boost It?

    What Is ‘Gut Health’ and Can You Actually Boost It?

    If you walk down the supermarket aisle, you may be tempted with foods marketed as being good for your gut. Then there are the multiple health blogs about improving, supporting or maintaining your “gut health”. But what does “gut health” mean? Is it the absence of disease? Is it no bloating? Or is it something…


  • Why Breakfast Is Not the Most Important Meal of the Day

    Why Breakfast Is Not the Most Important Meal of the Day

    In today’s fitness scene, there are a lot of different opinions about breakfast. Some sit firmly in the camp that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and skipping it is a mortal sin. Others (mostly intermittent fasting fans) argue there’s no time for brekkie and that eating it does little to improve…