Nutrition Food Facts

Its worth reading all the different areas of this nutrition section so you can get a idea as to what foods you should buy and more importantly those to avoid. Thankfully most of the larger supermarkets in the UK are placing food guidelines on the foods your buying.

This is helping in provide a little guidance to selected your food - unfortunately most of these guidelines are placed on packets of processed foods, which should be avoided where possible due to their high levels of salt and sugar's.

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  Glycemic Index - What Does GI Mean?

  Read about the Glycemic Index and what GI means for you. Whether it's high or low glycemic foods, read our article now.

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  Salt & Salt in Your Diet

  How much salt is in your diet? Get some free salt advice on foods with high salt levels and what's safe or not.

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  Health foods advice on correct health food eating

  Free advice on healthy foods to eat and on what each healthy food has to offer the body in terms of health

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  Good Fats & Bad Fats in Our Foods

  Do you know the difference between good fats and bad fats? From saturated fats which are bad to good fats such as the essential fatty acids, read about them online.

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  Cholesterol Lowering Advice for High Cholesterol Diet

  Lowering your cholesterol levels and advice on how to do it the right way! With guidelines on high and low cholesterol foods from netfit

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  Carbohydrates Explained & Carbs in Your Diet

  Free advice on carbohydrates, carbohydrates foods good sources of carbohydrates of complex carb foods

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  Water & Drinking Water for Health

  Water, such a simple liquid but so often we forget to drink water to resupply our bodies. free advice on the benefits of this life saving liquid.

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  Protein Advice for Protein Foods

  What's the correct amount of protein to eat and what are good sources of proteins within the food you eat? If you don't know or aren't sure, then check out our website now.

Costing a little more, organic products will be far healthier for you, but you can always eat healthy even on a low budget.

Carbohydrates especially complex, should be the main source of calories within the diet for optimal health.

• Excess saturated fat increases the risk of disease
• Proteins the building blocks for the body
• Fibre, the indigestible bulk in foods
• Vitamins necessary for optimum health in correct amounts
• Minerals, important in regulating many body functions
• Water, a major component for a healthy diet
• Whenever possible aim to eat foods in their natural state, especially those in season.