Turmeric is an amazing spice and is known for giving curries their bright orange/yellow colour, but more importantly it has been used in Asia for thousands of years because of its healing properties and combined with warm milk it’s a great way to ensure you get a good night’s sleep too! Whilst it’s most commonly bought in a powered form, you can also buy it from most major supermarket’s in it’s natural root form – it looks like a cross between a small unpeeled carrot and a pi

Losing weight successfully isn’t just about a good diet, but about a good attitude too. Boredom with food, boredom with meals, boredom with cooking, boredom with lifestyle - all very common reasons why a weight loss plan can be destroyed. Even if you have been losing weight successfully for a while it never hurts to take stock of how you feel about your weight loss program so far. “Boredom with lifestyle often leads to the inability or disinclination to do something different

The most recent research about protein tells us that it is top of the tree for helping us feel full (satiety). So for some who suffers from cravings and or the need to nibble between meals then having slightly more protein based foods may be beneficial for them. Protein rich foods tend to have a much lower GI rating which can help to control the peaks and troughs in our blood sugar levels which goes towards explaining the ‘feeling full’ sensation we get when eating protein ri