As a dietitian who practises non-diet nutrition, my advice is that ‘diets’ are unhealthy for everyone. Diets tend to restrict food intake beyond what could be considered a normal, healthy diet and this has negative effects on physical health. There’s also good evidence to show the negative effects of dieting on mental health too. When [Read more…]
“Should I be drinking low-carb beer if I want to lose weight?”
Low-carb beer may sound like a healthy option until you realise that the majority of the energy coming from beer is actually from the alcohol itself, not the carbs. Carbohydrates give us 16kJ per gram whereas alcohol gives us 29kJ per gram, which is almost twice as much! Many low-carb beers have similar carbohydrate content [Read more…]