What does Vitamin D do. Vitamin D helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in your body. These nutrients are needed to keep our bones, teeth and our muscles healthy. A lack of vitamin D can lead to deformities known as rickets in children, and bone pain caused by a condition called osteomalacia in […]

Reduce blood sugar with diet The Blood sugar diet is a stricter version of 5-2 diet which could help lower blood sugar levels reversing type 2 diabetes. It involves eating 800 calories a day for 8 weeks. We recommend a minimum of 2 weeks but you can do it for up to 12 weeks depending […]

How do we get children to eat healthy A very good question, but what is the answer I ask myself you can’t force a child to eat something they don’t want. Meal times are probably your least favorite time, you call the kids and when they come they turn there noise up at what you […]

Can You Drink Alcohol and still Lose Weigh(Yup! Here’s How) Alcohol is the enemy of so many diets. Its hard to beleive that a liquid could contribute to so many calories in your body and contribute to so much weight gain. But unfortunatly it does. But there is a way you can still enjoy some […]

What is Magnesium Magnesium is a mineral vital for the proper function of your body. Magnesium is the fourth abundant mineral in your body and your body can’t work without it. Your body can’t make it, so you need to get it from your diet you can also get it by taking supplements. The nutrient […]

WHAT IS BELLY FAT? Belly Fat or abdominal fat is the subcutaneous (which means under the skin) fat that sits under the skin around the waist and provides a store of energy, and also protection and heat, for the organs. Small amounts of fat below the skin is normal and healthy, it is the visceral […]

The 5-2 Diet There is not an awful lot you can say about the 5-2 Diet, but their is a lot about intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern that involves regular fasting. There are a number of diets that involve fasting, but I find the 5-2 diet easier to do. It can take […]

Welcome to my site, my name is Suzanne I live in St Ives Cambridgeshire, I moved here a couple of years ago as it was central close to family. I’m retired and single but finding it very difficult to manage on just my state pension, in fact not doing very well got numerous credit cards […]