Healthy eating

After the festive havoc is done and you can’t quite bring yourself to find your jogging leggings or let go of that gravy boat just yet, to ease you into a…

By Rachel Branson · 17 Jan 2017

I’ve been writing for this wonderful local magazine for many years now and have waxed lyrical on a number of wide ranging subjects and some of my regular…

By Rachel Branson · 8 Sept 2016

With summer well underway and warmer weather, longer days and travels abroad, our diet and fitness becomes a major focus. It is the time of year to take…

By Rachel Branson · 6 Jul 2016

Health claims on food labels are claims by manufacturers of food products that their food will reduce the risk of developing a disease or condition. For…

By Rachel Branson · 6 Jul 2016

One of the most common questions I get asked is about sugar and whether natural alternatives are more healthy. With so much marketing, hype and excitement…

By Rachel Branson · 11 May 2016

Ground-breaking new study finds clear nutritional differences between organic and non-organic milk and meat.

By Rachel Branson · 12 Mar 2016

East Sussex

It took fifty years to convince most people that smoking kills! Will it take fifty years to convince people that most diseases are due to our modern diet?

By Rachel Branson · 11 Mar 2016

Trends come and go not only in the fashion industry but also on our plates. We all went mad for Quinoa, avocado and courgetti in 2015. What will we be…

By Rachel Branson · 17 Jan 2016

At around this time of year, nearly every single woman’s health magazine will for the umpteenth year be full of faddy trends and telling us to detox and…

By Rachel Branson · 8 Jan 2016

Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently you will probably have heard how important your gut is in relation to your overall health.

By Rachel Branson · 16 Nov 2015

East Sussex

...the body has the potent nutrition it needs to heal, repair and maintain optimum health as best it can.

By Rachel Branson · 14 Nov 2015

Sugar consumption is having a ‘devastating’ effect on all of our dental health.

By Rachel Branson · 27 Sept 2015

Clearly B vitamins are on people’s minds. What are they, and more importantly how crucial are they for our health and longevity?

By Rachel Branson · 5 Sept 2015

We all have our opinions on how to lose weight, how we gained weight in the first place and the latest craziest fad that is THE one that will make the…

By Rachel Branson · 13 Jul 2015

However depending on what foods you are snacking on, eating little and often is paramount in the battle of balanced blood sugar. Good healthy snacks can

By Rachel Branson · 7 Jul 2015

Easter will soon be upon us - and with all of those Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies on the horizon, it’s a good idea to think about resisting chocolate

By Rachel Branson · 16 Mar 2015

East Sussex

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had a good mixed diet - do you? The evidence linking inadequate or unbalanced diets to the majority of the diseases of our

By Rachel Branson · 8 Mar 2015

Wild blueberries (bilberries) could help tackle the adverse effects of a high-fat diet.

By Rachel Branson · 7 Jan 2015