Health & Nutrition

Health & Nutrition

What is Chrononutrition?

Alarm clocks interrupt our sleep abruptly five out of seven days each week. We countdown the days until the weekend rolls around again, just so we can have an

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FFF Favourite Vegan Protein Sources

Dietary protein is broken down in the digestive tract into amino acids. There are 21 amino acids of which 9 are essential. Essential amino acids cannot be

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Fat loss – what to eat and the truth about ‘fat burning’ foods

'Best foods to jumpstart your metabolism and burn fat!' Sound familiar? There is a multitude of online articles that claim there are certain foods that 'burn

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Gut Health Part 1: How our microbes impact our physical and mental health

"You are what they eat" – Alanna Collen, PhD – biologist Germs are bad…right? David Vetter was 12 years old when he died from a common herpes virus. This

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Gut Health Part 2: Practical tips to improve your gut microbiome

In part one of this series we delve into the microbiome. Discussing how each individual has a unique microbiota which is shaped from our exposure to different

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Why fibre is the one ingredient we need in our diets

Fibre is the topic on everyone's lips at the moment. And with good reason. As we dig deeper into the research, the connection between dietary fibre intake and

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The Truth About Carb Loading

The marathon is fast approaching, you've trained hard to get to this point, and stuck to your 4-weeks-out-marathon-prep-plan. So far, so good. But the

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Eggs – the real MVP

Easter is almost upon us, so that means one thing, crack out the eggs! Now we don't just mean the chocolatey kind (although we'll definitely be enjoying those

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The Perfect Pre Marathon Breakfast…

… Or at least the perfect marathon breakfast for FFF nutritionist Lisa. That last meal before the big race… Hopefully, you wake up hungry because your pre

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Build your best salad!

As the evenings get both longer and lighter there's no denying we'd all prefer to spend a little more time outside enjoying ourselves at the weekend, rather

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