Good nutrition isn’t brain surgery so it’s time to ditch the diet books for good. In fact the world’s largest study of weight loss at the University of California showed in January that diets only lead to weight gain and increase your risk of heart disease.

Fortunately, healthy eating — the kind of eating that keeps you slim for life – doesn’t leave you starving. The message is simple — forget diets and go back to basics with honest, healthy eating. My healthy eating rules are the only rules you need to know to feel good, stay healthy and lose weight at the same time. And eating better means eating more too …

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You enter the shop with the best of intentions: to buy healthy foods for yourself and your family. But it’s easy to go through on autopilot–buying the same things over and over even when you suspect (or know) that your choices aren’t good for you.

A diet high in nutrients and low in additives and preservatives is the key to good health. But supermarkets can be confusing places with so many different types of foods, labels and brands. If you just haven’t got time to read food labels or aren’t sure what you should be buying to maximise your health use the following as a guide to help you know which foods to include and which to avoid to maintain good health …

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In Chinese Traditional Medicine, celery is used as a cure for hypertension. It is now known that celery contains phytochemical compounds called phthalides, which not only give it its flavour but have also been shown to lower blood pressure. In lab tests, when animals were injected with 3-n-butylphthalide (3nB) extracts from celery, their blood pressure fell by 12-14%.

Studies in vitro and in animals have also shown that 3nB can lower blood cholesterol levels and reduce the formation of the arterial plaques which can result in cardiovascular disease. In animal studies, 3nB has also been found to help prevent …

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