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Due to popular demand, a Weight Maintenance section has been introduced.  See MAINTAINING YOUR WEIGHT for more information.

Training for an event?

See the SPORTS NUTRITION section for more information on how you can achieve your goal.

Did you know?

* A portion of meat is the size of a deck of cards.

* A portion of potato, rice or pasta is the size of a tennis ball

* 'Low calorie' and no added fat/fat free foods actually encourage 

   your body to store fat.

* Good fats are essential - without them your body cannot burn fat 

   or absorb some vitamins and nutrients.

* Almost all breakfast cereals contain sugar, syrups and partially

   inverted sugar syrups.

* Sugar raises insulin levels, which encourages your body to store fat.

* All flavoured yoghurts contain sugar or artificial sweeteners.

* Unhealthy fat choices can raise your blood cholesterol, and trans

   fats are the worst - they not only raise your LDL (bad) cholesterol,

   but they lower the HDL (good) cholesterol.

   Avoid anything with 'hydrogenated' listed in the ingredients.