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Nutrition for healthy ageing: combating sarcopenia and inflammageing

March 25, 2024 by Tim Crowe 2 Comments

With a rapidly ageing population, more people than ever are becoming at risk of nutritional frailty. Older age is a time when specific nutrient needs can be higher while the ability to meet those needs has greater barriers. In this blog post, I highlight how our nutrition needs change as we age, the factors that make it harder to meet these needs, and the role nutrition plays … [Read more...] about Nutrition for healthy ageing: combating sarcopenia and inflammageing

Nightshade vegetables: health hazard or nutritional powerhouse?

September 8, 2023 by Tim Crowe Leave a Comment

nightshade vegetables

Heard of nightshades? They are a group of plants that include some very commonly eaten foods. Tomatoes, eggplants, capsicums and potatoes are all nightshades. These are staple foods eaten all around the world. But if you go digging into ‘health and wellness’ advice on the Internet, you’ll come across all sorts of alarming health warnings about nightshades. Digestive issues and … [Read more...] about Nightshade vegetables: health hazard or nutritional powerhouse?

Lectins: exposing the manufactured health scare around these plant proteins

August 28, 2023 by Tim Crowe 2 Comments

Lectins

Lectins are the new dietary demon responsible for all of our modern health ills - at least if you take YouTube clips and diet books on their word. These lectins are a major driver of inflammation, weight gain and chronic disease it seems. Yet to believe this, you need to ignore the reality that humans have been eating lectin-containing foods like wholegrains and legumes for … [Read more...] about Lectins: exposing the manufactured health scare around these plant proteins

Seed oils are not ‘toxic’: separating fact from fiction

June 16, 2023 by Tim Crowe 3 Comments

Seed oils

If you’re active on social media in the health and nutrition space, it’s very likely you’ve seen health advice over the last few years warning you about the health harms of seed oils. These seed oils are toxic don’t you know? And they’re blamed for a whole host of health ills such as inflammation, lowered immunity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer and more. Oh my. But the … [Read more...] about Seed oils are not ‘toxic’: separating fact from fiction

Inflammation: the good, the bad and the ugly

April 30, 2021 by Tim Crowe 1 Comment

Inflammation

Inflammation is today getting top billing as the latest health concern you should be worrying about. From avoiding so-called ‘inflammatory foods’ to eating more ‘anti-inflammatory foods’ to treat and even cure inflammation, is there no disease that cannot be explained by our understanding of inflammation?Far from something scary, inflammation is a natural process that helps … [Read more...] about Inflammation: the good, the bad and the ugly

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