
Supplements: What's Worth Your Money and What Isn't
Three supplements have solid evidence behind them. Most of the rest are selling you an expensive version of something food already provides. Here is the honest breakdown.
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14 articles on nutrition — page 1 of 2.

Three supplements have solid evidence behind them. Most of the rest are selling you an expensive version of something food already provides. Here is the honest breakdown.

If you have always been thin and nothing you eat seems to change it, the problem is almost never your metabolism. Here is what actually works, using food you can afford.

Water does not burn fat, and drinking four litres will not speed anything up. What it does do is worth knowing — particularly the effect it has on the number you see on the scale.

One tells you exactly what to eat at every meal. The other teaches you how to decide. They suit different people, and picking the wrong one is why plans get abandoned in week three.

Losing a kilo a week is possible. What the promise leaves out is how much of it is muscle, what it does to your training, and why the weight usually comes back. Here is the honest arithmetic.

The front of the packet is marketing. The back is data. Here is how to read the panel in ten seconds, and the four tricks that make unhealthy products look healthy.

What actually happens between someone signing up and receiving their plan — the questions I ask, the calculations behind the numbers, and why the first version is deliberately not the final one.

Intermittent fasting works for a lot of people — but not for the reasons it is usually sold on. Here is what the controlled research shows, who it genuinely suits, and who should avoid it.

Rice makes you fat, ghee is healthy again, lemon water burns belly fat. Here are the seven claims that come up in almost every consultation, and what the evidence actually says about each.