Why I Hate Rigid Meal Plans
The main reason I don’t write meal plans for my clients, other than providing them as an example so my clients can initially see how to...
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Helder Barroso
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tracking Calories
Accuracy, Flexibility, and Consistency Implementing quantitative changes to your diet is all about balancing these three qualities. If...
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Helder Barroso
- Sep 10, 2021
- 4 min
Blood Sugar
Our body breaks down every carb we ingest into glucose, also known as blood sugar because it travels through our bloodstream. Glucose is...
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Helder Barroso
- Jul 23, 2021
- 2 min
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble nutrient. It is one of the 24 micronutrients critical for human survival. The sun is the major natural source...
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Helder Barroso
- Feb 2, 2021
- 1 min
Are you feeling Low in mood? Anxious? Depressed?Hard to concentrate?
Light in the middle of the night reduces dopamine levels to a point where it can start causing problems such as learning difficulties,...
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Helder Barroso
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
Can the time of the year have an impact on our health?
Every cell in our body is tuned to the movement of the planet relative to the sun. Hopefully most of you know the earth spins once every...
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Helder Barroso
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
Let’s talk about Naps
Naps provided that they are less than a 90 minute cycle can be very beneficial for a lot of people. Many of us naturally feel a dip in...
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Helder Barroso
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
Bad effects of light on sleep
Light is not supposed to arrive in our system at anytime and now days because of screens and artificial light we have access to light...
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Helder Barroso
- Jan 27, 2021
- 3 min
Light and the Sleep Connection
Light is what governs when we are awake and when we are asleep, particularly sun light. On the face of it, it is quite simple but people...
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Helder Barroso
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min
Hydration
LET'S TALK ABOUT WATER INTAKE Water is essential for cellular homeostasis and life and without it we can only survive a matter of days....
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Helder Barroso
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Calories In VS Calories Out
Total body weight is ultimately determined by:
calories in vs calories out
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Helder Barroso
- Aug 18, 2020
- 2 min
I Am Trying To Lose Weight
You want to lose weight/fat, you see reasons to do something about it but you also see reasons not to. You want to change habits but you...
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Helder Barroso
- Aug 6, 2020
- 2 min
Optimise Immunity
At this moment in time everyone is talking about washing hands, social distancing and wearing masks, but I haven’t heard anyone within...
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Helder Barroso
- Jul 21, 2020
- 1 min
Blueberries
Blueberries are a popular food and frequently supplemented. The antioxidant and anthocyanin content of blueberries makes them...
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Helder Barroso
- May 21, 2020
- 2 min
Eye it, Dish it, Eat it
We stop eating when our stomach is full, right? Oddly enough, this is wrong. We don’t stop eating because our stomach is full except, in...
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Helder Barroso
- May 19, 2020
- 3 min
The Popcorn Experiment
Have you ever finished a bag of chips even though they were cold and soggy? Have you ever ate stale crisps just because the bag was there...
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Helder Barroso
- Feb 11, 2020
- 3 min
Get to know your gut - Part 2
Following on from yesterday's post on getting to know your gut, today we are going to talk about the small intestine and he large...
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Helder Barroso
- Feb 8, 2020
- 3 min
Confession to being nuts about nuts! Fat Loss
I have nut problem! just ask Selina Barroso (my wife) Hina Patel-Aghada (My best friend) Kishan Aghada (Her husband) put a bowl of nuts...
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Helder Barroso
- Feb 1, 2020
- 4 min
Increased Muscle Growth with Fish Oil
Several studies directly investigated the effect of fish oil on metabolic pathways that underlie muscle growth, with very interesting...
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