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One of the motivations for this site was to give clear and reliable healthy eating tips. It’s for that reason that the topic of healthy eating is covered more extensively than any other.

Knowing how to eat healthy is more difficult than many realise, until they try it!

The truth is, in my experience, many people greatly over-estimate the extent of their healthy eating.

I always try to put a personal as well as a practical spin on my healthy eating tips. They are all below.

However, I’ve shortlisted three of the more popular articles…

5 Tips for Healthy Food Shopping

I spoke recently at a local ladies meeting on the subject of looking after ourselves from the inside out. We had a lovely evening of pampering, which included demonstrations on making face masks from ingredients in your own kitchen, as well as foot massages, manicures, facial treatments, and finally my talk. I thought it would [...]

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8 Healthy Gluten Free Snacks

Being told you have celiac disease can be daunting. But, it is a condition that can be very well managed, by making the right dietary choices. This disease is an inflammatory condition of the small intestine, which improves when gluten is removed from the diet. Gluten is a protein most commonly found in foods like wheat, [...]

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The Benefits of Juicing

Please welcome John McIntyre to Dietriffic today. He regularly writes about the benefits of juicing. This is a topic that interests me, however I know little about it, and was intrigued to read John’s story. What do you think? Please share your thoughts below ~ Melanie When a friend first told me about the benefits of [...]

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7 Alternative Breakfast Ideas

Breakfast for me used to be toasted wholegrain bread with a banana and a cup of tea. A pretty carb heavy meal, actually. But, that’s changed quite a lot down through the years. I seem to go through phases of eating the same breakfast for a long time. It was oatmeal for a while, but [...]

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Does Oolong Tea Help With Weight Loss?

Browse the shelves of any health food store, and you will find dozens of so-called slimming teas. But, do they really work? And, are they safe? I came across an interesting sales page recently for a product called Wu Long tea. Basically, they claim this 400 year old Chinese “secret” tea burns fat up to [...]

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