Diet Archives - Tabitha Hume

Pseudoscience Dieticians Need to Explain Away

by Tabitha Hume 2018-09-05

10 Myths Dieticians are Tired of Debunking. Tabitha Hume Registered…

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Does she really have a problem with food?

by Tabitha Hume 2018-02-27

As a parent, the fear of your teen developing an eating disorder is both real, and warranted, in the modern world.
I’ve included here some clear and simple points to look out for in your child/teen/pre-adult, that may just help open a dialogue and catch a developing problem early.

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Do we really need a Detox blog - by Tabitha Hume

Do we REALLY need to Detox?

by Tabitha Hume 2018-02-05

The main aim of a ‘Detox diet’ is to try to boost the body’s natural functions, to accelerate the elimination of all by-products or poisons that have accumulated in the body.
In the old days, it used to be fashionable to reduce …

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No Such thing as “Superfoods”

by Tabitha Hume 2017-02-01

When I was little, I remember being given a little red, shiny tablet every morning after breakfast. “To make you strong and energetic” was the reason for the ritualistic dispensing of the iron supplement.
I still remember the complete delight as I felt the strength and energy welling up inside me as

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Exercise in Winter by Andries Lodder

by Tabitha Hume 2011-06-21

The benefits of exercise go without saying, increased fitness, stamina and weight loss, but the advantages of frequent exercise go much deeper, especially during these winter months.Let’s be honest, leaving the house in winter is difficult, let alone exercising, its cold and dull and everything you do during these months just seems like an effort, exercise might just be the “get up and go” medicine everyone’s been looking for.

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Why do you comfort eat?

by Tabitha Hume 2011-02-04

The hunger urge is extremely powerful. If we deny ourselves the satisfaction of the need for food, this need becomes an addiction.
We all have a fair perception about drug addiction. It is an insatiable need for a substance that produces powerfully pleasurable effects, so powerful that when the effect wears off, the user must have another fix.

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