A systematic review of research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a peer-reviewed American Heart Association journal, found that losing weight with lifestyle changes in an intensive behavioural weight loss programme was linked to a decrease in risk factors for cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes for at least five years - even if some weight was regained. In …
When England’s Food Standards Agency boss Susan Jebb recently compared eating cake at work to passive smoking, office cubicle walls across the land quivered. Employees in Sweden seem to believe this is true: Fika is a daily social event based around sharing food at work – mainly cakes and other sweet dishes. Let them eat cake Indeed, much of the …