Cellulite. Despite what you may have heard, it is not ‘toxic waste products’ or ‘bad fat’ and nor is it exclusive to fat people. It describes deposits of dimpled fat, and it is normal for a woman to have some cellulite at some point during their lives. In fact, it can affect women of all…
Wheatgrass – Wonderful ? Or A Woeful Waste Of Your Wealth?
Wheatgrass shots- dark green juice shots squeezed from young wheat shoots- have become incredibly popular recently. But are they a health miracle or another marketing myth? Does wheatgrass boost red blood cell production and flood your tissues with oxygen? Nonsense- there is no scientific evidence supporting this claim. Chlorophyll (a compound found in green plants…
Clearing up the confusion surrounding ‘clean – eating’
Despite wide use of the term ‘clean-eating’ on social media, there is no official agreement as to what ‘clean eating’ actually means. To learn more about clean-eating, read our previous post: The dirty truth behind ‘clean eating’ ‘Clean-eating’ is a term used by many wellness bloggers and self styled nutrition experts and generally incorporates the following…
A Breafast Trend on Trial: Sweet Potato Toast
Following in the footsteps of cauliflower pizza and courgetti, ‘sweet potato toast’ is the latest clean eating food fad to be sweeping the web. With more and more people (unnecessarily) cutting gluten out of their diets, it would seem that sweet potato toast is the next best breakfast option. Or is it?! Yes, sweet potatoes…
Is drinking Silybum (milk-thistle) as silly as it sounds?
The tea alone will NOT improve liver function, (and sadly) nor will is give you flawless skin- that’s as silly as it sounds!
DNA DIETS – DO NOT BE DECEIVED!
Many companies such as DNAFit and NurtiFit are offering a diet plan tailored specifically to your DNA and it sounds very appealing. You swab the inside of your mouth with a cotton bud, post your sample to a laboratory, and two weeks later you have a report detailing your optimal diet; the best and…
Vitamin Water: They taste good and appear healthy- what’s the verdict?
Vitamin-fortified drinks tend to imply that there is some kind of hidden benefit- be it that extra ‘focus’, ‘energy’, or ‘shine’. For the most part, this is due to clever marketing ploys, sleek websites, and beautiful packaging. Unfortunately, the use of ‘water’ in the product name, creates an illusion that this is a purely natural…
Juice Plus – ‘The next best thing to fruit and veg’ …..More fad than fact?
Unfortunately, good health cannot be captured in a pill
8 Hot Nutrition Topics According To International Nutrition Experts
A summary of the key messages discussed at The International Congress of Dietetics 2016
ELLE UK removes misleading nutritional advice: Petition Success!
An update on our petition against ELLE UK for the removal of misleading nutritional information
Fight the Fad’s website goes LIVE!
We are pleased to announce that our website is now up and running! Please subscribe in order to receive our regular posts straight to your inbox. We will continue to debunk nutritional myths and misconceptions whilst also sharing the latest nutritional headlines with you. Our Facebook posts will now be short summaries of our website…
The Chia Seed trend: a crazy concept?!
More often than not, the term ‘super-food’ is used in a way that creates a false idea of miraculous, ‘super-healing’ powers. However, to dismiss all the health claims associated with so these called ‘super foods’ as ‘wishful thinking’ or ‘nifty marketing’ is hasty. Over the next couple of weeks we will be delving deeper into…
