Following on from my recent childhood obesity blog Obesity in Children it got me thinking about a method used in measuring both adults and children’s health. BMI, and is it really all that? Read More
You may have read about it on social media or in the news, obesity in children is on the increase, and its time we did something about it. By ‘we’ I mean from the top to the bottom, Government, food companies (I wish), right through to us as parents. There is a lot we can do in terms of taking responsibility for our own health and that of the future generation. Read More
We all know we should be eating our fruit & vegetables but do you know the exact benefits to some of the fruit & veg you consume? Not sure? No worries lets get in to some detail. Read More
You’ve set your New Years resolutions and promised yourself this year is the year. A new me. With this in mind I want to clear something up.
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Who’s reading this and thinks ‘eating healthy is bland and boring’?
When it comes to nutrition and food choices there are a few basic things we can do to make things more exciting such as flavouring food with herbs and spices. But one thing that’s very important and can be a simple thing to implement, is nutritional variety. Read More
Hopefully you’re reading this before you’ve spent a shed load of money on a stack of supplements. Now, before I expand, supplements have a place in a fitness regime or protocol but should they be the priority over other aspects? Read More
There is so much information out there when it comes to health and fitness it can be difficult to know which information to pick out. One thing we fail to do when thinking about which piece of equipment to buy or the best ‘diet’ to go on, is use our common sense. Read More
If you’ve read some of our other blogs you’ll know here at Optimum 3 we like to dispel some of those awful myths within the health & fitness industry. In this one we wanted to cover foods that you should be eating, that you may have been told you shouldn’t. Read More
When it comes to cooking wholesome tasty food it can be quite easy to overthink it and make things more complicated than it needs to be. Read More