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You can check your blood pressure at the chemist or in many GP waiting rooms in the UK. If you are 140/90 - this is defined as having hypertension or high blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure you need to: - eat less processed/ultra-processed foods (see my blog on this subject) - reduce sugar and salt consumption - exercise more (in particular walking, cycling, swimming and avoiding higher-intensity exercises such as HIIT, running and heavy weights) - include beetro

The 'It' word these days is Protein. I see it dotted about all over packaging in the supermarkets right now - even in the confectionery aisle. So does this mean that chocolate bars give you muscles and keep you fuller for longer? Unfortunately not. This is often products packaged in shiny new ways, where food manufacturers use (or abuse?) nutritional information to make their products more appealing, or adapt their recipes to adhere to UK labelling laws. Sorry to be the bear

You may have recently heard of ultra-processed foods and their link to cancer in the news, so what is this all about? Researchers from the French Research Institute have been studying the diet, activity, health status and other factors of 160,000 participants since 2009. This study found that when we increase our consumption of ultra-processed foods by 10%, this increases our risk of cancer by more than 10%. This data also took into account factors such as genetically-related