In this issue

This year saw the launch of the new Eatwell Guide, along with conflicting headlines on what should dominate our plates – fats or carbs. We look at the story behind the headlines and at why some experts disagree with the new guidelines.

We also unravel the facts from fiction in the myth of starvation mode, and find out why maintaining muscle mass is important for healthy weight-loss.

In Little Lives, we look at the growing battle against sugar and ask whether stealing candy from a baby really is as easy as the saying suggests. We also look at whether diet can make a difference to male fertility or in allergy-proofing your unborn child.

Brain cancer blogger Andrew Scarborough talks to us about his dietary experiments in the ongoing mission to improve his health, while our clinic case study looks at support for a busy business woman and mother who has been diagnosed with lupus.

In Different Strokes, we look at Emotional Freedom Technique – aka tapping – and whether it is really as good as some say.

All this in addition to recipes for gut health, research news and update, and much, much more!

Candy, Crusheo

Taking sweets from a child is supposed to be so simple that the phrase has even become a well-known saying. But how easy is it to wean your kids off the sugary stuff?

5 mins

Brain Food

Three years ago Andrew Scarborough was fit and active, working as a personal trainer, and studying at university. Then, his life changed. A brain haemorrhage and diagnosis of brain cancer left him searching for ways to improve statistically poor prospects. He spoke to Louise Wates about blogging and his ongoing self-experimentation with diet and new treatment

8 mins

Can Mums - To - Be Eat To Beat Allergies?

Atopic conditions such as asthma, eczema and allergic rhinitis (runny nose), along with allergic conjunctivitis, usually begin in childhood; but could diet during pregnancy help to allergy-proof future generations? Lisa Patient investigates

4 mins

Male Fertility

Affecting about 17 per cent of couples, infertility is generally defined as the inability to conceive after 12 months of unprotected intercourse. Male infertility accounts for half of these cases, often as a result of poor quality sperm connected to lifestyle and diet choices,

4 mins

Calming A 'Confused' Immune System

Nicola Moore explains a functional medicine approach towards the autoimmune disease lupus

6 mins

Summer Of

Summer is when we want to be out and about, as the warm embrace of the sofa on a cold winter’s night becomes a distant memory. So where do you go when the brain is willing but the body just can’t cut it at the same level of performance that it managed decades ago? Graeme Wilcockson reviews a few ways to satisfy those competitive weekend instincts that will tax both mind and body — yet leave you able to move on Monday morning

7 mins

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Optimum Nutrition Magazine Description:

ION's quarterly printed magazine is an essential read for anyone wanting to understand more about the role of nutrition and exercise in health and disease.