Chin Hairs, Breakouts And A Thicker Middle
Coarse hairs on your chin, spots along your jaw, and a waist that has thickened. In your forties these often share one cause. Here is how insulin nudges your hormones, and what helps.
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Doesn't Spike Doesn't Mean Fine
Bacon does not raise your blood sugar, and fruit sometimes does. Neither fact tells you which one is good for you. Here are three foods where the spike test gets it wrong.
Read moreFive Signs Your Insulin Is Running High
Your blood sugar test came back normal, and you still feel off. Insulin can run high for years before blood sugar moves. Here are five signs worth noticing.
Read morePower Is The First Thing To Go
You hesitate before stepping off a high kerb. You grab the rail on the stairs. It is not strength you are losing first, it is power. Here is why it matters, and how to keep it.
Read moreSeven Signs Your Progesterone Is Dropping
Lying awake at eleven, awake again at four, on edge the week before your period. These can all trace back to one hormone. Here are the signs, and what is yours to work with.
Read moreTen Foods For A Stressful Week
Cortisol is useful in small doses and hard on you when it stays high. Food cannot take the stress away, but it can support how you handle it. Here are ten that help.
Read moreThe Fruit Bowl, Ranked For Steady Energy
Fruit is good for you, and it is not all the same. Some carry more fibre than sugar, some the other way round. Here is the order, and how to eat the rest.
Read moreWhat Insulin Actually Does, In Plain English
Glucose is the fuel. Insulin is what lets it into your cells. Here is how the two work together, why the system gets harder to run with age, and what helps.
Read moreWhat Is Actually In Your Cereal
Whole grain, heart healthy, good source of fibre. Then you turn the box over. Here is how to read a cereal label in thirty seconds, and why you are hungry again by ten.
Read moreWhat To Drink Instead Of The Three O'Clock Can
A can of regular soda is about ten teaspoons of sugar with nothing to slow it down. Here is what it does, what to drink instead, and why to swap one a day.
Read moreWhy Grazing All Day Keeps You Hungry
Six small meals were meant to keep you steady. For many women they do the opposite. Here is what happens when food never stops, and how to give your body a gap.
Read moreWhy The Middle Changes After Forty
Same food, same walks, and the waistband still got tighter. It is not effort. Here is what changes in the middle after forty, and what helps it.
Read moreWhy Thin Is Not The Same As Healthy
Two women can weigh the same and be in very different places inside. It comes down to how much fat your body can store safely, and where the rest goes.
Read moreWhy Your Joints Ache In Your Forties
Stiff first steps out of bed, sore knees on the stairs, and nothing to show for it on an X-ray. Falling estrogen can be part of the reason. Here is what helps.
Read moreStrength Moves For Steadier Hormones
Muscle is where most of the glucose you eat gets stored, which makes it the one tissue worth protecting in your forties. Eight moves, no gym, and none of them are about burning anything off.
Read moreSix Things To Reach For At Four O'Clock
One idea, six versions of it. What to have in the house so the four o'clock decision is already made, and why the biscuit never actually stops the hunger.
Read moreOne Steady Day, Hour By Hour
What a day looks like when the energy holds. Morning to bedtime, with the reason for each part, and the two hours that decide most of it.
Read moreThree Things That Flatten The Spike
Why lunch takes your afternoon away, explained properly, and the three things that change it. None of them ask you to eat anything less than you eat now.
Read moreAdding Is Not Swapping
You added the seven good foods to the same week you were already having, and nothing happened. That is the most common way a list article fails, and it is fixable in one move.
Read moreBeans At Lunch Make Dinner Easier
Almost everything about steady energy works within one meal. This is the one thing that reaches forward: what you eat at lunch changes how your body handles what you eat at seven.
Read moreEating Cholesterol Is Not The Same Thing
One word covers two different things, and the mix-up cost a generation of women their breakfast. Here is what your body actually builds out of it.
Read moreFrozen Is Not A Compromise
The freezer aisle is cheaper, and in several cases the food in it was picked riper than the fresh version. Here is where frozen wins, and the three places it genuinely does not.
Read moreHow To Read A Protein Bar Label
The front of the packet is advertising. The back is information. Six things to look at on a protein bar, and what a tin of sardines costs by comparison.
Read moreIt Can Start In Your Thirties
Your periods are regular, you are nowhere near fifty, and something has changed anyway. That combination is more common than almost anyone tells you.
Read moreIt Was Never Willpower
Two separate things are happening when a craving arrives at nine in the evening, and neither of them is a character flaw. One is in the food. The other is in how your body is reading its fuel supply.
Read moreMore Fibre Is Not The Answer, Different Fibre Is
You added the fibre and nothing much happened. That is a real result, and it usually means the total went up while the variety stayed the same. Here is the difference.
Read moreSix Things You Were Told That Are Not True
Six pieces of advice that get repeated until they sound like facts. Each one has a grain of truth in it, and each one has stopped somebody from doing the thing that would have helped.
Read moreStill Hungry Forty-Five Minutes Later?
One question, asked about an hour after a meal, tells you more about that meal than any device will. Here is how to run it properly and what each answer actually means.
Read moreTwo Bowls Of Oatmeal
Oatmeal is not one food. Two bowls can share a name and behave nothing alike by eleven o'clock. Here is what separates them, and how to rebuild the one you already eat.
Read moreWhy You Are Still Tired
You sleep eight hours and wake up flat. Five things sit underneath that, and only one of them is about how long you were in bed. Here is what to look at first.
Read moreWhy You Crash At 2pm
There are two reasons the afternoon falls apart, and they are near opposites. One is a dip that follows a rise. The other is not eating enough earlier. Here is how to tell which one is yours.
Read moreWeight Is Usually The Last Thing To Change
Three weeks in and the scale has not moved, so you are about to stop. Here is what changes before it does, and why the number is the slowest instrument you own.
Read moreYour Gut Adapts To What You Feed It
You changed how you ate and felt worse, so you stopped. There is a reason for that, and it is not that you failed. Your gut was staffed for the old menu.
Read moreFive Things That Are Actually One Thing
The afternoon wall, the cravings, the puffy mornings, the second wind at ten. You have been dealing with these as five separate problems. They tend to travel together for a reason.
Read moreSeven Food Swaps That Cost Less
The shelf marked healthy is usually the expensive one. Seven ordinary swaps that steady your energy and take money off the weekly shop rather than adding it.
Read moreThe Symptoms No One Warned You About
Itching ears. A burning tongue. Words that go missing mid-sentence. The odd list of things women report in their forties, and why so many of them turn out to be connected.
Read moreThe Worry List
One page, a line down the middle, four minutes at the kitchen table. The smallest thing on this site, and the one people come back and tell us about.
Read moreWhy Prunes Actually Work
Your grandmother was right, and there is a specific reason. Plus five other things that get a slow gut moving, including one that costs nothing and works tonight.
Read moreWhy You Wake Up At 3am
Awake at ten past three, not worried about anything, just awake. If that happens most nights, the reason may have less to do with your sleep than with what you ate at seven.
Read moreFive Healthy Habits Worth Questioning
Five things you were told to do that are working against the thing you wanted. None of this is an assessment of you. All five were sensible advice aimed at a different problem.
Read moreNot All Protein Counts The Same
Two meals can carry the same grams of protein and deliver very different amounts of usable protein. Here is what the gap is, and how to close it without changing how you eat.
Read moreRunway To Land The Plane
Your head nods on the sofa at half ten and you are wide awake by 11:40. The problem is usually not the bed. It is that nothing came between the day and the bed.
Read moreSeven Foods That Keep Blood Sugar Steady
Seven ordinary foods, and what each one actually does. None of them are unusual, none of them are expensive, and there is one idea underneath all seven.
Read moreStrict Is What Causes The Binge
The Tuesday night that undoes the week is not a character problem. Rigid rules produce the collapse that follows them, and there is a version of this that does not break.
Read moreThe Order You Eat It In
The same lunch can leave you steady until dinner or hunting the cupboard at three. Often the difference is not what was on the plate but which part of it went in first.
Read moreThe Spice Aisle
Cinnamon, fenugreek and broccoli sprouts, and what each one is doing. Also the label detail that decides which cinnamon is worth having every day.
Read moreWhat Is Actually In Your Sweetener
Two packets in the same aisle both say stevia on the front and contain almost entirely different things. Here is how to read the back, and which one suits which job.
Read moreWhy Cutting Carbs Can Wreck Your Sleep
You changed how you eat and started waking at four in the morning, wide awake and warm. That is not a coincidence, and it is not a reason to give up on the change.
Read moreWhy Walking After A Meal Works
Ten minutes after lunch sounds too small to matter. It is not. Working muscle can pull sugar out of the blood by a route that does not wait for anything else to be working well.
Read moreYou Can Still Eat Potatoes
Cooking a potato and cooling it overnight changes how it behaves the next day. The same is true of rice and pasta. Nothing has to leave the plate.
Read moreYou Do Not Have To Give Anything Up
Every plan you have tried started by taking something away. There is another way to do this, and it is the one thing every article on this site has in common.
Read moreYour Morning Starts The Night Before
You wake up heavy, foggy and hungry after a full night's sleep, having eaten nothing since eight. What happens overnight is set by the evening, and four parts of the evening are yours.
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