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A lot of nutrition books and general advice have been created with the ‘average’ person in mind. These do not take into account the additional needs of certain groups within the population. It is therefore important to have an understanding of how your dietary recommendations may impact upon these specific groups and know how to adjust

The Paleo Diet, or hunter-gatherer diet is based on foods Palaeolithic humans would have eaten. This type of eating is also known as primal or caveman.The Paleo diet consists of real, whole foods so it focuses primarily on fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, eggs, nuts and seeds. It therefore eliminates a whole range of processed or man-made

Carb Backloading (CBL) has become yet another highly talked about modern nutrition protocol over the last number of years. Carb Backloading, like many of the modern nutrition protocols goes against traditional nutrition and dieting recommendations. Tradition tells us that we must eat our carbohydrates early in the day, otherwise the energy from this will not be

What is dietary fibre? Fibre is a complex carbohydrate made up of non starch polysaccharides, resistant starches and/or cellulose. Dietary fibre used to be known as ‘roughage’, and refers to a group of substances in plant foods which cannot be completely broken down by human digestive enzymes. In this this article you will learn what

I often get asked “Ru, are you the Paleo, intermittent fasting, or the ‘insert any other well known diet’ coach?” My response: All wrong. I am focused on personalization and you should do this too; this is one of the fundamental components to becoming a great nutrition coach. Is there really one ‘right way’ to