the working muscles, making it very difficult to digest anything at this time. The more intensive the exercise, the more blood will be shunted away.It’s important that food clears your stomach before you run. Any undigested food may irritate the gut lining

and aim to create a calorie deficit of around 500kcal per day in order to lose 500g (one pound) of body fat over the course of a week. Most women typically expend around 2,000kcal every day (which is why it often appears on food labels as an official guide

” hormones, such as DHEA, which alter where body fat is stored. While your diet may not have changed much, certain foods can have a bigger impact on weight gain as you age. Keep your belt buckle on the same hole with the following strategies. Pack in produce

training. There are three main types of omega-3s: alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) – found in certain plant foods such as pumpkin seeds and flaxseed oil, eicosapaentanoic acid (EPA) and docosapentaenoic acid (DPA). The only significant source of the latter two

. This represents a stupendous amount of food. It exceeds the gross annual consumption of the entire population of Mali. To comply, you must lug around your bodyweight in filthy, freeze-dried risotto and energy bars of the size and consistency of breeze blocks

the job, except they rot your teeth. And if you overdo it, the liquorice gives you the trots. – SFC You do realise there's no such thing as non-fattening energy? Any food that gives you energy is going to be fattening if you eat more than you can use right

10-mile jaunts – before breakfast, before lunch, before tea and before supper. Why not walk two miles and jog the rest. Follow each session with a drink, a shower and some food. A daily massage would also be a big help. From Christmas to mid-April you

more prone to muscle injury. Consuming low-GI carbohydrates soon after exercise will help recovery – foods such as fruit, oats, rye bread and some nuts fall into this category.—Judith Pitt-Brooke, East Midlands Physiotherapy Clinic, Loughborough

This week, a first-thing fuel conundrum..."I'm training for a marathon, and I struggle with my early morning runs. I simply don't have time to get up, eat, and wait two hours before I can run. Do you have any advice on food that can be eaten, say

Strengthen – and loosen – those abdominalsI've suffered the same problem for about 10 months now, so I know how frustrating it is. Like you, in my experience it's not food/breathing/drinking/carrying stuff related. The only time I don't get it is if I'm running ONLY