Closer Diets

Online diets work!

If the recent snow and frost has kept you indoors and put your healthy eating resolution on hold then we have the perfect solution for you. You can avoid traipsing through the snow and ice to attend meetings by accessing your diet programme online, you can even have your diet... Read more.

What type of eater are you?

Ever noticed that almost anything to do with dieting is aimed at women? Why is that? It is estimated that currently almost 22% of men and 25% of women in the UK are obese, so surely weight loss strategies should be aimed almost equally at males and females, not just the latter. Read more.

What's your nutrition IQ?

How nutrition savvy are you? You may know the latest football scores or keep up-to-date with the soaps, but do you know your polyunsaturates from your trans saturates? Will eating grapefruit with every meal really burn off extra calories? And is that slice of white bread really the best thing since... Read more.

Calorie cutting swaps

Dieting is a word that conjures up images of salad leaves and rejected treats. No one is surprised by how easy it is to knock up calories, yet when it comes to reducing them the majority of us find it exceptionally difficult. If you are following a diet, you have to cut out all those foods that are tasty... Read more.

How to set up a home gym

Hectic schedule? Chaotic lifestyle? Don’t want to pay “through the nose” for an expensive gym membership and contend with waiting for equipment? And, you actually DO want to work out. You’re the perfect candidate for a home gym. Read more.

Workplace diet traps

Oh, the diet traps that can catch even the best-intentioned dieter in the workplace: the bowl of sweets on the receptionist's desk, the vending machine in the coffee area and the weekly let's-all-go-to-lunch-at-the-pizza-palace bash are just some of the obstacles. Read more.

Food combining myths

There is no scientific proof that the human body needs to separate out protein and carbohydrate foods at different meals because it cannot cope with digesting them together. Read more.