Nutrition is one of the hardest elements of your ongoing health to get right. See Nuffield Health's expert articles giving you advice on making the right lifestyle decisions, and sticking with them.

The dangers of sitting all day

Being stationary throughout the day could be significantly impacting your health. Professional Head of Clinical Wellbeing, Jay Brewer, explains.

If you have a desk job, or another where you are stationary all day long you might want to take note of some of the sobering statistics about inactivity: 

Physical inactivity is now the fourth largest cause of death and disability in the UK. And people with high levels of sedentary time have been found to have a 112% increased risk of diabetes, 147% increased risk of cardiovascular death, and 49% increased risk of all-cause mortality.


Find out more about how sitting affects your health.

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Enjoy food more with these mindful eating tips

The ancient practice of mindful eating can enable us to enjoy the food we eat, maintain a healthy weight, and avoid a whole range of health problems. Tracey Strudwick explains.

Breaking unhealthy habits | 4 tips from a behaviour expert

Struggling to break bad habits and get healthy? Research Fellow and behaviour expert, Dr Sophie Attwood has four tips to boost your chances of success.

The real reasons your children won’t eat their greens

If your children refuse to eat certain foods, you’re not alone. Here's some of the most common reasons for fussy eating.

How to break 4 bad eating habits

Our brains are telling us to eat more while our bodies suffer for it. Research Fellow and behaviour expert, Dr Sophie Attwood explains four bad habits you’ve probably formed and how to break them.

Guided workout: Safe exercises for all pregnancy trimesters

This 20-minute workout, developed with Nuffield Health experts in pregnancy fitness, is designed to build strength and mobility to help you through labour and the demands of motherhood.