Powder Pushers… In an ideal world the Burn It blog would only be used a space to share happy stories and promote all the great schemes and incentives out there available to aid people in their health, happiness, and weight loss if so needed. However, it has almost become a warning tool and ideally each...Read More
Boris Johnson, whatever your opinion of him politically we can all hopefully agree he is not the man we would go to first for health advice. He’s been in the news a handful of times regarding his diet previously; to announce he was giving up carbs for January one year and another time to reveal...Read More
Keto dieting – it’s been hard to avoid hearing the term lately even if you haven’t been searching specifically for it. Every workplace, gym and social media feed has at least one person raving about their keto plan that you can pay to sign up to, or their keto pills you can buy. It’s gained...Read More
For everyone 2020 has been a weird year – for the majority it’s been confusing, sad and stressful; either at separate times or all at once and for a lot of people it’s difficult not to let emotions control our eating. Emotional eating isn’t always a bad thing – feeling proud of yourself after exercise...Read More
Lockdown 2.0 The previous lockdown post on how to get through a lockdown summer we were hoping would be all that was required… how to deal with a lockdown summer. Yet here we are with Lockdown 2.0 The Winter Edition. Depending where you live the restrictions may vary differently this time, but some things that...Read More
Right, the diplomacy is now out the window! How dare the government tell us one minute we need to lose weight and get healthy and their way of helping with this is to obscure the marketing to stop us getting tempted…and in the next breath shout ‘Half price McDonalds for everyone!’ The Eat Out to...Read More
It’s difficult to review a government policy without getting too politically opinionated, nevertheless let’s try… Last week we saw the UK Government Department of Health and Social Care release their new publication: Tackling obesity: empowering adults and children to live healthier lives. Some general questions to start with before we get into it: Are we...Read More
Despite all the pseudoscience being shared online around Covid-19 and how to avoid contracting it (again we’re eye-rolling those people pushing gargling salt water and drinking dark spirits to kill off the virus), we unfortunately can’t tailor our immunity through eating certain foods and carrying out certain practices to give it special powers against infections....Read More
The 2020 Covid-19 Great British Lockdown…we’re living it, whether you’re a key worker directly helping look after and cure those infected (thank you btw!), or indirectly working to keep the country going through deliveries, power suppliers, shop assistants etc, or doing your bit by staying at home to make everything easier and alleviate quicker, we’re...Read More
It is imminent, Winter is coming. The new year, new me mentality is almost here. We are about to ‘get back on it.’ Or are we? How many years have we failed to achieve our New Years resolutions? We would imagine, more than the amount of times we’ve succeeded at achieving our New Years resolutions,...Read More
