For the next 21 days I will be eating at least 5,000 calories a day! Using the conventional theory of calories in calories out I should put on just shy of 6kg of fat! My diet will consist of eggs, fish, meat, nuts and green vegetables. This makes my macro...

At Smash The Fat, our mission is to help as many people as possible to maintain a healthy lifestyle. So we decided to do some research to see if we could bust some myths regarding health, fitness, exercising, and eating well.

So what did we learn? Well, having...

For the past 40 years fat has been labelled as the bad guy in nutrition but growing evidence is showing that natural fat whether saturated or unsaturated has no detrimental effects on the human body and is actually beneficial for health if anything. Alongside all of this it appears that...

A couple of weeks ago Coca-Cola launched a new advert in the UK called Be OK! The advert offers consumers suggestions for activities which, when combined, can help to burn off the 139 calories in a can of Coca-Cola. Twenty-five minutes of walking a dog, 10 minutes of dancing, 75...

Calories are the main stay of conventional dietary advice but when we take a proper look at calories, they're not actually that scientific... (Feel free to watch the video of this article below!)

Calories were created in 1824 by Nicolas Clément and were originally used to measure heat, originating in...

When it comes to obesity we often say education is key, and absolutely it is, but we often think of just educating children and those of lower incomes but what about those on rather large incomes and more importantly in the positions of power to help reverse it?

I have...

These days it seems we are all looking for the next best bit of fitness equipment to do our exercise for us, whether it be a treadmill, crunch machine, wobbly shoes, or a vibrating platform. I mean I don't know how often you do squats in a constant earthquake, but...

On Monday a report called 'Measuring Up' was released by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges which outlined 10 suggestions to the government to help start reverse the obesity epidemic. Although I don't agree with everything in the report I did agree with the one that had everyone shouting from...

This morning I struggled to get out of bed to come to work, but from now on I will not be so complacent about life after speaking to David Andrew-Smith.

His Hollywood story of overcoming talipes equinovarus at birth, known as clubfoot, recovering from a vascular tumour in...

It was Socrates, the Greek philosopher, who said "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have laboured hard for." I can tell you for a fact that I have laboured incredibly hard to get to where I am today....

I was talking at a school in Hackney a couple of weeks ago about health and I asked the students "how do you live a healthy life?" I got the usual generic response of exercising regularly and eating healthily. I went on to ask how much is exercising regularly and...

Being British I never expect anything amazing to happen to us, and when I went to watch the Paralympics on Saturday I didn't expect anything spectacular to happen either... boy was I wrong! Sitting in the Olympic stadium I'd been watching some amazing athletes from around the world all morning....

Two years ago at the height of the recession I set up a fitness business in east London called Smash the Fat Fitness & Fat Loss Boot Camps with no budget, no experience of owning a business and sleeping on a rickety futon in my brother's wash room....