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Hate Supplements? You’ve Been Taking Them Most of Your Life

By Matt Brereton-Patel / September 28, 2014 June 22, 2020

To supplement or not to supplement? Periodically I get a new client at my personal training gym here in Manchester who arrives with a particularly negative attitude toward supplementation. Usually this disastrously misguided individual has been informed by the many media articles put out by misinformed (or just plain ignorant) GPs and other so called specialists. I …

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Great Abs Are Made In The Kitchen

By Matt Brereton-Patel / September 20, 2014 June 22, 2020

Think that to get great abs you need to do 100 crunches a day? Think again. ‘Great abs are made in the kitchen’ is the backbone of the Optimised Personal Training flat stomach program. So what does it mean? Some people think you need to get up at 5am and do 100 stomach crunches to get a …

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Fat Facts: Start Your Oil Change Today

By Dee Brereton-Patel / July 30, 2014 June 22, 2020

Will eating fat make your body fat and sick? One of the biggest nutritional misconceptions today is that dietary fat is bad news and that it is associated with heart disease and cancer. Dietary fats generally do not make you fat. Well no more so than eating copious amounts of any other macronutrient. In fact, the macronutrient …

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The Whole Fat Story

By Matt Brereton-Patel / March 22, 2014 June 22, 2020

Exposing The Myth That Fat Makes You Fat, Raises Cholesterol, Blocks Arteries, And Causes Heart Disease Dietary fat, and especially saturated fat, has become a controversial and deeply misunderstood issue. Fat has been an integral and essential dietary element for every animal and mammal, including humans, over the course of evolution. Since the 1950’s, public …

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Optimised Personal Wellness – Top 10 Superfoods

By Matt Brereton-Patel / February 11, 2014 June 21, 2020

All foods are not created equal… Your Mum spent half her adult life worrying about helping you grow up big and strong. Do her proud and check out our Top 10 Superfoods that will help to keep you that way… 1/ Grass fed, wild and game meat Compare grass fed or wild meat to commercially …

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Say Goodbye To Stubborn Fat and Boost Your Energy

By Matt Brereton-Patel / January 5, 2014 June 21, 2020

All the exercise in the world can be worthless if you don’t get this right… We all know it’s important to detoxify our lives from time to time, but how many of us directly connect our toxic load with how much fat we carry, especially stubborn fat? And how many of us directly connect the …

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10 Ways To Get The Body You Want Smarter and Faster

By Matt Brereton-Patel / January 3, 2014 June 21, 2020

Get a lean, healthy body with these smart tips With a few small tweaks, you can make your workout smarter, more interesting, more effective, and get the body you want faster. What’s not to like?! 1/ Plan If you go into the gym without a specific plan that is in line with your goals, you’re …

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Orange Juice: Really a Healthy Choice?

By Matt Brereton-Patel / October 11, 2013 June 21, 2020

Orange juice is big business, but is it good for your health? Orange juice is often perceived as one of those universal ‘good things’, a bit like Santa Claus, the tooth fairy and sunny afternoons in the park. Of course, orange juice is very big business, and the specialist ad agencies behind advertisements for orange …

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Checking in Some Extra Post-Holiday Baggage?

By Matt Brereton-Patel / September 2, 2013 June 21, 2020

It’s back to reality with a bang – or a wobble With lots of Optimised clients returning from their summer holidays and facing their first post-holiday assessment (and some who are still away and are emailing me to confess their sins – you know who you are!), many are amazed to find that they haven’t …

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How To Succeed: If You Always Do What You’ve Always Done…

By Matt Brereton-Patel / June 26, 2013 June 21, 2020

Optimise your mindset for success If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always be who you’ve always been. The other day Optimised’s Matt Brereton-Patel was at the dentist, talking to the dental technician. She had made a few New Year’s resolutions and one of them was to get to the gym four times a …

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