You’ve battled with weight loss and dieting all your adult life. Name a diet or food fad – if it exists, you’ve tried it. Yet despite all your efforts it just seems like you just can’t seem to keep the weight off. The weight keeps coming back with a vengeance, each time with a little […]
Now that we’re well and truly in the warmer months, the Big Marketing machine is in full swing preying on our body hang-ups in a bid to make a quick dollar. Just look on the cover of most magazines or morning show ad segments. Everyone has got some new diet or product that promises to […]
Thinking about our body fat may make a lot of us wriggle uncomfortably in our seats. Which is easy enough to understand, given how aggressively all those diets and “one simple trick/food/exercise” click-bait articles promising a shredded physique are being marketed to us on a daily basis. Not to mention all those pictures posted by Insta-famous influencers who […]
So… what is fatty liver? Picture this: You and three other people are working together as an efficient team in a small office space. Your job is to regularly check the computer screens and filter through all the incoming mail and data. Every now and then you’ll have to print out some documents and pass them on to […]
Who is keen for healthy meal ideas? Listen up people, we’re facing a crisis at the moment. Forget the “toxic” sugars or the evil gluten in our diets – there’s a more pressing matter! We, as a nation, are guilty of NOT EATING ENOUGH VEGETABLES!! Image Source The Australian Bureau of Statistics has recently […]
You’re mid-way through your pregnancy and your doctor has scheduled a routine test for gestational diabetes. You’re feeling pretty confident as you drink that awful sugary sweet test drink. Why shouldn’t you be? Diabetes doesn’t run in your family, you’ve never been obese and you feel like you eat fairly healthy. You’re totally going to […]
Have you ever felt like you’re struggling to keep the weight off, despite only eating “healthy food”? With so much conflicting nutrition “advice” floating around social and mainstream media, as well as clever marketing and advertising, you could almost be forgiven for being duped into thinking you were doing your waistline a favour by eating […]
We’ve all seen those ads on TV or in magazines for the various meal kit delivery companies. Each promising delicious food and convenience delivered to our doorstep. A couple of months ago I was provided the opportunity to give one of these companies a go, thanks to a nifty combination of promo codes. I signed […]
A couple of weeks ago I tuned in to ABC’s Catalyst 2-part special on the “Gut Revolution”. In the series they placed two individuals on experimental diets aiming to change the profile of their gut bacteria and improve their symptoms. For those who missed it, here’s a breakdown of the two participants and what they […]
Beetroot, Green Beans & Feta This delicious combination of beetroot, green beans and feta can be enjoyed as a side dish, or a larger serve as a light meal. Not only is packed full of flavour and healthy fats but beetroot is a great source of inorganic nitrate which has been shown to help […]
