What We Can Learn From Wise Traditions
Road Trippin’ Good Granola Bars – by Me & My Travel Bugs
For those adventurous souls planning a road trip over the holidays, Bella from Me & My Travel Bugs shares her favourite travel-friendly granola bar recipe. Preparing your own snacks goes a long way to helping you stay healthy on the road, and is one of Bella’s top tips for better travels: Make your own snacks […]
Antibiotics in Our Food: How They Affect Us and How to Avoid Them
Antibiotics have their place in the world – they were founded for a good reason and have helped many people. However, their misuse and overuse is concerning. Doctors are prescribing antibiotics up to 9 times more than they should according to the current guidelines, with over 4 million individuals receiving a prescription which may not […]
Why Nightshade Foods Can Be Problematic
Did you know that some nightshade foods may actually be causing inflammation in your body? This group of foods baffled me for a long time. How could something natural—like tomatoes or eggplants—that have been around for countless years and which people have not tampered with or changed in any way, be causing inflammation? Nightshade foods […]
Have you watched Cyndi’s TEDx Talk – What’s With Wheat?
Sometimes when you chat to people about their health, they often say that they can’t change because of their genes replying ‘My Mum’s overweight, so that’s why I’m heavy too, it’s in my genes’ or ‘My dad had a heart attack at 45, so now I’m prone to heart disease too.’ Some people just accept […]
4 Techniques to Successfully Change Your Children’s Eating Habits
I’ve changed my habits – but what about my kids?You’ve made some healthy changes yourself, but what about your family? Where once you may have thought of your children’s diet as relatively healthy, you now look at it from a whole new and informed perspective, and see...
Nutritional Traditions – Are We Losing Them?
The rich cultural tradition of food and most importantly the concept of using basic nutrition principles to raise our children, is something I am so passionate about. I believe that over the years, we as a society have done everything we can to complicate the issue and as parents, we are now left completely confused […]
10 Fermented Food Recipes That Your Kids Will Love
We understand that it can be a real challenge to get kids to eat nutritious, real food, and that’s before you start consuming fermented food. Below are a few simple tips to start to introduce these foods into your diet, so they can benefit from the probiotic bacteria. Tips to encourage children to consume more […]
Stop Masking Your Symptoms And Start Listening To Them
Do you have frequent pains in your body, such as headaches, aches and pains, hay fever, fatigue, anxiety, skin rashes and inflammation? What if these pains and symptoms in your body, were actually a way for your body to communicate with you. It has been ingrained within us to stop listening to these symptoms, to […]
5 Tips For Preparing Your Body For Pregnancy
How I Lost 40kg In One Year and Became a Weight Loss Coach
It was 2011. My highest known weight was 122kgs. I say highest ‘known’ weight because I stopped weighing after this point. I was morbidly obese, I felt sick and depressed. I didn’t have the energy to play with my children. I had high blood pressure and was...
9 Healthy Eating Habits to Keep You Satisfied & Energized
If you struggle with healthy eating, you are not alone. It’s way too tempting to buy a pastry at your favorite cafe to compliment your coffee, or to pick up a chocolate bar on the way out of the pharmacy. And besides, who has time to eat a balanced meal these days? There are so […]
4 Nutrition Tips for Enhancing Exercise Performance
All levels of exercise will vary with each person and therefore, nutrient requirements will also vary. However, within this article I will point out some main points to consider to enhance your health and performance. There are many sports gels, protein powders, supplements and the like that contain an array of dubious ingredients that are […]
Optimal Zinc Levels May Change Your Life
I wish I discovered my zinc deficiency earlier, as it made that much of a difference to my life. After a lot of healing many years ago, my health improved, however after I discovered zinc, everything got a whole lot better. My concentration increased, I became even calmer, had more stamina, my occasional pimples on […]
How to Find Love … in Cooking
