Healthy Eating & Exercise Advice
I love cooking and I love the fact that as the seasons change so do our cooking methods and the type of fresh produce that we use. An important part of eating well is having adequate skills in the kitchen to turn whole fruit and vegetables into a meal that is tasty, healthy and something [...]
The summer months of the year always involve one of my favourite meals – Salad. Salads are a great way to ensure you’re eating plenty of fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes and seeds as well as healthy fats, protein and carbohydrate. When you start to be creative and begin trying new combinations, the skies the [...]
Fresh food; fruit, vegetables, meat, chicken, fish, milk, herbs etc are always the best choice when feeding yourself a healthy diet. The majority of my fortnightly food budget is spent on these fresh food items and I get them, in superb condition, delivered straight to my door, by a local fruit and vegetable company, Vegies [...]
Packed full of fibre, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and other phytochemicals, fruit is the perfect healthy snack, dessert or a sweet addition to a meal. I used to struggle to eat fruit. I’m not sure why, it just wasn’t a habit of mine to make it my first choice. Over the years, knowing the benefits from [...]
Fruit and vegetables are the corner stone of a healthy diet. You can’t eat well without them. Unfortunately, 90% of Australian adults are not meeting the Australian Dietary Guidelines for fresh food intake, which recommends 5 serves of vegetables and 2 serves of fruit every day. Meeting your daily fruit and vegetable serves has been [...]
There are so many reasons to regularly eat healthy food. Munching on a ‘super’ foods diet will help you lose weight, prolong your life, increase your energy levels, boost your immune system, decrease your risk of developing chronic disease, help in managing stress and much, much more! When it comes to eating a healthy diet, [...]
Even though you may not have heard the term ‘fortified food’ before doesn’t mean you don’t eat them. In fact, most of us eat fortified foods every day without even realising it. So what are they? Fortified foods are processed foods that have been ‘fortified’ or had vitamins and minerals added to them. In most [...]
Oats are a type of cereal grain that most of us know of as oatmeal or rolled oats. They are a highly nutritious food containing a number of compounds beneficial to our health. What makes them so good? Fibre Oats are a great source of fibre (7g of fibre in 100g of oats). The recommended [...]
Nutrition, just like fashion goes through different trends. Food trends. As new research becomes available, manufacturing technology advances and culture and society changes, the ‘what’s hot’ in the nutrition world changes too. Check out the blog Nutrition Unplugged for the latest 2011 food trends. A current trend over the past couple of years or so [...]
Have you ever wondered about whether you’re addicted to chocolate or that there’s something special about it that just makes you want to have more? It definitely seems to have some kind of power over us, that other foods don’t seem to have. If you want to know the truth about chocolate then check out [...]
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