Healthy Eating & Exercise Advice
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 [...]
Are you getting enough folate in your diet? It’s really important that you do, especially if you are planning on becoming pregnant. Folate intake should be adequate prior to conception to decrease the risk of neural tube defects. For more information on folate and it’s role in the body please see my fact sheet on [...]
Healthy eating doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact it’s actually as simple as making good choices every day. Here are 10 easy food swaps you can make that will go a long way on keeping you healthy this summer. Enjoy! Use Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah), instead of rice or cous cous. Quinoa is gluten free, [...]
Calcium is an essential nutrient and is necessary for normal bone growth and tooth development. A large proportion of our population, particularly woman, are not getting enough calcium in their diet. This is a problem because long term calcium deficiency results in the disease osteoporosis. This disease is characterised by brittle bones that fracture easily [...]
One of the most common questions I am asked is: “Are carbohydrates bad for you?”. With so much conflicting information, the answer is not as simple as we would like it to be. So are they bad for you or not? What are they? Carbohydrates are a family of nutrients that provide the body with [...]
I’m sure you’ve all heard of vitamins and minerals, the nutrients found in food essential for good health. What you may not know is that food also contains other chemical components thought to promote health known as phytochemicals and zoochemicals. So what are these chemical wonders and how can they help me? Science is continuing [...]
Want to maintain a healthy weight, decrease storage of abdominal fat, keep your heart healthy and glow from the inside out? Including essential fats in your diet, particularly omega-3s, is a key component in the art of eating well. So how do we eat more omega-3? Here are 6 ways to boost your intake of [...]
Losing weight, eating healthy and enjoying food doesn’t have to be restrictive or difficult! Here are 8 easy food swaps you can make to improve your diet! Do it today!
We all know that we should eat more vegetables. Its irrefutable that they are good for us and that diets high in vegetables are protective again a huge range of diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. However, to be honest, sometimes they are hard to eat… especially when they’re served boiled and mushy… [...]
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