Apr 4, 2012 | Diets, Healthy Eating |
The Paleo Diet is getting a lot of airplay, especially in the US and there is a ground swell happening in Australia the UK and New Zealand. Basically the Paleo diet is meats, fish, greens and vegetables. Then there are many versions on the theme. Some say fruit can...
Mar 19, 2012 | Food Labelling |
This 13 minute video is an insight into how relaxed and misleading labelling laws can be. Urvashi Rangan an environmental house scientist and mother who works for consumer reports started looking into the labelling system both from a professional and personal...
Mar 7, 2012 | Medications/Vitamins, Pregnancy |
This month I was alerted via my facebook page CHANGING HABITS about a supplement company that had added hydrogenated vegetable oil, soy oil and vanillin to their pregnancy vitamin and mineral supplement. Julie Yuen one of the followers on the page alerted me to it. ...
Mar 6, 2012 | Body and Mind |
I was updating my talk recently and decided as part of my talk that I would discuss this issue of genetics vs environment with the gene for breast cancer. So I was researching and found quite a few articles on young women removing their breasts because they had been...
Feb 8, 2012 | Body and Mind |
I was watching a news report the other day and I can’t recall what the story was really about but there were a group of Australians being interviewed and I felt somewhat embarrassed that many of the people being interviewed were clearly very much overweight,...
