Surviving the christmas parties.
Christmas is a hard time of year to stick to any eating regime, but the changing habits lifestyle is a great one to stick to around this time of year due to the fact I do have a cheating chapter in my book, but also when you feel good and have been feeling great […]
Obesity Epidemic- No time to weight!
I was listening to the finance segment with Ross Greenwood on the channel 9 Today Show recently. He was talking about the national debt in Australia and how soon, taxes would need to go up in order to pay the interest of the government loans. GST, personal and company tax would be affected. He said […]
A New Way to Look at Superfoods, the answer can be in your backyard!
Superfoods are foods that are high in nutrition, enhance the bodies health and enables it to work at peak performance. Â The word superfood is bantered around a lot and every time I see an article on superfoods the list is always different or there is a new found superfood from an ancient rain forest in […]
How To Change Your Health & Habits Forever
The Changing Habits, Fat Loss Protocol has been instrumental in changing people’s perception about the food they eat as well as dramatic weight loss and exciting health outcomes.  For people who follow the protocol and understand it, then continue the lessons learnt from the protocol into their life and eating habits – their lives and health […]
Creating your own Home Base.
A softball and baseball player knows that when they get to home base, they are safe. My house on the Sunshine Coast is my home base. I find my home the best place for me to go and rejuvenate after a day at work, a weekend speaking or time travelling. It’s a place I feel […]
10 Ways to Reduce Chemical Load Through Food
1. Eat foods that have no additives, preservatives, flavourings or numbers. 2. Read the ingredients on your labels of everything – e.g. milk may have MPC or calcium carbonate. 3 Avoid eating boxed breakfast cereals (no exceptions). 4. Hydrogenated, interesterified and fractionated vegetable oils – know what they are and how to identify them – […]
Fats – How to choose the best ones.
Fat was never a dirty word, before the 1960’s, lard or dripping on bread was a favourite, bacon and eggs were a traditional breakfast and the fat on the meat was a treat. Yet today many people have a fat phobia, making sure that it is not in the diet, hunting through the many packaged […]
How to choose a healthy chocolate!
1. Read the ingredients rather than the nutritional panel 2. If the ingredient list reads like a chemical laboratory or is extensively long – it’s not healthy – step away from the chocolate. 3. Milk and white chocolate use flavours and milk protein concentrates therefore can be dismissed immediately from being a healthy chocolate 4. […]
Flu season and vitamin C go hand in hand, but do you know what is in your Vitamin C?
Back in the 1980’s when I was a young nutrition consultant the super nutrient of the time was vitamin C. It seemed everyone was taking it to improve their immune system or to ward off colds and flus. People would even mega dose to the point of diarrhea, this was all the rage for many […]
Maternal Autoantibodies have link in Autism
A study just released in a Translational Psychology has found evidence that a mothers autoantibodies that interfere with fetal brain proteins during pregnancy may be responsible for around 25% of cases of autism ASD The article is worth reading, I’ve copied it at pasted it at the bottom of this blog as well […]
Vanilla, Vanilla, Vanilla!
Vanilla is one of those items which, although you don’t really think about being an essential everyday item, lends itself to a large variety of uses. I didn’t exactly seek out the Vanilla pod for its nutritional qualities in the beginning, I just wanted it for myself so I could make my own Vanilla essence […]
Too Much Fish Oil Might Boost Prostate Cancer Risk – Really?
The headlines are blaring that fish oil and omega 3 may cause an increase in prostate cancer, it’s the latest research. If you haven’t read the article, have a read here. But then last year I read Vitamin E caused an increase in prostate cancer, then the year before that it was folic acid then […]
Buying a Car, what does that have to do with health?
As a mother of three small children my car purchases were all about safety, reliability and size – I needed one that could not only hold the children but all the prams and gear I seemed to carry where ever I went. Now I’m an empty nester I still have the same needs in a […]
Inca Inchi – The Amazonian Seed with Potent Nutrition
For 1000’s of years the inca inchi plant has grown wild in the Amazon. Local and world renowned nutritionist and author Cyndi O’Meara discovers the hidden health benefits of the Peruvian ancient seed it produces. The inca inchi plant grows in Amazon and produces a large seed that is extremely rich in high quality […]
Could Baldness in a Young Man be Reduced by the Food Consumed?
My son came home from Canada a few months ago, he was about to turn 24 and was showing signs of male pattern baldness.  What hope does he have?  He has a father, and  two grandfathers that are bald as well as his two uncles.  There seemed to be no hair on the heads of men in our family. […]
How To Choose A Probiotic (bugs) and the Importance of Prebiotics (food)
Gut flora plays a key role in nutrition and the immune system. With the surge in antibiotics for every ailment and could be ailment (just in case) by the average person, the average gut flora has become a key problem in most peoples health and immune issues for children and adults. Without your gut flora […]
