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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
A little real food crusader!
One of my Healthy Living Club members posted a blog about her 9 year old daughter discovering what was really in her lollies. Children are very intuitive and with some education and guidance from their parents, they can discover so much about the foods we eat and decipher what is good and what is bad. […]
Confessions of a Frustrated Pharmacist
I absolutely loved this story when I read it, as it reminded me of my own father who started off as a pharmacist and din’t like what he was seeing and how people were relying so much on medication. He was determined to not let his family grow up using medication. He got away from […]
9 Winter Habits To Help Keep Your Immune System Strong
Once again it’s flu season and once again the flu shot is being touted as your defense against the flu. I’m not even going to get into whether the flu shot works or not but what I’d like to make you aware of is the additives in a flu shot. I for one don’t feed […]
Inca Inchi Oil.
We are so excited to launch Inca Inchi Oil. I know it has been a much anticipated product and one that has taken us a while to have available. Like all my products, it is through the constant research of finding nutrient dense foods that lead me to this wonderful source of oil. This article […]
Do you know how Canola Oil is Made?
One of the first things that Changing Habits will tell you to do, is to stop consuming vegetable oils. We all might know that they are highly processed, though we don’t actually know why. Vegetable oils, like corn, canola, soy and sunflower (which are used in ‘vegetable’ oils), are alien to human physiology and toxic […]
