Opportunity Knocks Many Times – When Will You Answer?
Throughout my life I’ve been given many opportunities to change the direction of my life, some I’ve taken and others I’ve left behind. At Changing Habits, we give many opportunities to people to change the direction not only of their health, but their life. Take the...
The Devil We Know – DuPont’s Dirty Secret
At 19 years old, my Aunt Bobby gave me a yoghurt culture that she was given by a Lebanese lady. It was an old traditional culture and I treasured it. I made yoghurt in my glass thermos every other day to keep it alive. It always held its strength and the yoghurt was...
Mental Health and the Healthy Keto Way
I always joke to my husband that I have a new boyfriend or a new best friend (usually the author of a book I’m reading). My current boyfriend is Ross Ellenhorn. Ross is the author of How We Change (And Ten Reasons Why We Don’t). As I’m reading this book my head is...
Cholesterol Readings and the Healthy Keto Way
Over the past 30 years I’ve talked a lot about cholesterol. I’ve written a report on it, I’ve compiled questions to ask your doctor about blood cholesterol readings and medications to lower cholesterol and I write about it in my book Lab To Table. Now I find myself...
An Open Letter to Rich Roll About Just Eggs
I love listening to the Rich Roll Podcast. He does long interviews and you really get to know his guests. It was Rich Roll’s first interview with Zac Bush that prompted me to follow Dr Bush, then meet him in Melbourne and invite him to speak at The Nutrition Academy...
An Unknown Future: Why We Should Create Health Now
Last May, my brother Marcus called me to tell me that his eight-year-old son had been vomiting on and off for three days and he was concerned. He asked me what he should do. Let me first explain why I said what I did and why my brother waited three days before he was...
What Did I Learn After My Latest Round of The Fat Loss Protocol?
I love The Fat Loss Protocol. I do it yearly as a check in to stop me becoming complacent with my eating habits. The first time I did the protocol was late November 2012, leading into Christmas. So, in 2020, I decided to do it at the same time. The thing I love about...
Food Irradiation – Why I Say ‘No’
The war on germs has gone unchecked. Last year, the narrative was to wash your hands, wear a mask and stay 1.5 metres from each other. This narrative may work if we support the theory that a virus causes disease. However, what about the terrain theory which says that...
Fermenting Foods on the Healthy Keto Way
Sometimes I feel like I’m fighting an unwinnable battle regarding the health and safety of our foods. Irradiation of fruits and vegetables in Australia is now on the agenda and more and more genetically modified microbes are being created to manufacture plant-based...
12 Steps To an Impactful 2021
In her latest blog, Cyndi explains why (and how) we should use the last twelve months as a catalyst to create impactful change in 2021. Read more here.
Why I Still Eat Fructose
Fructose is one of a long list of foods to be demonised. But it's not that black and white. To understand why fructose is not all bad, first, let's take a look at the food norms a few decades ago, when I was growing up.I was born in 1960. My Mum was American and the...
Plant-Based Meats – A ‘Healthier Choice’?
I received a press release from Frontier Foods with the heading ‘Plant-Based Meat: A Healthier Choice?’.Immediately I frowned at the audacity of the suggestion that this could have any truth behind it - the suggestion that plant-based meats are healthier than meat,...
Thaumatin and Monk Fruit: The Truth About These Sweeteners
I was talking with my daughter Tarnea the other day, she had something in her pantry that had thaumatin and monk fruit in it. I shared my research about thaumatin with her and she got mad at me. I decided not to go on with telling her about my monk fruit...
When Eggs Aren’t Eggs: Beware Fake Foods
We had someone ask us about the new JUST plant-based egg substitute. I hadn’t seen it but now that I have, I cannot un-see the shitstorm of chemicals that make up this egg substitute!My advice is don’t go there. Remember, the food industry are masters at making food...
Nutritional Yeast: To Eat or Not to Eat?
Back in the 1980’s in order to get natural B vitamins the trendy thing to do was to consume brewer’s yeast or torula yeast.Brewer’s yeast was my choice because it was the byproduct of beer brewing. Torula yeast, on the other hand, was grown on wood liquor, rich in the...
The Healthy Keto Way – Our NEW lifestyle program!
I studied Dietetics at Deakin University in the early 1980’s. Looking back I learnt nothing that is appropriate for today’s health debacle. What I learnt about was low-fat diets, the food pyramid, nutritional labels, calorie counting, recommended daily allowances, and...