by Cyndi | Jan 12, 2021 | Chemicals In Food, Education, Food Labelling, Gut Health, Health, Health Foods, Healthy Eating, The Nutrition Academy, Vitamins/minerals |
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...
by Cyndi | Dec 8, 2020 | Auto-Immune Diseases, Chemicals In Food, Education, Health, Health Foods, Healthy Eating, Sleep |
As I do my final article for 2020, I’m musing on what would be the best thing to talk about after what many would call a tumultuous and very different year. It’s been a year like no other, a year of fear, lockdowns, restrictions, bad habits and losses, but it’s also...
by Cyndi | Nov 10, 2020 | Allergies/Food Sensitivities, Auto-Immune Diseases, Changing Habits Real Foods, Chemicals In Food, Gut Health, Health, Health Foods, Healthy Eating |
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...
by Cyndi | Oct 13, 2020 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Health, Health Foods, Healthy Eating, Uncategorized |
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...
by Cyndi | Sep 8, 2020 | Changing Habits Real Foods, Chemicals In Food, Health Foods |
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...