by Cyndi | Oct 14, 2014 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Health Foods, Healthy Eating |
Shopping for food can be a minefield in this day and age, with lots of conflicting information about nutrition on offer. Making poor choices in the supermarket aisle can often lead to poor health. By shopping smart and changing a few small habits, you can navigate the...
by Cyndi | Jun 5, 2014 | Chemicals In Food, Children's Health, Food Labelling, Healthy Eating |
Late Friday night I posted on Facebook about artificially flavoured powders to add to milk and their ingredients. Nestle was once very proud to advertise the fact that they artificially flavoured their strawberry Quik (see photo). They no longer advertise this fact,...
by Sheridan | Mar 26, 2014 | Chemicals In Food, Fitness |
Cyndi was given this convenient sized sports energy gel at the end of her Mooloolaba Triathlon race, that athletes are meant to consume before, during or after exercise. Quite frankly, we wouldn’t want to put it near our skin, let alone ingest it. Here’s...
by Jordan | Nov 12, 2013 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Healthy Eating |
I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to house sit for some friends recently. And yes I’ll admit it, the first thing I did was rummage and poke around in their pantry, fridge and freezer to see what ‘normal’ people are currently eating. I was...
by Changing Habits | Oct 9, 2013 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Healthy Eating, The Nutrition Academy |
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,...
by Changing Habits | Sep 4, 2013 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Healthy Eating |
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...
