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,...
Jun 5, 2013 | Body and Mind, Chemicals In Food, Medications/Vitamins, The Nutrition Academy |
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...
Jan 17, 2013 | Healthy Eating, Hormonal Issues, The Nutrition Academy |
In this day and age it’s easy to become a vegetarian; people are more knowledgeable and the soy industry has created numerous products to enable vegetarians to obtain their daily protein. From the humble soy bean we have soy flour, tempeh, tofu, soy milk, soy sauce,...
Nov 13, 2012 | Fats, Healthy Eating, The Nutrition Academy |
Our body is a fat machine, all our cells have fat, our brain is made up of fat, we carry fats in our blood stream to make hormones and vitamin D as well as other important communicators, we use fat for storage for the lean times. We not only use fat for storage but...
Oct 10, 2012 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Medications/Vitamins, The Nutrition Academy |
As you know I am not a fan of breakfast cereals. They are the most profitable food on the supermarket shelf, they have false health claims that would curl your toes and their marketing and advertising is full of extravagant claims. The food is barely a food, it...