Sep 13, 2012 | Healthy Eating, Medications/Vitamins, The Nutrition Academy |
As a young nutrition student I was taught that even though the vitamin or mineral is made in a laboratory, there is no difference between the vitamins and minerals found in food and the synthetic version made in a chemical laboratory. This statement never ever sat...
Aug 8, 2012 | Medications/Vitamins, The Nutrition Academy |
Supplement sales in Australia are a multi-million dollar industry, growing at a fast rate. And that’s a good thing – right? Well let’s really look into this and see if it is good for the health of the nation. 95% of the supplements on the shelves are...
Aug 7, 2012 | Chemicals In Food, Healthy Eating, The Nutrition Academy |
It was first believed that milk drinking began in dairy farming communities in northern Europe. Through a process of natural selection to compensate for vitamin D deficiencies due to a lack of daylight, communities in northern Europe were believed to have undergone a...
May 9, 2012 | Healthy Eating, Medications/Vitamins, The Nutrition Academy |
I have always been about real foods. Even supplements need to be made from real food, so fish oil came under the category as a supplement that comes from a food source. As always I assumed ethics in the industry, but as the industry has grown the ethics for this...
Sep 14, 2011 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, The Nutrition Academy |
I am not a fan of breakfast cereals, never have been. They are the most profitable food on the supermarket shelf, they have outlandish false health claims and their marketing and advertising is full of extravagant claims. The food is barely a food,...