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,...
Sep 17, 2013 | Fats, Healthy Eating |
Fat was never a dirty word, before the 1960’s, lard or dripping on bread was a favourite, bacon and eggs were a traditional breakfast and the fat on the meat was a treat. Yet today many people have a fat phobia, making sure that it is not in the diet, hunting through...
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...
Jul 23, 2013 | Body and Mind, Healthy Eating, Medications/Vitamins |
Back in the 1980’s when I was a young nutrition consultant the super nutrient of the time was vitamin C. It seemed everyone was taking it to improve their immune system or to ward off colds and flus. People would even mega dose to the point of...
Jul 10, 2013 | Chemicals In Food, Healthy Eating |
Vanilla is one of those items which, although you don’t really think about being an essential everyday item, lends itself to a large variety of uses. I didn’t exactly seek out the Vanilla pod for its nutritional qualities in the beginning, I just wanted it for myself...
