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...
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...
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...
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...
Jul 14, 2020 | Food Labelling, Health, Health Foods, Healthy Eating, Vitamins/minerals |
Back in the 1980’s in order to get natural B vitamins the trendy thing to do was to consume brewer’s yeast or torula yeast.Brewer’s yeast was my choice because it was the byproduct of beer brewing. Torula yeast, on the other hand, was grown on wood liquor, rich in the...
