What is the Glycemic Index (GI)? All carbohydrate foods behave differently in our bodies and the Glycemic Index (GI) is a way to differentiate the ranking of foods according to their effect on our blood sugar levels. High GI foods produce high levels of blood sugar...
My long time mentor Rachel Arthur has created this amazing video which helps us understand the role NUTRITION has on our MOOD! This is an absolute must watch for everyone, weather that be for yourself, or to understand what others possibly close to you may be going...
Check out this interesting article for those of you interested in understanding more about how strongly nutrition influences health outcomes, and importantly how supplementation fits into the equation! Enjoy 🙂 Calcium, fish oil, and multivitamins enhance the health...
Hangover Cure? Hangover Effects Improved With Herbs & Vitamins Are you looking for a "hangover cure"? This small study shows, that herbs and vitamins can support our system and therefore reduce hangover symptoms. Not that we are encouraging alcoholic binges!...
The power in understanding our inherited genetics and their impact upon our health is an extremely attractive concept and is now within our reach like never before! Our genes, inherited from our parents, regulate how we look, how our body functions and how we grow and...
Food glorious food, what to eat? For the last few weeks we have been going through more specialized diets that we might use to make therapeutic changes to get and stay healthy. We also talked about finding out how much carbohydrates in your diet makes you feel and run...
What should I eat? This is the most controversial question ever asked! Traditional cultures knew what to eat and we used to know what to eat - we would eat what our parents ate, what their parents ate…..so on and on. This way of eating was based on years of...
Vitamin D Toxicity - Too Much of a Good Thing? Vitamin D is critical to our health, in fact, our immune system depends on it! Making sure we have enough vitamin D is a MUST, but what happens when we have too much? As supplementing with vitamin D becomes more and more...
COQ10 Is A Must With Cholesterol Lowering Drugs! Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a natural antioxidant made in your body: it’s found in almost every cell, and it concentrates in the heart, liver and kidneys. Many medical studies demonstrate CoQ10 benefits when taken as...
Fresh Local Whole Organic Seasonal Food Whilst we aren't always going to get it right with our food it's nice to know what to strive for, what's the ideal! Here are some valuable things to consider about your food: Quality - Wherever possible food needs...
The Elimination Diet – Uncover Your Food Reactions! The Elimination Diet is a way of seeing the true effect the food you eat has on your body! Not only does the Elimination diet allow you to see what foods effect you, but it shows you HOW they make you feel. Why...
Health Food to Superfood Here is a little brief on why some foods are beyond a health food, making them superfoods! Acai Has a high ORAC score, hence has a high antioxidant capacity and therefore slows down the oxidative processes, commonly associated with age-related...
Australian Healthy Eating - Seasonal Produce Eating with the seasons, is an aspect of Australian Healthy Eating nearly forgotten! We can access tomatoes and cucumbers all year rounds, even though these foods, only grow naturally, in summer. Taking the lead and...
Whole Foods We hear the word "whole foods" a lot, but do you actually know what this means? Whole foods, are foods which have not been altered from the state they have been found in nature. They haven't been refined or processed. They are a healthy food, because they...
Homocysteine - elevated levels, a heart health risk! Most of us know or have heard about cholesterol levels and their relationship to our cardiovascular system, but few of us have any idea about the importance of homocysteine levels. What is homocysteine? Homocysteine...