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Truffles
This recipe is easy and simple for a quick sweet craving without the nasties. No refined sugars and also, dairy and gluten-free! You can add any superfoods to make it extra nutritious such as maca powder or cacao powder. INGREDIENTS 250g Raw Cashews 200g Coconut...
PH Balance Can Affect Mood
Do you know your daily acid load? All foods have an acidic or alkalising effect on the body, it is important to determine whether your diet is more acidic or alkaline overall. High dietary acid load There is new evidence showing a direct correlation between...
Weight Loss & Cardiovascular Disease
Weight Loss & Cardiovascular Disease Despite all our knowledge on weight loss and weight management, and unprecedented pharmacological advances in this area, the stats still show that heart attack (otherwise known as myocardial infarction) and heart disease or...
Quick Rice Dish
Quick Rice Dish This quick rice dish can be a main, served with steamed veg and salad or makes a great snack with one of the healthy tahini dips. Quick Rice Ingredients 1 cup of brown rice or wild rice or red rice 1 large brown or red onion 1 tablespoon of coconut...
Hangover Effects Improved With Herbs & Vitamins
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!...
Bean Dip
This dip is easy and a great protein rich snack for you and even for your kids. You can chop up your favourite veggie sticks for dipping or add it on to your salad! Ingredients Tahini ¼ to ½ cup, Lemon juice ½ cup, Garlic 1 or 2 cloves, Water ¼ cup Parsley or...
Treating & Understanding Autoimmunity
Treating & Understanding Autoimmunity AUTOIMMUNITY - Stop the body's attack on itself! Autoimmunity or autoimmune conditions, relate to diseases (of which there are more than 80), where the immune system is attacking the body's own healthy tissues and cells. This...
How to Detox – 3 Simple Steps to Detoxification
Are You Ready for a Detox? Find out how to detox properly. 3 Simple Steps to Detoxification It is important to detoxify the body a few times a year depending on your condition to reset the body and feel your best. But we also want to ensure your general detox...
Seed Muesli
Seed Muesli This healthy seed muesli recipe is perfect if you are gluten-free and still want to enjoy muesli in the morning. Crunchy and full of nutrients, you can make this seed muesli the night before to soak it in the fridge for the following morning when you are...
Mediterranean Diet Improves Inflammatory Bowel Diseases!
Mediterranean Diet on Inflammatory Bowel Disease This study showed for those with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease that a Mediterranean Diet followed for 6 months significantly reduced malnutrition-related parameters and...
Dhal with Crispy Sweet Potato and Coconut Chutney
Dhal with crispy sweet potato and coconut chutney Looking for a healthy, hearty Indian dish for dinner? This is a great winter warmer that everyone will love. SERVES 4 Ingredients FOR THE SWEET POTATOES 2 sweet potatoes, skins on, washed and roughly chopped into 1.5cm...
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) & Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Understanding Irritable Bowel Disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease! Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is not to be confused with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Symptoms for both are chronic but IBD, as the name alludes to is an inflammatory condition with ...
One Bowl Super Seed Biscuits
These biscuits are loaded with nourishment from the seeds, oats, cinnamon and also full of fibre, good quality fats, magnesium, zinc and more. Try this recipe for a perfect snack or a tasty dessert with a nice hot cacao or chai latte! Makes 14 biscuits Ingredients 1...
Rethinking Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent Fasting - Good or Bad? Like intermittent fasting anyone? I do! This study has shown we may need to consider it further. Eating between 12 pm and 8 pm was compared to eating 3 meals per day and there was a drop in muscle mass in the fasting group!!...
Omelette
Omelette Perfect dish to load up on your veggies first thing in the morning! Additional healthy fats and protein will keep you satisfied until lunch, you can mix up the veggies depending on what you have in the fridge. Ingredients 4 eggs ½ small zucchini grated 6...
Is It Your Mood or Just An Iron Issue?
Iron deficiency Nearly everyone knows that iron deficiency causes tiredness and fatigue but it's one of the best kept secrets that iron deficiency causes much more than a tired body! When we are fatigued we are not motivated for a start! But iron deficiency also...
Teresa Palmer
Maria is a wealth of knowledge and a guru in her field, from providing us with essential information when developing our Lovewell formulas, to contributing to our book (Zen Mamas - Finding your path through pregnancy, birth and beyond), Maria is extremely...
Sarah Wright Olsen
Maria's supernutrient ebook is broken down so beautifully, it blew me away. It is a valuable resource and enabled me to feel equipped with practical information to ensure my body, and baby, are both getting all the nutrients they need to thrive. A must purchase -...
Pecan Torte with Chocolate Ganache
This delicious dessert is gluten, grain, and refined sugar (sweetened with dates and honey) free and no baking needed! Ingredients for crust 2 cups pecans 1 cup pitted dates 1 cup shredded coconut ¼ cup cacao nibs ¼ cup coconut oil/butter ¼ cup cacao powder ½ tsp sea...
Liver Detox, How It Works!
Have you ever wondered how the body detoxifies? One of the primary function of the liver is to detoxify the body of waste products within its Phase I and Phase II detoxification pathways. Phase I and II detoxification Phase I detoxification takes waste products and...
Understanding Gut Health
Gut Health Gut Health is key to our overall wellbeing! It seems as though everyone is talking about it, self-prescribing supplements, using fermented foods, often not finding any relief from their symptoms. From the beginning to the end of digestion the gut has it all...
Histamine Intolerance
There are a lot of questions on histamine. I come across clients with histamine intolerance a lot and it can be mistaken for allergy as the symptoms of excess histamine can be similar to that of allergy. It's not always easy to establish! So what is histamine? ...
Teresa Cutter’s Healthy Christmas Cake
There are lots of Christmas traditions around eating and drinking but we thought we would share one that was shared with us by our client Annie Hughes. How about a traditional Christmas Cake that tastes delicious? This beautiful Christmas cake recipe from Teresa...
Mung Bean Soup
Mung Bean Soup Winter or summer, Mung Bean Soup is a yummy health option for lunch or dinner. This healthy Mung Bean Soup recipe serves 2 with leftovers. Ingredients 1 cup mung beans (soaked overnight) 3 tbsp ghee 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 tsp minced fresh ginger 2½...