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7 ways to be healthy this Christmas and all Summer long! Christmas, New Year and summer-time eating can be difficult when you are trying to eat healthy or for achieving weight loss goals.  It’s time to make some decisions to guide your eating over the Summer. 1 Yes, you do have options Do you want

What is intuitive eating Let’s explore intuitive eating… Do you have days when you eat more than you normally would? Or other days when you just aren’t hungry and eat less? How do you feel when you eat more or less? Many women say they feel “good” when they eat less and “bad” when they

Vegetables – how much is enough? Do you know how many vegetables is enough in a healthy diet?  Why do we bother anyway? Vegies are a wonderful source of fibre, vitamins (vitamin C, beta carotene, folate), minerals (iron, zinc and magnesium) and phyto-nutrients which help our bodies to work properly and they taste great.  They are

Six tips to keep your New Year resolutions A new year tends to bring on all sorts of determination from within us – it’s time to wipe the slate clean and to revise our health and habits.  Within a short time our willpower may wane and we go back to old habits feeling like we’ve

Ways to beat fatigue at work Have you ever sat and worked at your desk all day then wondered why you felt so fatigued by the end of the day? Sitting all day is something you mightn’t mean to do but the pressures of our day to day activities – work, study, personal admin as well

Cool foods for hot weather In this hot, hot weather, who wants to cook hot meals every evening?  It’s a great time of the year to prepare light, cold foods which can make it an easy time to eat healthy or even lose weight. If your aim is to lose weight, remember you still need

Water – how much should I drink? How much water should I drink and what is the best drink are common questions I am asked; usually along with “I don’t like drinking water”.  It’s especially important as the weather warms up that we drink enough fluids. Water is essential! The human body is 50-80% water,

To diet or not to diet There’s lot of different diets around – which is the best? Do they work?  But before we dig into the nitty-gritty of diets, just what is a diet? Everything we eat and drink makes up our ‘diet’, whether we are following a structured eating plan for any purpose or

I don’t feel like eating breakfast Some people just don’t feel like eating breakfast.  Some regularly feel vaguely nauseas about eating early in the day, others just aren’t hungry.  Contrast that to many who wolf down breaky as if they’ve been starved for the last week!  Let’s look at why some people feel nausea or

10 ways to eat the Mediterranean way This is the first in a series of articles which compares and contrasts the lifestyle and eating patterns of people living in particular regions around the world where studies have found those people live long and healthy lives. In the past nutrition research has focused mostly on the