Australian Healthy Weight Week is a relatively new initiative put together by the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) to try and promote healthy eating to our nation. This week was healthy weight week, however most of the attention I feel went to Australia day and the festivities that go along side that. So what types [...]
After reading the Coles online blog on what are Australian foods? I started to think to myself, what foods can we be proud to call our own (and are healthy!). The article named such favourites as lamingtons, meat pies and pavlova (not looking too healthy if you ask me!) I’ve set out on a mission to come [...]
The term ‘comfort food’ and the indulgent chocolate often go hand in hand…but why?! I know people often crave the sweet taste and smooth mouth feel, however there must be more to it if so many people throughout the world crave the same foods for the same reason. With this in mind I found this [...]
Without being the wet blanket on the party season, most of us do know that drinking alcohol in large doses on a reasonably regular basis is not exactly the best thing we could be doing to our liver. So what can we do to get our livers back on side? I came across this list [...]
I don’t tend to like to use the word ‘superfood’ given the fact that one food on its own doesn’t cause or solve all of the worlds health problems. However when I stumbled across this new cholesterol lowering cheese by Kraft all I could do was smile. The number of people who have high cholesterol [...]
Is it better to consume some foods alongside others, or is it all just a myth? There certainly are some tales out there that I wouldn’t trust, which have a lack of scientific evidence to back them up, that make suggestions around grouping foods for negative or positive health effects. However when I came across [...]
100 People in 100 Days
