Are you a sugar addict? It’s hard not to be when sugar is added to so many of our food and drinks; often, we don’t even know it. It’s already naturally occurring within most of our daily fruit intake, so why add it? Because it makes everything taste better. And it’s addictive as it causes a dopamine release to the brain, so we want more and more. And so we buy more and more sugar-laden products keeping big business in…
Does your pantry look like this? Mine doesn’t yet, but it’s what I’ve been striving for. Years ago, during a gym assessment, my personal trainer made one statement which stuck in my mind, “If you want to come to the gym to get fit, you need to start from the inside out. At home, look in your pantry and dump anything that is in a packet that has ingredients you don’t recognise or can’t pronounce”. This has stuck with me,…
When I had a baby recently, I became even more conscious about what products I would use on my precious little one to get her started in life in the healthiest possibly way. There is a plethora of baby products on the market, especially for nappy creams; many of them chemically based – containing Benzyl Benzoate, Benzyl Alcohol, Propylene Glycol, Linalyl Acetate to name a few. The MSDS’ (material safety data sheets) for these ingredients state to varying degrees that…
Doctor doctor give me the news…… Yep, we all go to them for much needed answers and advice and doctors absolutely have their place in our modern world. However, I like to think that before we head to the waiting rooms of our doctor’s clinic, we might stop to try and work things out ourselves first. After all, we do understand our bodies best, because they are ours. But more often than not, we are not paying attention to the…
It’s time to go tropical! Coconut Oil – Boy, is it good for nearly everything! And it’s even better when you find it at Aldi (Australia) for $4.99 – and it tastes incredible. In our family, we use coconut oil in our cooking, smoothies, as a moisturiser, on scars, in our baby’s bath water, oil pulling** and we eat a teaspoon every night (including bubs – and she loves it!). Coconut oil contains short-term medium-chain saturated fatty acids (MCFAs), which…
