The concept of clean eating is quite simple. It involves choosing a diet that is free of processed foods and with a long list of additives. A general rule of thumb is that if your grandparents wouldn’t recognise a particular food or ingredients in a food then don’t eat it. What are processed foods? Processed […]

Planning is just as important when it comes to food as it is in any other aspect of life. Without planning things tend to go wrong. A house built without a plan will probably fall down. Without a plan you will probably get stuck in traffic and miss you plane flight. Once at your destination, […]

Over recent years we have all heard about how bad sugar is. In fact some people label sugar poison and recommend avoiding it all together. Others have singled out fructose (a type of sugar) as the main cause of obesity, liver disease and Type 2 Diabetes. All this noise about sugar has caused many avoid […]

It seems a bit strange writing a blog about how to enjoy your favourite food. Surely its something that just happens automatically right? Eating tasty food should be enjoyable, simple. But it’s staggering just how many people don’t. It’s a travesty in fact. Not that it stops people from eating treats mind you, and often […]

I talk a lot about healthy foods a lot but being careful of portion sizes is very important, regardless of what you eat. For most Australians dinner is the biggest meal of the day. After a long day at work there is nothing like sitting down and relaxing to a hearty serving of tasty food. […]

“Wheat belly” is a New York Times number one bestseller with over 2 million copies sold worldwide. The author with impressive credentials I might add, takes aim at wheat and claims that it is indeed wheat and wheat based products that are the real evil in our diets. In fact he even goes as far […]

Most people by now have at least heard of the FODMAPs diet. If you, like many others, suffer from stomach and bowel issues like bloating, cramps and diarrhea then the FODMAPs diet should be of particular interest. The FODMAP diet is rapidly growing in popularity due to its success in treating IBS related symptoms. In […]

For some they appear at the same time everyday, and for others they can grab hold at any hour of the day. The fact is that many people struggle with sugar cravings on a daily basis. The question everyone wants to know is what causes these cursed cravings? And what can be done about it? […]