By Judy Davie **”I desperately need to lose weight. I was put on high blood pressure tablets five months ago and I have put on 10kgs. My height is 168cm and I weigh 80kgs. I am a very plain eater and do not like anything spicy. Please help!” — Jane** While high blood pressure may […]

About six months out from our wedding I started to think more carefully about the incidental food I ate every day. Weight loss was not really my primary goal (I was 65kg), but I was hoping (with regular gentle exercise) to get a bit fitter and more toned for the big day. By cutting out […]

By Annette Campbell So, you’re way too busy to get to the gym? There’s the long list of household chores that always need doing, as well as the kids who need to be delivered to and from school and sport and friends… The list goes on and hardly leaves time for any recreational exercise. But […]

One of the complaints I often hear from people trying to lose weight is that while there’s diversity in a diet, with interesting and different meals each day, it’s just too hard to organise. When we examine the majority of people’s eating habits, it’s typical to eat the same or similar meals many days a […]

By Judy Davie “Can you please provide me some information on how diet can affect children suffering concentration and learning problems and with ADD? What foods should be avoided and what foods added to assist?” Research has shown that a diet free of processed foods with additives can have a significant effect on children with […]

By Annette Campbell Around the world, thousands of different martial arts are practised every day. And while they all have different origins, techniques, benefits and theories, there is one thing they all have in common … timelessness. “Martial arts are the best form of exercise and fitness,” says Master Phil Monaghan, a black belt multi-discipline […]

By Judy Davie **”I recently detoxed then changed my diet to minimise animal and plant fats/oils, dairy, sugars, processed foods and wheat. However, my cholesterol is higher than ever. The bad cholesterol is up to 4.5 and the good cholesterol is down to 1.9. My doctor said to cut meat to only 480g of red […]

I have quite a bit of weight to lose and I have just started. I want to be slim by my big 30 next year. I have realised that I am using too many calories on milk. As I like about a cup on my breakfast plus two or three cups of coffee or tea […]

Do you regularly get the night-time nibbles or the midnight munchies? A little evening snacking is normal and can fit into a healthy, balanced diet, but if you overdo it or regularly get up in the night to eat, you may in fact be suffering from night eating syndrome. What is it? Night Eating Syndrome […]

Even though mushrooms are generally regarded as a vegetable, they actually contain unique nutrients not found in vegetables and are technically a fungi. With such a huge range now available to suit different dishes and cuisines, it really is time to bring them out of the dark and say “caps off to mushrooms!” Nutrient know-how […]