Homemade food created with love and attention is very nourishing for the body and soul. Even cakes and cookies! I love making cookies or cakes for special occasions, usually 2-3 times per year. Every time I make them I aim to create a different theme and use different ingredients for decorating, which need to be [...]
Nutrition and oral health are closely linked throughout your lifetime. The mouth is the mirror of your body, say holistic dentists, and they are right - you can’t be healthy until your mouth is healthy! The mouth is also the gateway to the respiratory and digestive systems, so if you think breathing, sleeping and eating is [...]
As a dedicated GAPS practitioner I’m constantly searching for and experimenting with easy to make but nutritious GAPS recipes to suggest to my clients, usually busy mums. I find that making GAPS desserts could often be the trickiest part of meal preparation for many of them but it needn’t be this way at all! In this post [...]
Sweet, juicy, delicious and shiny bright red - strawberries are one of the most mouth-watering and loved fruits of all time. Not surprisingly we are now discovering why they are so good for us as the many benefits of eating strawberries on a regular basis are being researched extensively. The most active component of strawberries [...]
Sleep, along with nutrition and exercise, is one of the three pillars of being healthy and enjoying your life. I’ve been asked a lot lately for simple and easy food-based sleep solutions using foods that can be found in most kitchens. Well, I have two sleep tips for you today and both of them have [...]
EAT MORE FIBRE DAILY – IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Digestive complaints and discomfort are so common nowadays indicating that we are not eating enough gut-friendly foods, are stressed out and sleep-deprived, and generally 'too busy' to look after ourselves properly. Majority of my clients know that dietary fibre is important for their health but [...]
Are you tempted to buy the cheap supermarket milk? Think again and be better informed to make healthier choices for you and your children! Things you need to know before you buy milk Choose full-fat organic milk - commercially available milk that has been pasteurised, homogenised, had fat removed, comes from cows treated with antibiotics [...]
Chia seed’s (Salvia hispanica) popularity is growing as the many health benefits of chia seeds become more known. Doing research for this article helped me to expand my understanding of how good chia seeds really are for us, and subsequently I now ‘prescribe’ chia seeds to most of my clients! So if you're not familiar [...]
In this post I discuss coffee's health benefits (according to latest research), as well as it's drawbacks and risks, plus my take on drinking coffee with key health considerations. I wrote it to help you ponder coffee's pros and cons and make a decision for yourself to have it or not. I have also included [...]
There are a number of effective sleep promoting nutrients that support and enhance sleep and relaxation. Calming minerals - magnesium and calcium are my top sleep promoting nutrients. They are effective, relatively safe, and readily available for purchase over the counter from chemists, health food shops or online. Quality of theses minerals, when supplemented, is [...]
