You’ve probably heard stories from your grandparents and great-grandparents about how they used to eat lamb’s fry, bacon with all the fat, lathered everything in butter and drippings. Where meat and three veg was the stock standard dinner. What if they were right and the way we have been told to eat for the past … Continue reading
I can guess that most of you already have a fair inkling about how important it is to eat! Where I think things go a little astray is when it comes to your food choices. Driven by the mass food production industry, we are being led to believe that food in neat little packets, ready … Continue reading
Research tells us that around 80% of weight loss depends on the diet we consume. This is such an essential piece of information for anyone trying to lose weight as it highlights the importance of looking closely at your current dietary habits and making changes that are significant enough to promote weight loss. However, there … Continue reading
With the colder weather and long dark nights it is very tempting (and I know this myself!!) to spoil yourself with warm sugary comfort foods. Childhood memories of hot apple pie, sultana pudding, and warm chocolate with marshmallows are hard to dismiss when you are snugly inside on a cold and windy winter’s night, so … Continue reading
It’s a scary statistic when more people in a nation are overweight than within their healthy weight range, but unfortunately this is the picture in many developed nations, including Australia, with a reported 61.2% of our population overweight or obese. That’s well over half of us! Even traditionally ‘thin’ nations like China and France are … Continue reading
Part four in the reasons for unsuccessful weight management. Alice knows that feeling down can lead to eating more! Eating and emotions are intimately linked. From birth we relate food with love, security, nurturing, and togetherness. As we grow, eating is celebrated with special social occasions both happy and sad, so it is no wonder … Continue reading
Part three in the reasons for unsuccessful weight management. Alice knows green tea increases her thermogenesis! For those of you who are not familiar with thermogenesis, the term refers to the generation of heat in the body created by the conversion of the foods you eat into energy (metabolism). We all know someone who can … Continue reading
Part two in the reasons for unsuccessful weight management. Poor Alice she looks very stressed !! I think we have probably all had those days when we feel lousy and head straight for the comfort of our favourite foods. The unfortunate thing is these comfort foods are doing you and your stress levels absolutely no … Continue reading
Part one in the reasons for unsuccessful weight management. Even Alice is shocked at this one! The thyroid gland is the largest of several glands in your endocrine system. It sits below your voice box wrapped around your trachea. One of the jobs of the thyroid hormone is to convert iodine from your diet into … Continue reading