I don’t know about you, but when I hear the word diet I tend to cringe. I immediately get cynical, and think “Great! what have they come up with this time?!”. I start thinking weight loss, restriction, starvation, hassle, stress, carrot sticks… but when I remind myself of the other meaning of “diet”: The kinds … Continue reading
Ahh, the million dollar nutritionist’s question! “Why is eating healthy so hard?“ There are lots of reasons actually, so I’ll go through a few here: How many times were you forced to eat your vegetables as a kid before you could leave the table? Perhaps a bit of rebellious streak hanging around. Feeling low – … Continue reading
As you may have seen back on the 03 August, Core were sponsors for the What’s with Wheat? documentary for Southern Sydney. So on a cold, wet, winter’s night along with about 70 other people from the Shire and surrounds we were enlightened on what has and is happening to our wheat. I thought it … Continue reading
Ever snapped at someone, or had someone snap at you, and then after having something to eat all is well with the world again? You might feel calmer, happier, and possibly embarrassed at your recent outburst! Well you may have just been hangry – referring to the state of being angry and irritable because you … Continue reading
A key contributor to inflammation in our body is the food that we eat. A diet high in processed foods, refined sugar, grains, vegetable oils, trans fats, chemical additives and the like, will lead you down the path to inflammation and ill-health. Replacing processed foods with whole, ideally organic foods is the more scenic, … Continue reading
Metabolic syndrome is not a disease in itself, but a collection of risk factors that often occur together, increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. A person is diagnosed as having metabolic syndrome when they have any three or more: central (abdominal) obesity – excess fat in and around the stomach (abdomen) raised … Continue reading
Disease Prevention: The World Health Organization defines prevention as ‘approaches and activities aimed at reducing the likelihood that a disease or disorder will affect an individual, interrupting or slowing the progress of the disorder or reducing disability’ (WHO 2004). An important part of disease prevention is health promotion. This describes activities which help individuals and … Continue reading
Move and enjoy: Just be active! It doesn’t always have to be planned or gym workouts. Simply sitting less, and getting more physically active throughout the day wherever possible is also essential to reducing one of the major risk factors for metabolic syndrome, obesity. One strategy for sticking with exercise is to make it enjoyable … Continue reading
Not quite the weather for a green smoothie – how about a green soup instead? This is a low carb, nutrient dense green soup, great for everyone. The “magic” ingredient is watercress! Hippocrates used watercress back in 400BC for his hospital, Culpepper in the 1700s believed it could cleanse the blood, and modern science has … Continue reading
Nutritional genomics, or nutrigenomics, is the study of how foods affect our genes and how individual genetic differences can affect the way we respond to nutrients (and other naturally occurring compounds) in the foods we eat. Nutrigenomics has received much attention recently because of its potential for preventing, mitigating, or treating chronic disease, and certain … Continue reading