Weight Loss and Healthy Eating Blog

3 seasonal recipes – it’s apple season!

Posted by Lynda on March 24th, 2014 (Healthy Recipes)

Discover apples’ health boosting properties, and try these 3 tasty salad recipes that make the most of apple season. Apples were a symbol of love in Greek mythology, a fact that seems less strange when you learn that apples, like peaches, nectarines and apricots are related to the rose. There are 7500 varieties of apples […]

Healthy snacks for children and adults

Posted by Lynda on March 19th, 2014 (Diet, Good Foods, Healthy Recipes)

A list of healthy snacks for children and adults, from Sydney dietitian Lynda Hamilton at Hamilton Dietetics. This list of healthy snacks appeared in our March newsletter as part of an article questioning whether the word ‘healthy’ is becoming a marketing buzz word. You can read that article here – Is healthy becoming a marketing […]

Is healthy becoming a marketing buzz word?

Posted by Lynda on March 19th, 2014 (Diet, Health)

What actually is healthy food, and is the real definition of healthy getting lost in a marketing fog? A story in the USA caught my eye because it raises bigger questions about how food is marketed to us as consumers, whether we are adults or, more worryingly, children – and how the true meaning of […]

Drink herbal teas for heart health

Posted by Lynda on March 17th, 2014 (Good Foods, Health)

Take a leaf out of the Ikarian lifestyle and add a herbal tea to your diet to boost heart health. Tea in various guises has been enjoyed for thousands of years, but research in 2009 in the Blue Zone island of Ikaria in Greece, found that the herbal teas drunk on a daily basis contributed […]

Analysing the Blue Zones

Posted by Lynda on March 13th, 2014 (Diet, Health)

What can the world’s Blue Zones teach us about diet, health and longevity? Blue zones are those anomalies in the known world, unusual pockets around the globe in which the people living there experience unusually long lives, and lower incidents of heart disease, late onset diabetes and osteoporosis. The areas were discovered when two demographic […]

Do you suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)?

Posted by Alexander on March 6th, 2014 (Health)

Hydrogen/methane breath testing for Fructose, Lactose and Sorbitol malabsorption (key triggers for IBS type symptoms) is now available at our clinics. A Hydrogen / Methane Breath Test is a painless and non-invasive test that helps to diagnose gastrointestinal disorders and food intolerances – in particular, sugar malabsorption, such as lactose intolerance and fructose malabsorption, which […]

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