Nutritional Biochemist • Clinical Nutritionist
How does what you and your children eat impact on your children’s thinking and learning skills? Did you even know there was a direct link between what they eat and how their brain works? It’s very interesting to know that there are many studies that suggest that the common Western dietary pattern is a risk […]
We get asked this very question almost every day here at Nutritionista™ HQ. Quite literally the Greek word ‘cacao’ translates into ‘food of the Gods’, and we couldn’t agree more (read more here http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/chocolate/theobromacacao.php). The raw cacao bean has more than 300 nutritional compounds including many vital vitamins, minerals and antioxidants such as: * Magnesium, and other […]
3 simple ingredients was all it took to create these delicious, no bake, morsels. Ingredients: * 350g of dried apricots, * 150g of dessicated/shredded coconut, & * 20g of coconut oil. Method: Place all ingredients into your food processor/thermomix and blend for 1-2mins. Roll out into 24 balls and pop into the fridge until you’re […]
Of all the lifestyle choices we make that affect our wellbeing to some degree – physical or otherwise – few have greater impact than nutrition.
While we’ve posted before the many amazing health benefits of chia we couldn’t help but praise these nutritious little morsels a little more. While these beautiful little seeds aren’t quite the magic seed many report that they are, they come very close. Not only are they regarded a ‘superfood’ (and we highly encourage everyone to have a […]
Diabetes. It’s a pretty scary word, with even scarier statistics. Whats the first thing that pops into your mind when you think about it? Needles, sugar, blood sugar, jelly beans, blindness, uncontrolled weight, early death? It’s all a pretty daunting concept to be faced with. Currently we are faced with the appearance of a global […]
“It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.” Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, The Healing Power of Water.