Eating healthy & often
All the latest studies are proving what we’ve known all along…eating smaller meals, more often will help you lose weight and be healthier by keeping your metabolism working faster. That burns calories. It’s why we’ve carefully chosen the world’s best all-natural Super Foods and packed them into our delicious, nutrient dense, high fibre Super Food Bars that are literally bursting with sustained energy, antioxidants and essential vitamins and minerals.
From a health perspective, until very recently, butter was deemed as “the bad fat” and margarine as “the good fat.” The National Heart Foundation awarded some margarines with their approved “Health Tick” but in October 2016 the Heart Foundation removed...
Here we are post Dry July. Congratulations to those who participated in abstaining from drinking alcohol for a month. You raised funds for a worthy cause and metaphorically, you took your liver on a month’s holiday to Fiji. That’s the...
4 Healing Food’s To Get You Through Winter Sometimes finding the nutrients you need to stay healthy, can be found right under your nose. That’s right, challenge yourself this winter to an all-natural vitamin boost with the foods you eat,...
The benefits of not consuming alcohol for a month are many and well documented, but after your 21 days of abstinence, what should you do next? Terry Herbert has some practical suggestions and reasons why…
Calories and Kilojoules -Why You Need Them It can get really confusing when people say calories, but in New Zealand and Australia, we say kilojoules. Quite simply, these are measurements of food energy levels. They are both one and the...
The warm weather is finally with us and as thoughts turn to Christmas, holidays and relaxing with friends and family there is no better way of sharing those times than enjoying the simple pleasure of food! Here are a couple...
Are Supplements Necessary?Sports nutrition supplements should never take the place of good-quality foods that provide a range of nutrients. Wholefoods and their nutrients work synergistically within the body to provide a number of benefits that out-weigh those of supplements. E.g....
Healthy fats have gained a huge following over recent years and for good reason! Fats should be an integral part of our diet as they serve a range of functions within the body such as: Producing hormones Effective absorption of...
Traditionally many generations have grown up eating a high-carbohydrate breakfast of jam or marmalade on toast followed by a salad sandwich for lunch and only thinking about including a good quality source of protein at dinner time such as lamb,...
The window of opportunity is the time immediately following exercise when your body is primed to digest and utilise key nutrients to support an efficient recovery. Ensuring an optimal recovery involves refuelling, repairing and rehydrating, all of which needs to...
Why Probiotics are so important for your health. Our bodies are full of bacteria both good and bad. Some scientists have put the ratio of microbial cells outnumbering human cells by 10:1. We prefer to err on the side of...
Athletes have much higher energy and nutrient requirements because they are not only feeding their bodies to perform in everyday life, but they are also fuelling their bodies to perform in their chosen sporting arena. To perform optimally, athletes need...
Eating Paleo is all about eating the way our body was designed to eat. The human has been evolving for nigh on two million years. Before we became agrarian or cultivated the land (which afterall was only a blink in...
Why pure, Gluten Free ingredients from 100% naturally sourced productsare so important. More than 55 diseases have been linked to gluten, the protein found in wheat, rye, and barley. It's estimated that 99% of the people who have either gluten...
