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Is Spicy Food Healthy?
What springs to mind when you think chilli peppers? …. the band, your local Indian restaurant, hot sauce, or maybe that burning sensation when you’ve underestimated the ‘hot’ curry! Whether you're chilli obsessed, dabble in a ‘mild’ dish, or you avoid chilli at all costs, you probably didn’t realise that the most common form...
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Food For Gut Health - Our Top 5 Picks!
Gut health, the hottest nutrition topic of the 21st Century, but what does it mean and how do you obtain a healthy gut? Let’s get started with the basics. The gut is the lining of...
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Can Italian Food be Healthy?
What comes to mind when you think of Italian food? Pasta or pizza? Delicious? Absolutely. Healthy? Well that’s what we’re here to talk about. Often the whole cuisine gets lumped...
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Staying Healthy at Home
From lockdown to 7 days isolation, you might find yourself, at home...yet again, but you are not alone, like always we're all in this together. We want to help you...
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Common Nutritional Myths Busted!
If you spend any time online reading about health and nutrition, you’re probably aware of the various health claims, pseudoscience, misinformation, and myths circulating on our screens every day. It can be hard to know exactly what to trust, what has supporting evidence, what's misleading, or just plainly untrue! Well, our team of qualified nutritionists is here to help investigate some of the most common...
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Nutritional Words Debunked!
Are you ever stumped halfway through a diet conversation or nutrition article thinking “what in the world are they talking about?” With complicated scientific -looking words, that may as well be another language, it’s little wonder. Well, fear not, this dictionary, curated by our team of nutritionists, is perfect for when you’re feeling...
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Reduce Your Salt Intake With These Easy Swaps!
What comes to mind when you think of salt? Is it that salty feeling on your lips after you’ve been in the ocean, your greasy fingers after fish and chips...
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Intermittent Fasting - What Do You Need To Know?
Fasting is nothing new, our paleolithic ancestors would have practiced it (unknowingly) whilst hunting and gathering food, Hippocrates advised fasting for healing and health in 5th century B.C and it’s...
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Mindful eating - create a positive relationship with food.
What is mindful eating? Mindful eating involves focusing on the present moment, whilst acknowledging and accepting, your feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations. - which pretty much means we need to...
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Calories vs Nutrition, who wins?
Whether you’ve noticed or not, calories or kilojoules (if we are being technically correct) are a topic we - in the past - have veered away from. And not because...
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The Ultimate Guide to Low FODMAP
Believe it or not, there are 100,000 times more microbes in your gut than there are people on Earth. Oh my gut! Yes, it’s hard to believe how so much...
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Healthy Snacking by Karen Inge
According to research, around a third of Australians regularly snack and a similar number say they sometimes replace a main meal with a snack. But recent research found 30%...
Meet Our Team of Qualified Nutritionists!
When we say nutrition’s in our DNA we mean it, so we’d love to introduce you to our team of qualified nutritionists. These are the faces behind our blogs and nutrition content, the minds that help create your meals, and a window into the talented team we have at Dineamic.
Karen Inge
Dineamic Founder & Accredited Practising Dietitian
The heart and soul of the Dineamic Nutrition Team, Karen is not only an inspiration to our team but is revered as an established leader in her field, with a career filled with many milestones and big wins. Karen is also no stranger to the footy community, being the first dietitian in the game, working for Collingwood and Hawthorn, which is what lead her to cofounding Dineamic. Outside of Dineamic, Karen is a director of St Vincent’s institute of Medical Research (SVI), Chair of the SVI Foundation, and a Fareshare Ambassador. Find Karen on 3AW every Tuesday to uncover nutrition topics or follow her via kareninge.com
Sophie Kane
Dineamic Foodstore Manager & Nutritionist
You can find Sophie at our stores in South Yarra and Prahran, making seriously good coffee and providing our customers with nutrition advice and meal recommendations. She is also a member of the Nutrition Society of Australia and is currently undertaking her Masters of Dietetics. Sophie is passionate about using a non-diet approach in helping people build healthy and balanced relationships with food and embrace mindful and intuitive eating habits. Outside of work, you can find Sophie spending time in nature, hiking and playing tennis. She loves food, cooking and it’s culture. You can find her recipes and health tips on Instagram @_allbeingwell_
Bianca Petrovski
Account Coordinator & Nutritionist
Bianca who looks after our wholesale customers and works hard to ensure as many Australians have access to the best readymade meals. Passionate about women's health and child nutrition, Bianca practices and believes in nonrestrictive eating, taking the balanced approach to life. A sporty spice who won a Victorian gold medal in taekwondo and kicked goals on the soccer field, Bianca now loves reformer Pilates, eating Thai food, and posting nutrition tips and wellness inspiration to her @thenourishedbunch account.