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Why Karen Inge Gives Extra Virgin Olive Oil 5 Stars

Why Karen Inge Gives Extra Virgin Olive Oil 5 Stars

Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO), known as liquid gold, is recognised as one of the healthiest and most popular edible oils. It has a unique chemica...
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How Food Affects Your Mood

How Food Affects Your Mood

Gut Health, Mental Health and Nutrition. - A love triangle That gut feeling, you know the one where your tummy’s in a twist? Your gut says someth...
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The Truth About Processed Food.

The Truth About Processed Food.

How many times have you heard the advice “eat less processed food”? Us humans have a long record of demonizing foods, from rejecting innocent car...
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Yoghurt safe during pregnancy

Yoghurt safe during pregnancy

  We've received quite few questions on whether yogurt is safe during pregnancy. So this week we're looking specifically at that issue. Dairy food...
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Nutrition Tips for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Nutrition Tips for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

*See a physician if you believe you are having symptoms related to Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Please note  these recommendations are a guide only a...
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Brownies For The Girlies

Brownies For The Girlies

PEANUT BUTTER BROWNIES W RASPBERRY COCONUT ICING Ingredients Peanut Butter Brownies½ cup almond flour¼ cup cacao powder¼ cup brown sugar½ tsp bak...
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What is the healthiest alcoholic beverage?

What is the healthiest alcoholic beverage?

Drinking alcohol is part of many lifestyles worldwide and has a firm position in Aussie culture. Incorporated and loved due to the social aspect l...
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Do I need to take a men's multivitamin?

Do I need to take a men's multivitamin?

    As it's men's health week, this one's decidated to the boys.  Okay, so I’m sure we’re all guilty of thinking we’re low on nutrients, then popp...
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Breaking down men's mental health.

Breaking down men's mental health.

Let's break down some barriers.  Mental health remains one of the most significant issues affecting health in our society today, with 1 in 7 Aust...
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Finding Balance in Health

Finding Balance in Health

Balance is key, but what does that really mean? Balance in health takes into account your physical, mental, social and environmental health factor...
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Eating For A Healthy Heart.

Eating For A Healthy Heart.

We’re raising awareness about the importance of heart health and what you can do at home to maintain it! Let’s get the nitty gritty out of the way...
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5 Ways to Up Your Game at Brekky

5 Ways to Up Your Game at Brekky

They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but why? For some, breakfast may even be the favourite meal of the day! This week w...
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The Good Fat Guide

The Good Fat Guide

We’ve all heard of the mantra eat more ‘good fats’ and less ‘bad fats’ but what classifies a fat as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, how do we tell them apart and...
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The Mediterranean Diet - Why it's the gold standard!

The Mediterranean Diet - Why it's the gold standard!

The Mediterranean Diet is considered the healthiest of all diets and is inspired by the traditional habits of people who lived in the Mediterranea...
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How Intuitive Eating can improve your relationship with food

How Intuitive Eating can improve your relationship with food

Have you heard of Intuitive Eating?  Intuitive Eating has been growing in popularity, helping people build more positive and healthy relationships...
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Reduce Your Salt Intake With These Easy Swaps!

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 an...
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Mindful eating - create a positive relationship with food.

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 bo...
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The Ultimate Guide to Low FODMAP

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 m...
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Healthy Snacking by Karen Inge

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. B...
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Is Coffee Good for You?

Is Coffee Good for You?

Today is international coffee day! Like many of you, I enjoy starting my mornings with a comforting cup of coffee- strong oat latte, please! It’s ...
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Diet And Exercise: What To Eat To Fuel Your Workouts!

Diet And Exercise: What To Eat To Fuel Your Workouts!

So it’s time to hit the gym - perhaps for the first time in a long time - and you’re looking to get the most out of your workout? Well, great trai...
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Our guide to the most nutritious (and delicious) summer fruits

Our guide to the most nutritious (and delicious) summer fruits

Nothing screams an Aussie summer more than a slice of watermelon at the beach, or some fresh, plump, juicy berries atop a pavlova. Summer is a fan...
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How to get more plant-based protein on a plant-based or vegetarian diet

How to get more plant-based protein on a plant-based or vegetarian diet

So you’re wondering how to get more protein when following a plant-based or vegetarian diet? Lucky for you, we’ve got some great go-tos (and delic...
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Our guide to choosing the best plant-based milk for your health, the environment and your wallet

Our guide to choosing the best plant-based milk for your health, the environment and your wallet

So you’re looking for the best dairy alternative to pour onto your cereal, or add into your protein shake? Well, you’ve come to the right place! W...
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10 quick tips to improve your mental health:

10 quick tips to improve your mental health:

                                                 Sleep: Are you getting enough sleep?  7-9 hours is recommended from ages 18+. Sleep is so importa...
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Intuitive eating. What is it and how do you do it?

Intuitive eating. What is it and how do you do it?

So dieting hasn’t worked out and it’s time to try something new. Don’t be disheartened. In our view, it’s better to have loved and lost than never...
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Alex Pendlebury on nutrition, balance & life!

Alex Pendlebury on nutrition, balance & life!

This year has been a wild ride. So we think it's a good time to take a moment, pause, reflect, and check in with yourself and how you’ve been mana...
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Are snacks healthy? The up, and down, side

Are snacks healthy? The up, and down, side

  According to research, around a third of Australians regularly snack and a similar number say they sometimes replace a main meal with a snack. B...
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3 Reasons to Eat More Soup

3 Reasons to Eat More Soup

It is warming, delicious and a no-brainer for a great go-to winter meal, but what is it that makes soup just so damn good? There is a raft of answ...
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Your (Updated) Go-To Nutrition Dictionary

Your (Updated) Go-To Nutrition Dictionary

This week, we’ve added some new nutrition terms to our ever-growing nutrition dictionary along with links to more resources that help you understa...
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Food Trends of 2018: What We Loved & What We’d Rather Leave Behind

Food Trends of 2018: What We Loved & What We’d Rather Leave Behind

Food trends come and go, some we’d love to see stick around and others we’d rather leave behind in 2018 (*cough* carnivore diet). From gut friendly...
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Dangers of Skipping Meals: 4 Effects on Your Body

Dangers of Skipping Meals: 4 Effects on Your Body

  Slept in? Worked through your lunch break (again) and can’t remember the last meal you had? Yep, same here. Skipping meals can be easy given th...
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Mental Health Month

Mental Health Month

It’s time for some serious talk. 1 in 5 of us would have suffered from a mental health disorder in the past year and over our lifetime that ‘1 in ...
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The Not So Secret to Healthy Ageing

The Not So Secret to Healthy Ageing

We all know that food is an important part of being healthy at every stage of your life, but when it comes to our later years, what goes in plays ...
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Spotlight on: Sweet Potato

Spotlight on: Sweet Potato

Twenty years ago, the humble sweet potato might have occasionally made its way to your Sunday roast if you were lucky. Nowadays it’s considered on...
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The Rise of the Flexitarian

The Rise of the Flexitarian

Rising in popularity in the last couple of years, the flexitarian diet represents a purposeful movement away from a meat-based diet. While some do...
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How to Stay Fit & Healthy Through Winter

How to Stay Fit & Healthy Through Winter

Winter is just days away and in most places around Oz we’ve already started to feel the cold weather creeping in. It can be one of the most diffic...
Balance Health Winter
Food You Don’t Need to Prep, Cook, or Feel Guilty About

Food You Don’t Need to Prep, Cook, or Feel Guilty About

Have you ever looked in the fridge and realised you’ve got nothing to eat? There’s just not enough time to shop, prepare, cook and clean up. Not to...
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Food Nudging

Food Nudging

We all know what happens when there’s a bar of chocolate sitting on your desk, conveniently placed, so it’s just in the corner of your eye. It talk...
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Food Processing

Food Processing

Usually when someone says “food processing”, our brains immediately switch to ‘processed foods’, conjuring up images of all the packaged food linin...
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Sticking To Your New Year's Resolutions

Sticking To Your New Year's Resolutions

It’s that time of year again. With the memories of the festive season gradually fading, we set our sights on the year ahead.  And for a lot of us, ...
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Bringing Home The Bacon: What’s The Risk?

Bringing Home The Bacon: What’s The Risk?

Recent headlines last week may have caused some concern about processed meat consumption and bowel cancer risk. Not your beloved bacon! Who wants t...
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Jessica Gray's Meal Prep Tips

Jessica Gray's Meal Prep Tips

1: Prep day On Mondays I prepare all of my extras and sides to go with my pouch meals. I cook roughly 1.5kg of mixed fibrous vegetables and 1kg of ...
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Ten Things You Need To Know About Veggies

Ten Things You Need To Know About Veggies

Are you getting your five a day (veggies that is)? And your daily dose of all those vitamins, minerals like iron and calcium, plus phytonutrients? ...
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Movie Time Healthy Snacks

Movie Time Healthy Snacks

Today marks the beginning of Melbourne’s International Film Festival (MIFF).  MIFF is an iconic annual event showcasing cinematic premieres and spe...
Health Recipes
Stressed Out of Shape

Stressed Out of Shape

Sticking to healthy lifestyle goals can be particularly hard when you’re under stress. Did it ever occur to you that stressed spelt backwards, is a...
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Skin Rejuvenators and Deteriorators

Skin Rejuvenators and Deteriorators

As a follow up to last week's article, where we looked at 10 beneficial foods for the skin, this week we're focusing on the rejuvenators and deteri...
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Top Flu Fighting Foods

Top Flu Fighting Foods

Are you interested in a sure fire, flu fighting remedy? Take one very healthy balanced diet, shake it up with regular bouts of physical activity, r...
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The Inconvenient Truth About Fast Food

The Inconvenient Truth About Fast Food

The real cost Most people want to be healthy and healthy eating on a budget is possible: let's start by destroying the myth that buying fast food i...
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Coconut Confusion

Coconut Confusion

There’s a lot of confusion surrounding the coconut, which in recent years has been catapulted from humble beginnings (think Cherry Ripes and laming...
Health Nutrition
Who’s Got Time To Get Fit and Eat Well?

Who’s Got Time To Get Fit and Eat Well?

Today’s world moves fast, people try to cram as much in to their life as they can and it can seem hard to fit it all in. But fortunately, the metho...
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Intermittent Fasting – Does it Work?

Intermittent Fasting – Does it Work?

While fad diets come and go with alarming regularity, the premise of intermittent fasting is not new, but recently it has become popularized with ...
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Healthy Kids

Healthy Kids

Life is becoming increasingly busier and we seem to have less time on our hands. Whilst doing our best juggling relationships, work and family, we’...
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Time for Healthy Eating

Time for Healthy Eating

When the Australian Dietary Guidelines were redeveloped by the Government not so long ago, the focus groups that were conducted delivered some inte...
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Spring Is In The Air

Spring Is In The Air

Spring has arrived. As the days begin to grow longer and the sunshine becomes more regular, garden beds and veggie patches have sprung to life. Now...
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Fruit Glorious Fruit

Fruit Glorious Fruit

We all know that fruit is good for us. We also understand there are some people who have fructose (naturally occurring sugar in fruit) issues, but ...
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Dairy Dairy Quite Contrary!

Dairy Dairy Quite Contrary!

If any of you read the weekend A plus section of the Australian last weekend, you may have seen the article ‘The six foods I never stock at home’ w...
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Mums – Are You Too Busy To Eat Healthy?

Mums – Are You Too Busy To Eat Healthy?

Let’s face it – it can be exhausting just thinking about what to cook to feed you and your family on a daily basis, let alone ensure that you cook ...
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David “The Ox” Schwarz

David “The Ox” Schwarz

  David Schwarz made his name in Australian sport playing for Melbourne Football club for 12 seasons. Achieving the club’s best and fairest in 199...
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