An ounce of prevention is worth several kilos of cure. Rather than waiting until after the usual festive season challenges, we’re helping you get onto the front foot — clad in your favourite walking/fitness shoe, of course ! Most of us know the basics: exercise, supportive nutrition and moderation. Yet still, it’s a struggle for many [...]
It’s the eve of the race that stops the nation here in Australia. Yes, Melbourne Cup Day is nearly here. It’s a day of exceptions. Horses not expected to win can win People who don’t usually bet on horses are more likely than not to have a flutter People who don’t usually imbibe might have a [...]
I’m not sure how it dawned on someone to head off to Greenland and study the Inuits and their diet with regards to cardiovascular disease. It happened back in the 70s, which could explain a lot. My personal theory is that a bunch of professors were sitting around listening to I am the Walrus by the [...]
There are several things you can count on during Spring. Someone you know will start spring cleaning. (There’s always someone who wants to mess it up for the rest of us. I have a theory: if no-one touches a layer of dust, is it even really there?) Someone you know will have started a new fitness [...]
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Companion oil: Young Living Inner Child™) Last week’s Feel Good Friday post on nurturing your inner child inspired quite a bit of correspondence. If you missed it, you can get up to speed here. It might not strike a chord for [...]
One of the reasons Australia is called The Lucky Country could be our abundance of public holidays. We do enjoy our days off! But if you’re trying to shake off fatigue in spite of having had a relaxing weekend, long or otherwise, let’s take a look at what might be causing it, and easy, natural ways [...]
Nutritionists seem pretty much on the same page when it comes to nuts nowadays. No more eeking three lonely cashews out of the jar as a rare naughty treat. High fives all around! On the contrary, nuts in moderation might help lower cholesterol, with studies finding a serve of raw unsalted nuts (around 1/3 cup or [...]
Loving Spring as I do, I’m relieved I don’t suffer from seasonal hayfever. I’d be disappointed to have to dread such a spectacular time of year. If you’re one of the unlucky ones who endure allergic rhinitis, you have plenty of company. Over one in seven Australians sneeze and wheeze due to this condition, making it [...]
Back in the 70s, no dinner party was complete without big hair, groovy wallpaper and after dinner mints — you remember, those wafer-thin ones in the individual black envelopes that looked ever so discreet but vanished from the tray in a very indiscreet fashion. Today’s healthful choc-mint truffle balls might not fit into tiny waxed paper [...]
Back in the seventies, when I thought of coconuts, I pictured Reef Oil, Golden Roughs and Gilligan’s Island. Good times. Little did I know (or being truthful, little did I care at that time of my life — how things have changed) that the humble hairy coconut would now be thought of as a wonder food of [...]
