A new, but old trend to hit the food market is coconut milk and coconut cream. It is big if you’re an avid Paleo follower, and if you purchase a new recipe book published in the last year or two it is guaranteed that it will contain a few recipes including the use of coconut milk or cream…
As those of you who know me will understand, one of my pet hates in life is misleading headlines. I did a whole intro presentation on this at the Sports Nutrition Live conference this year. So, imagine my first impression when my friend and colleague, Charlene Hutsebaut (@positivelyslim) shared this Independent newspaper article with me: ‘How to get fit in minutes’
Deciding to include a fresh, raw, pressed juice into your daily eating routine can come with great confusion as this popular health trend begins to gain momentum. Raw juicing has been heralded as the miraculous elixir for just about everything from promoting weight loss to preventing cancer…
Now if you are someone who strictly follows the Banting trend right now, then juicing is a big no-no. However, if you are a raw vegan or religious vegetarian, then juicing gets the daily green light. From one extreme to the next, let’s try and find the middle ground here and YOU can decide whether juicing should be consumed daily or not.
Have you ever experienced a headache or a snotty nose after drinking a glass of wine - perhaps so much so that you have begrudgingly given up your evening tipple? My Mum is such a person - if she consumes white wine or a red wine that is preserved with high levels of sulphites, she will experience a migraine. Thankfully she has worked out that if she plumps for a dark red (with lower sulphite levels), she can avoid that fate. I fortunately don’t succumb to a sore head after drinking wine, but I do wake the next morning to complaints that I was snoring in the night due to my nose being all bunged up!
If you’re anything like me, you know you need to have those dark green friendly florets on your plate regularly to remain healthy, and especially to assist you with detoxification and elimination. I had my genes tested a while back and my detox panel came back as appalling, so Ian, who was at the time my nutritional therapist, suggested I load in those cruciferous vegetables every night. That was five years ago. Now I’m superbly tired of broccoli, so I’ve done a little research to try and spruce up these green trees on my plate and therefore continue aiding my detox pathways, while nourishing my health, without saying goodbye to broccoli.
