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Good and Bad Fats – What You Didn’t Know! 15 Aug 2013 | 12:02 pm
Until recently, fat was seen as the number one elimination target in order to have a healthy diet. This ill repute has caused a lot of people to neglect the fact that it’s an essential fuel source for...
Coconut and Saturated Fats - The Bogeymen in the Pantry! 14 Aug 2013 | 11:06 am
Coconut oil is full of saturated fats, which are supposed to be bad for your health - right? Yet New Age health food gurus can’t seem to get enough of the stuff. Are we missing something here? Digging...
The Truth About Proteins 1 Aug 2013 | 07:54 am
Did you know that, after water, protein is the most abundant substance in our body? There is a lot of emphasis on protein intake these days but in order to make healthy decisions regarding the amount ...
Carbohydrates - Facts & Fiction 1 Aug 2013 | 07:14 am
Towards the end of the last millennium, we saw a growing movement towards ‘carb counting’ and even ‘carb aversion’. In the past decades, it has been quite trendy to demonize carbs and adopt so-called ...
The Power of Purple Foods - Maqui Berry 22 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Purple foods seem to be all the rage these days, but before you think of them as just another fad food invented some marketing exec - think again! 17th century carrots for example were mostly purple, ...
Antioxidants And Your Health 16 Jul 2013 | 06:49 am
‘Boasting the highest ORAC values of all natural foods - Maqui Berries are packed with free radical fighting antioxidants!’ Free radicals?! Is that some kind of anarchist group?! And what’s an...
Why You Should Love Chia Seeds! 8 Jul 2013 | 12:04 pm
Our web developer José gave me a funny look when I told him the reasons why I love Chia. ‘It’s just a placebo’, he smirked. I like sceptical people because they force us to keep things honest, so I sp...
Maca Colours 3 Jul 2013 | 06:20 am
Maca is a root vegetable that looks a bit like a radish and is related to the humble potato. It‘s traditionally been grown in the Peruvian mountains for thousands of years at altitudes reaching up to ...
The Petite Kitchen 30 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Serendipity is a wonderful thing – imagine our surprise when the mind behind one of our favourite cooking blogs contacted us just at the same moment as we emailed her! In less than a year, The Petite ...
Don’t be SAD – 10 Quick Fixes to Avoid the Winter Blues 30 Jun 2013 | 06:36 am
I grew up in a hot, tropical climate where we spent most of the year trying to avoid the sun! Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or winter depression was an entirely alien concept – something that happ...
