Injuries – What to do when you fracture a bone?

A fracture is a broken bone and will require medical attention. What are the signs and symptoms? The pain is different for everyone, depending on age,...

Craving Control

Do you feel overwhelmed by your need for certain foods (usually junk food) at certain times of the day? Do you let your stomach...

MUST READ

Yummy Pizza

Summer Punch (non alcoholic)

Ingredients 1 litre pineapple juice (no sugar added) 1 litre orange juice (no sugar added) 1/3 cup Lime Juice Cordial 2 litres diet lemonade ...

The Enticing Fast Food Descriptions – Don’t Let the Words Fool You!

In the busy lives we lead more and more people are relying on grabbing a meal on the run from fast food outlets.  Many...

Why Diets Don’t Work

Many people who make the decision to lead a healthier lifestyle will turn to some type of fad diet. Many universities have studied the...

Are you ‘Too Dressy’ or ‘Too Saucy’?

If so, you could be adding extra, unwanted calories to your meals. A healthy and nutritious meal can be altered dramatically, making it laden with...

Foods To Avoid

Think about what you ate yesterday and the day before that and the one before that ....... No doubt there was probably some ‘fast food’...

Vegetables Moroccan Style on Quinoa

(Serves 4) Ingredients 1 Tblspn olive oil 1 onion, peeled and sliced 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed 1 large carrot, peeled and sliced 1...

What’s the Difference Between Simple and Complex Carbohydrates?

“Eating carbs will make you fat!” “Cut carbs from your diet and you’ll lose weight easily”. Like fats, carbohydrates have been made out to be the...

“My Mum Was Always Dieting”

As a child, my Mum was always yo-yo dieting, always trying the ‘latest’ diet that was ‘guaranteed’ to shed the weight with very little...

Healthy Nibbles Platter

Ingredients pita bread rice crackers wholegrain spray oil 2 carrots, peeled and ends trimmed 1 red capsicum (or yellow), de-seeded 2-3 stalks celery, ends...

Rainbow Power Salad

Ingredients:    1 large beetroot peeled and grated     3 large carrots peeled and grated     2 courgettes grated     1/2...

Fish Cakes

(Serves 4) Ingredients 250g cooked fish (or canned smoked fish/tuna) 2 cups mashed potato or kumara 1 medium onion, finely diced 3 Tbspn fresh parsley,...

Calories versus Exercise

We all know that exercise should be done as a means of keeping fit and healthy, however there a many people who use it...

Healthy Eating = Healthy State of Mind

I’m sure we have all heard the old adage “We are what we eat”. These few simple words are so true! Eating the right healthy foods...

Are you… Grinning & Bearing It? or Enjoying Healthy Eating & Exercise?

We all know that losing weight, done correctly, is a slow process.  Yet, after only a short time, we are hopping on the scales...

FOOD

A Mother’s Wellbeing

It’s a full time job being a Mother and yet we often hold many more titles – Employee, Employer, Taxi Driver (to the children),...

Vegetables Moroccan Style on Quinoa

(Serves 4) Ingredients 1 Tblspn olive oil 1 onion, peeled and sliced 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed 1 large carrot, peeled and sliced 1...

Kiwifruit Muffins

(makes 12 medium sized muffins) Ingredients 150 grams apple sauce (no added sugar) 1 cup low fat milk 2 eggs 1 cup kiwifruit, peeled and...

Healthy Fruit Muffins

  (Makes 12 medium size muffins) Ingredients 2 cups wholemeal flour 4 tspn baking powder 1 tspn...

Benefits of Resistance Training

“I can work in the garden, lifting the full buckets without asking for assistance from...

Ten Top Excuses not to Exercise

It’s too cold and dark in the mornings and I’m too tired after work. I don’t...

Homemade Hamburgers

(makes 6 patties) Ingredients Hamburger Patties 500g lean mince 1 onion, finely diced ¾ cup wholemeal breadcrumbs ...

How to Relax at Work

With the pressures of busy schedules many people experience stress and stress related problems like...

HEALTH

What are Superfoods?

What does the term ‘Superfood’ mean? There is actually no official definition of the term ‘superfood’.  It has simply been applied to foods that provide...

SCIENCE

“What’s Cardio Training?”

“I have more energy to play with the grand children since incorporating cardio into my exercise routine”.   “After my heart attack I now feel more...

“Why Should I Stretch?”

“I don’t get cramps in my legs anymore”.   I can turn my neck when reversing the car”.   “I can actually zip up the back of my...

Tandoori Meatball Curry

(Serves 4) Ingredients Meatballs 500g lean lamb mince 1 medium onion - peeled & finely chopped 1 ½ tspn garam masala 1 Tbspn minced ginger 1...

Spinach and Feta Cheese Flan

(Serves 4) Ingredients 6 sheets filo pastry 1 large onion, peeled and diced 1 bag baby spinach leaves 2 eggs 1 pkt Maggi Leek &...