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Michelle

Healthy Food and Lifestyle Giveaway: And the WINNER is…

Dear Readers, Today I’m pleased to announce the winner of the Healthy Food and Lifestyle Giveaway! The winner is…. Amanda Starr! Congratulations! Amanda please contact me to tell me where to send it! healthfoodlover at gmail dot com Thanks to everyone who entered! (Just a note, I may be having another giveaway next month- so […]

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Healthy Food and Lifestyle Show & a GIVEAWAY!!!

Healthy Food and Lifestyle Giveaway!!!

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Event: Fermented Foods Workshop (Sydney)

I wanted to tell you all about a really exciting event happening in Sydney on the 1st of May. The event is a Fermented Foods Workshop by Helen Padarin and others from Pymble Grove Health Centre in Sydney. MAKE YOUR OWN PROBIOTIC-RICH FOODS! For more details and to register: Fermented Foods WorkshopÂ Form Saturday 1st May […]

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How To Be Time Savvy For Your Health (Or Healthy Meals To Prepare In Advance)

How to be Time Savvy for Your Health (or Healthy Meals to Prepare in advance) These days, its true to say that many of us are stretched for time, but we all need our good health to do what we need to do.So how fit in healthy food? By doing simple things to prepare our […]

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Happy World Health Day 7/4/10: 1000 Cities, 1000 Lives

World Health Day 7/4/10 Tomorrow, April 7th 2010Â is World Health Day! About World Health Day World Health Day is celebrated every year on April 7th. It is anÂ global health initiative to promote health-related issues around the world. This year it will run events from around the worldÂ the 7-11 of April. April 7th also marks the […]

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Nutrition & Health: Where & How to Find Credible Information On The Internet

Nutrition & Health- Where & How to Find Credible Information The internet contains literally millions of sites which contain health information. Of course we Â must all do our own research to find out information for ourselves, nut how do we find out Â which is correct and what to believe? As a naturopathic student we are […]

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Apple & Cinnamon Oat Cookies (with Sprouted Wheat)

Last week I talked about how to get more whole foods into your diet. This week I present to you a lovely way to get some sprouted grains into your diet in a sweet and deliciousÂ way.

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Creamy Hot Carob & Coconut Drink

Lately I’ve been craving a creamy hot choc-type drink. ButÂ I wanted to make a dairy-free version (as sometimes I like toÂ use ‘alternative’ milks, to get more variety in my diet) andÂ I was planning to haveÂ this at night that meant I didn’t want to have something that would prevent me from sleeping (ie. caffeine) so I […]

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Is There a Link Between Saturated Fat & Cardiovascular Disease? Study Says No.

In a recent meta-analysis study by Krauss (et al. 2010) the association of dietary saturatedfat with risk of coronary heart disease aswell as stroke and cardiovasculardisease in prospective epidemiologic studies were summarized from 21 studies. Of the 347, 747 subjects that were looked at in the study over a time period of 5-23 years, 11,006 developed […]

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How To Get More Whole (and Nourishing) Foods Into Your Diet

Last time I talked about the importance of eating whole foods (and why we should avoid refined foods). I also talked about which foods we should generally try to include in our diet (whole foods) and which are better to avoid (refined foods and processed foods). This week I’m going to let you in on […]