Why doesn't orthodox medicine make people well? 22 July 2024 In last week's post, Ozempic lin

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8 April 2024 Back in Part 1 of this mini-series on GLP-1 agonists, I explained that these drugs a

1 April 2024 In his best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey caut

25 March 2024 In Part 1 of this miniseries on GLP-1 agonists, I summarised the actions exerted by

18 March 2023 A couple of months ago, I caught up with a cousin whom I hadn’t seen for several

Nutritional reductionism is getting us nowhere. Let's look at the big picture. 11 March 2024 I

16 October 2023 Recently, my elderly and very-tech-challenged mother asked me to order some of he

Back in the years BC (Before COVID) I wrote about a huge range of health topics. If you haven't alre

As the COVID-19 saga continues, I'm having more and more conversations with clients whose healthy ea

As I discussed in last week's post, The one question you need to ask yourself if you want to get hea

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I’m delighted to share an intimate and wide-ranging conversation with Andrew ‘Spud Fit’ Taylor

Every week, I see clients who have been struggling with their weight for years, sometimes decade

The emerging field of microbiome research offers fascinating, at times disturbing, but ultimately em

In Part 1 of this mini-series, we discussed cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and the cybernetic cycle, an

Updated 15 February 2021 In Part 1 of this special series, in which I'm covering recently-publish

Updated 22 February 2021 Over the last few months, I've been collecting numerous medical journal

In a previous article, Which meal should you skip for weight loss?, I discussed the findings of seve

It's nearly the end of January... and for most people, that means their New Year's Resolutions to ea

28 June 2021 Research on the effects of obesity on the human brain has made significant progress

It's a common pastime among Gen Xers like me, and Baby Boomers like my husband, to reflect on the nu

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post called Is the 'Health At Every Size' movement helping or hurt

When I was in my early twenties, I became very close to my boyfriend's Mum, who was going through me

Listen to the Influential Wellnesspreneur podcast interview with me on ketogenic diets: Part 1

Listen to the Influential Wellnesspreneur podcast interview with me on ketogenic diets: Part 1

30 October 2023 Osteoarthritis is one of our most common chronic health conditions, afflicting an

Blood is often described as the river of life. If blood flow to any part of our bodies is reduced, t

Readers of a certain age may remember the Bon Jovi song 'I'll Sleep When I'm Dead', which featured t

Updated 2 January 2023 As a Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, my job is to help people identify th

Most people who come to see me as a client, or a participant in my cooking classes, can wrap their h

Updated 24 June 2024 Back in school, you probably learned that your tongue has receptors ('taste

What mental picture do you conjure up, when you think of elderly people? Do you picture frail, stoop

The average Australian gains between 0.8 and 1.5 kg over the Christmas period, according to Nutritio

Many people are inspired to try a wholefood plant-based diet by the plethora of anecdotes about the

  A couple of weeks ago, a member of a Facebook support group that I belong to, for peop

Intermittent fasting protocols have become increasingly popular among people seeking weight loss or

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