It all started with a piece of lasagne. PhD candidate and Accredited Practising Dietitian Alice Gibson was keeping a food journal for a week when she found herself stumped for how to describe its portion size in the diary. “What’s a small, medium or large? What’s a small to me is a large to someone...
Some days, you hit your workout feeling energised and powerful. You finish knowing you gave it your all, leaving nothing on the table. Other days, you struggle immensely with major workout fatigue. You work as hard as you can, but you’re exhausted. You try to shake the fatigue and gr...
It seems like simple, obvious advice: Eat your vegetables, get some exercise, and, of course, take your vitamins. Or not. Decades of research has failed to find any substantial evidence that vitamins and supplements do any significant good. And our obsession with vitamins masks a much bigger problem...
OK, who likes chocolate? *All women around the world raise their hands*. We’ve got something SRSLY special for you… How about a self-saucing Ferrero Rocher inspired chocolate mug pudding?! Get in-the-know below… Prep time 15 minutes Cook time 45 minutes Serves 4 YOU WILL NEED 1/2 cup brown rice flou...
To promote fat loss, do you have to stop eating carbohydrates? The most asked question of a personal trainer? How do I lose weight? In the 80’s, the trainer would have said with confidence “reduce your dietary fat to no more than 10% of caloric intake”. The 90’s trainer would have said, “exercise mo...
