If you want to eat well, and heal health issues or age well, one of the best things you can do is prepare most of your meals yourself, and avoid or limit takeaways and restaurant foods. Depending on where you live, it can be very difficult to eat good quality food, when eating out. I find it’s always a compromise. 

Dave and I eat out once a week- we have a date night on Wednesdays. And most of the time, I am disappointed! Not in Dave- he is awesome- but in what we eat. I live between Fremantle and Cockburn, in Perth, and while you would think healthy dining out food would be in abundance in this part of the world- it isn’t. 

10 Recommendations on how to protect yourself against cancer, by the American Institute for Cancer Research

Drinking more than 1 cup of coffee daily may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, according to a 2021 long term Australian study. This study went for over 10 years and the adults in the study were an average age of almost 70 when it started, and of normal cognitive ability. Over the next 10 years they were tracked and those with higher coffee consumption had a lower chance of transitioning to Alzheimer’s status in that time.

The internalised messages of needing to be in a particular sized body are very strong in our culture. And extremely damaging to women's mental health and wellbeing.

From now into the New Year, its pretty common to overindulge in alcohol and sweet, fatty foods. Its Christmas, afterall, and work events and Christmas parties are not renowned for their healthy eating options. However, here are some ways to look after your liver, (which looks after you), so that you can enter 2019 feeling light and ready for the New Year.

At this time of year many people are starting holidays and often that leads to drinking too much alcohol and snacking on unhealthy foods. It doesn’t have to be that way, and it can also be a time of rest, nourishment, sunshine and swimming, connection with family and friends, and looking after your health in ways you may not have had time for over the year.