by | Jul 28, 2015 | Diet, Food, Grains / Fructose, Nutrition, Paleo, Sugar, Your Signature Diet
Sugar has been attracting a lot of press over the past few years—and little of it good! A lot of people have ‘quit sugar’ and seen the enormous benefits of doing so. Giving up the sugar, and more importantly fructose, will benefit pretty much everyone... 
by | Jul 22, 2015 | Diet, Health, Immune system, Meditation, Mind, Personal Food Trials, raja yoga, Your Signature Diet
The immune system underpins your entire mental and physical wellbeing. Think of it as the body’s public service. It feeds the cells, cleans them, keeps the cells working together as a team and maintains an optimal environment. The immune system regulates and maintains... 
by | Jul 21, 2015 | Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, Diet, Health, Immune system, Mind, Natural Therapy, Nutrition
All of us, regardless of age and circumstance, have small numbers of cancer cells in our bodies. A strong healthy immune system has the ability to control and remove cancer cells so they never accumulate into masses that can disrupt the function of our organs and kill... 
by | Jul 7, 2015 | coeliac disease, Diet, Ecology, Evolution, Food, Gluten-free, Grain-free, Hunter-gatherer, Paleo, Your Signature Diet
Earlier this year Nutrition Australia released a new Healthy Eating Pyramid to serve as a “simple visual guide to the types and proportions of foods that Australians should eat every day for good health”. It contains the five core food groups, plus healthy fats,... 
by | Jun 30, 2015 | Diet, Food, Nutrition, Your Signature Diet
Until the early 1950s, fat was just a normal part of the average person’s diet—people were not overweight and heart disease was relatively rare. Then came Ancel Keys, a nutritionist from the University of Minnesota. Keys published a six-country study in 1953 and... 
by | Jun 23, 2015 | coeliac disease, Diet, Food, Gluten-free, Grain-free, Health, Paleo, Your Signature Diet
Touted in the health and fitness world as one of today’s superfoods, quinoa is appearing in all sorts of foods from salads to breakfast cereals. But what is quinoa and can you eat it as part of a paleo or grain-free diet? Yes! Quinoa is NOT a grain—it is in fact...