Archive for November, 2009

Fat

Oil in water

The truth is wee need a certain amount of desirable fat. Fat free diets are a recipe to get fat. There is more fat free fad food on the market now than there ever has been before and guess what? – we are also fatter than we ever have been before. The secret, as with [...]

Eating Out

grilled shrimps with vegeables

Many people think they can not eat out on a healthy eating plan. The truth is if eating out is part of your everyday lifestyle as it is for many people, then it is important for us to appreciate that and help make the whole eating out thing manageable. This is just a matter of [...]

Coconut Oil

Coconut on white

Recently I was listening to a lecture by an Australian naturopath about the benefits of coconut oil which I found most interesting. Like most people, I was always lead to believe that coconut oil is a bad fat because it is saturated and because of this everyone was grouping it in with the fatty fats like [...]

Coffee/Caffeine

coffee beans

I often get asked, ‘So what do you think about coffee, is it bad for me?” Honestly I don’t think it is bad for you at all, as long as you have it in moderation. This is one of those products where you need to find your own truth.