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• Too much fruit?

    10/02/2019     Articles     0 Comment(s)

  Fruit can be a great healthy convenience food for everyone and especially is loved by children for it’s natural sweetness. But can you eat too much fruit?  Well yes, you can eat too much of anything.  But fruit, although does […]
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• Functional Testing

    28/01/2019     Articles     2 Comment(s)

  As a holistic nutritionist I can arrange a number of functional tests including: Full blood count Various vitamin and mineral deficiencies eg iron, B vitamins, zinc, vitamin D, iodine etc Cholesterol, triglycerides, homocysteine etc Thyroid panels Diabetic panels Coeliac profiling […]
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• Fermented Foods – Just a fad?

    08/03/2017     Articles     0 Comment(s)

  You would need to be living under a rock if you were not aware that fermented/cultured food is all the go at the moment.  On social media there are people taking pictures of their home-made fermented products, the paleo people […]
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• Natural Pain Relief Options for Labour

    02/02/2017     Articles     0 Comment(s)

  I thought I would share a personal experience and give some insight into what natural pain relief options I tried in labour.  I gave birth to my baby boy Thomas just over 10 months ago and I used a variety […]
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• What is Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome?

    02/02/2017     Articles     0 Comment(s)

  Everyone would have heard of diabetes whether it be type 1 or type 2 (click here for more info), but do you know what Insulin Resistance or Metabolic Syndrome are and how they could be silently affecting you or someone you […]
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• Diabetes – Is it all about sugar?

    02/02/2017     Articles     0 Comment(s)

  Further to my article last month on Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome, this month I will focus primarily on Type 2 Diabetes. Every day 280 Australians develop diabetes and in the past year 100,000 Australians have been diagnosed with Type […]
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• Gestational Diabetes Diet and Lifestyle Tips

    02/02/2017     Articles     0 Comment(s)

  Gestational Diabetes (“GD”) is now a very common place term – between 5%-8% of pregnant women are developing GD between week 24-28. If you haven’t heard of it, it is a form of diabetes that can occur in pregnancy and […]
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• Morning Sickness Diet and Lifestyle Tips

    02/02/2017     Articles     0 Comment(s)

  Congratulations on falling pregnant! Pregnancy is a wonderful time of exciting things to come, but can also be a time of some strange and interesting changes to your body and lifestyle. Pregnancy recommendations If you read my article on Pre-Pregnancy […]
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• Pre-Pregnancy Diet and Lifestyle Tips

    02/02/2017     Articles     0 Comment(s)

  Are you thinking of becoming pregnant and are not sure what sort of changes you need to make to your diet and lifestyle before you fall pregnant? Before falling pregnant, it is best to make sure you are in the […]
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• IBS and FODMAPS

    18/01/2017     Articles     0 Comment(s)

  There was recent media attention on IBS and how eating a low FODMAPs diet can help with the symptoms of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). There was emphasis that the best person to see for this condition is a dietician. Having […]
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