Tag: nutritionist

AQJ 142: Helping Teens to Eat Well, with Dr Damian Kristof & Jo Whitton

As kids get older and become more independent, they sometimes begin to move away from the healthy foods they’ve been raised on. Hanging out with friends, getting their license and first car, going off to work or uni, going to parties and places where the food is far from ideal… Parents often feel stressed about… Continue reading AQJ 142: Helping Teens to Eat Well, with Dr Damian Kristof & Jo Whitton

WAY 66: Melissa Gearing from The Naked Naturopath

Welcome to Episode 66 of my Podcast.  In this Episode meet Melissa Gearing, a Nutritionist, Herbalist, Naturopath and Author.  Melissa talks candidly about her life, what led her to pursue the career she has and her thoughts on motherhood and everyday life.  Melissa is passionate about prescribing herbal medicine as a tool in fighting illness… Continue reading WAY 66: Melissa Gearing from The Naked Naturopath

WAY 62: Penny Benjamin – Nutritionist

In Episode 62 of my podcast meet Nutritionist Penny Benjamin. Penny is passionate about empowering people through education, knowledge and skills to feed themselves and their families healthy, delicious meals with REAL FOOD so they can live happy, healthy lives. Penny wants to have an impact on the epidemic that is our nation’s rates of… Continue reading WAY 62: Penny Benjamin – Nutritionist

AQJ 110: Lyme Disease & Other Stealth Illnesses

In this episode, Amina E. Hillier, naturopath, medical herbalist and nutritionist from Noosa, Australia, shares with us the importance of integrative medicine for the treatment of stealth diseases. Amina specialises in Lyme disease, mould illness, biotoxins and immune challenges, helping many patients whose cases have been put into the ‘too hard’ basket to regain their… Continue reading AQJ 110: Lyme Disease & Other Stealth Illnesses

AQJ 103: Healing Eczema with GAPS

The subject of healing eczema generates a lot of conversation in the Quirky Cooking community. In a previous episode with naturopath Liezel Barnard of Weleda Australia, we talked about topical applications that can help the skin to recover. Today’s episode with Elyse Comerford, health scientist and GAPS practitioner, takes the conversation further, to the importance… Continue reading AQJ 103: Healing Eczema with GAPS

HSW 54: Sleep Deprivation and Weight Fluctuations with Dr Carmel Harrington

This week I’m off to speak at The Wellness Basecamp here in Brisbane, and I’m going to be talking about one of my all time favourite topics – that being sleep.  As a result, I’m going to replay one of my most popular episodes this week, with sleep expert Dr Carmel Harrington on the relationship… Continue reading HSW 54: Sleep Deprivation and Weight Fluctuations with Dr Carmel Harrington

HSW 32: Eating for Energy with Yuri Elkhaim.

Ongoing and relentless tiredness is such a big part of being a shift worker, which is why in this week’s podcast, I’ve brought in the expert on all things to do with boosting our energy – nutrition, fitness and fat loss expert Yuri Elkhaim, who is joining us all the way from Toronto in Canada.… Continue reading HSW 32: Eating for Energy with Yuri Elkhaim.

HSW 29: Cooking and Shift Work Nutrition with Spa Chef and Clinical Nutritionist Samantha Gowing.

Woohoo!  I’m so excited to air this episode because not only is today’s guest, Samantha Gowing, a Nutritionist, but she’s also spent decades working in the hospitality industry as a Chef, so she totally gets what it’s like to work shift work! Sam is a Chef hat-winning restaurateur, who traded her fast-paced city career to… Continue reading HSW 29: Cooking and Shift Work Nutrition with Spa Chef and Clinical Nutritionist Samantha Gowing.

HSW 27: What’s With Wheat with Nutritionist Cyndi O’Meara.

Cyndi O’Meara is certainly not your typical Nutritionist.  Despite being in the industry since the 1980’s, she continually questions and challenges a lot of the dietary and nutritional recommendations that we are being subjected to in the media today. Last year, Cyndi embarked on a massive project as she travelled the world interviewing scientists and… Continue reading HSW 27: What’s With Wheat with Nutritionist Cyndi O’Meara.