Tag: food

AQJ 143: Helping Teens to Eat Well, Part 2

Following on from their last podcast, Jo and Fouad have an informal chat about their thoughts on helping children to eat well – with plenty of humour, stories, and insights from their own families! They talk about: the importance of knowing what your goals are, and what you’re trying to teach your kids regarding health… Continue reading AQJ 143: Helping Teens to Eat Well, Part 2

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

TNN 80: Primal Alternative

Featuring special guest Helen Marshall fellow podcaster, health coach and creator of Primal Alternative! Helen shares her story and struggles with her health and how this lead her to starting her own business, based on the principles of the paleo diet. We discuss Helen’s breakthrough when she changed her diet and how her symptoms disappeared… Continue reading TNN 80: Primal Alternative

TWIW 12: Food producers “gaming” the health star rating system

This Week In Wellness Australia and New Zealand’s health star food rating system has been criticised by Public health researchers and lawyers from the George Institute for Global Health because salty, sugary and fatty products are scoring too highly as producers are accused of “gaming the system”. With the Institute’s public health lawyer, Alexandra Jones… Continue reading TWIW 12: Food producers “gaming” the health star rating system

HBH 36: Supplements & Nutritional Supports with Peter Mullen

As we become more interested in a whole body, whole child approach to autism, it becomes important to look at what is happening at a biological level. Good food is good for everyone, we know that. But what kinds of nutritional supplementation may be beneficial for kids on the autism spectrum? What kinds of dietary… Continue reading HBH 36: Supplements & Nutritional Supports with Peter Mullen

AQJ 139: Teaching Kids to Cook, with Dani Valent

Teaching kids to cook with real food is important for their future, and the future of our planet. Our children’s enjoyment of cooking begins with our attitude towards food and cooking, and often is dependant on mum or dad being organised so they have the time and headspace to include the kids in the meal… Continue reading AQJ 139: Teaching Kids to Cook, with Dani Valent

HBH 34: Oxidative Stress, Mitochondria & Autism

Oxidative stress & mitochondria; what on earth are they and how do they relate to autism? Today we are going to make sense of this in really easy to understand language. No need to dust off the old textbook, just listen in to find out the latest research in this area. Today’ you’ll learn what… Continue reading HBH 34: Oxidative Stress, Mitochondria & Autism

AQJ 137: Fussy Eaters & How to Have Peaceful Mealtimes

Do you have a fussy eater in your home? Need some help? Beth Bonfiglio of Little Fusspot helps people from all over the world with mealtimes that are less than peaceful. She is known as the ‘supernanny of mealtimes’! Beth brings the core fundamentals of many different professions together to make a one stop shop… Continue reading AQJ 137: Fussy Eaters & How to Have Peaceful Mealtimes

TWIW 6: Sugar labels may save millions

This week in wellness a study, published recently in Circulation, estimates that the US FDA’s added sugar label could prevent or postpone nearly 1 million cases of cardiometabolic disease, including heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, over a 20-year period in the US alone. In 2016, the FDA announced several mandatory changes to the… Continue reading TWIW 6: Sugar labels may save millions

BQS 81: Food Connection

Are you connected to your food? In today’s episode Dr M dives into your connection with your food. Making a clear choice as to why you are choosing to eat the way that you eat… are you eating to heal or for life as they are often two very different things… To find out if… Continue reading BQS 81: Food Connection