Do you make new year’s resolutions and goals you never end up achieving? I recommend following these 6 steps to help increase your success in meeting your health resolutions this new year.
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While it’s commonly thought that healthy eating is expensive, with a little strategy and planning it doesn't have to be. Here are my top tips and strategies for eating healthy on a tight budget.
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Ensuring our diet supports the health of our bones can help us to prevent exercise associated injuries like stress fractures. Here are the key nutrients to support health bones, and how prunes can help support a bone-healthy diet.
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Here are key tips for using up those common pantry staples in our kitchen. Now is a great time to open up those cupboards and make use of what you’ve got!
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Wondering how to organize your pantry to best support your health and wellness? Follow my list of key pantry staples for a balanced kitchen to keep you healthy and support your health goals.
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Should you be tracking your food - aka counting calories or macros? Here is my opinion as a Dietitian on the benefits and drawbacks of using food tracking apps like MyFitnessPal, and why your nutrition should matter MORE than macros.
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The main forms used for a pre-workout boost include coffee, caffeine pills and pre-workout supplements. Let’s discuss how much and which form of pre workout caffeine may be best for your needs and goals.
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Prunes are a delicious everyday superfood, and they also have some important benefits for digestive health including regularity, feeding our gut microbiome and providing us with essential nutrients.
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Intermittent fasting involves cycling between periods of fasting and eating, essentially creating patterns or “cycles of fasting” In this article, I share my thoughts as a Dietitian and Health Expert on the benefits, pros and cons, and science behind intermittent fasting.
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Have you heard that day old potatoes and cold rice are good for your digestive health, lower in calories, and more filling than their regular counterparts? Here’s are the metabolic and gut health benefits of resistant starches, and key food sources to include regularly in your diet.
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Make these delicious, high protein breakfast bars made with strawberries. They have no added sugar, and are naturally gluten free.
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Your nutrition and diet choices play a role in the severity of symptoms prior to your period. Here are the key foods and diet changes to make to help reduce symptoms of PMS like bloating, mood swings, fatigue and more.
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Using natural sweetness such as a fruit is a nutritious way to satisfy a sweet craving when it hits. When I find myself craving something sweet, though sometimes I choose the dessert (after all, treat yourself!), I like to make simple snacks with fruits as the flavoring to cut down on my added sugar intake. You might have guessed… One of my favourite fruits to use are California strawberries! Versatile and lightly sweet, California strawberries top the fruit cake in my opinion. One serving (8 whole strawberries) is low in sugar, but rich in fibre, antioxidants and other nutrients.
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The SMILES trial was the first of its kind to look at diet as a primary treatment for clinical depression. Here’s what this important study showed us about how nutrition and a mediterranean diet may help reduce symptoms of depression and improve mood.
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Research is emerging showing that natural food sources of nitrates in our diet can benefit both cardiovascular health and sport performance. Let’s discuss the key food sources of nitrates including beets, and their benefit for running and sport performance.
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Being unaware of our drinking choices can negatively impact progress towards our health and fitness goals. Here’s how alcohol affects workout recovery, and tips to drink alcohol smarter without sacrificing your goals.
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Although a complex relationship, nutrition and mental health are highly intertwined. In this article, we discuss the key nutrition factors for good mental health, and review why what we eat and how we eat has a major impact on our mood, mind and overall wellbeing.
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Following the basics of pre-workout nutrition and also finding out what works best for you, can help you feel fuelled and energized, rather than bogged down by your food. Let’s discuss how to structure your macros and what to eat pre-workout to help improve your energy, focus and performance during your training workouts.
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Do you experience sugar cravings, and want to know how to reduce them? Here are simple tips to help you adjust your eating habits and patterns so that you aren’t relying on refined sugars and sweets for an energy on a regular basis.
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In today’s post, we discuss the difference between added vs naturally occurring sugars, which types of sugar you need to be mindful of in your diet, and how to know if you might be getting too much ‘added sugar’.
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