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‘Forget the oil’ salad dressing

This recipe is so simple that it hardly requires a recipe. I love a good salad and often it’s the dressing/seasoning of a salad that makes it shine. However, many store-bought salad dressings are not so crash hot healthwise, often

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Is my diet soda making me fat?

Diet soda. It’s the favourite drink of many, a way of reducing calories, a sweet, sweet miracle that doesn’t add to your hips. Or is it? I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now. But the truth

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How much should I eat?

You may have grown up being told to eat everything on your plate, and to eat till full. It has trained us to think that our body is still hungry even if, technically, we have received all that we need

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What should I eat?

With all the noise out there from influencers (personal trainers, weight loss drug pushers, dieticians, nutricians etc) on social media, it can be hard to know what are healthy choices and which are fads or paid promotions. The truth is

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Deprivation mindset

One example of a mindset that hinders our progress is that we are going without or depriving ourselves. This kind of operating model in life leaves us feeling disappointed, and often ideas of fairness (it’s not fair) become persistent.   So

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There is a middle ground of consensus on diet

Previously I mentioned that food choices are a highly volatile subject. You’ve got so many different diets being marketed at you, how do you know which are healthy and which are hype? It’s not easy and so many people are

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What is a healthy diet?

And why do we struggle with this question? There is a lot to unpack with this question, believe it or not. Firstly, while some people may think the answer is simple, the reality is far from it.  What people actually

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