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  • Raw Broccoli and Cranberry Salad Recipe

    Raw Broccoli and Cranberry Salad Recipe

    A delicious salad recipe I found in the Revive Café Cookbook Edition 6 by Jeremy Dixon. I made it over the Christmas period and it went down well.

  • Boost your Day with A Mighty Vegetable

    Boost your Day with A Mighty Vegetable

    Broccoli sprouts contains a compound called sulforaphane. They contain up to 100 times more sulforaphane than normal broccoli.

  • Broccoli Sprout Smoothie

    Broccoli Sprout Smoothie

    Kick-start your day with a green smoothie or enjoy it as a snack to keep you feeling refueled and to help you detoxify your liver.

  • Let’s Talk Insulin Resistance

    Let’s Talk Insulin Resistance

    Lack of exercise, overeating, and poor food choices such as fast foods, sugary snacks or excess caffeine or alcohol, all contribute to insulin resistance. Stress can play a role too.

  • Beef Cheeks Recipe

    Beef Cheeks Recipe

    A quick and easy recipe for beef cheeks that can be done in the crock pot.

  • Mushroom Curry Recipe

    Mushroom Curry Recipe

    Recipe for a warming winter curry with mushrooms. Taking the seasons and your constitution into consideration, you can help your body to digest food more efficiently.

  • Let’s Talk Gut Health

    Let’s Talk Gut Health

    Chewing is a free and easy way to get the full benefit of the food you eat. Your body will thank you and you will feel better for it.

  • Slow Cooked Plum Venison Stew Recipe

    Slow Cooked Plum Venison Stew Recipe

    As we move into the cooler months, our needs for warming foods become greater. Here’s a recipe for a nutritious warming venison stew.

  • Understanding Intuitive Counselling

    Understanding Intuitive Counselling

    We often talk about following our intuition. What exactly is it? It’s our inner knowing, our connection to the truth and what feels right for us.

  • Does Reiki Really Work?

    Does Reiki Really Work?

    Taking the time to receive a Reiki treatment allows us to relax and our bodies to heal.

  • Let’s Talk Liver Detoxification

    Let’s Talk Liver Detoxification

    Find out how best you can support your liver. Lower your intake of toxins and flush stored toxins safely with a detox.

  • Belief can Change Biology

    Belief can Change Biology

    You’ve been diagnosed with coeliac disease or you have been advised to do an elimination diet by a nutritionist or dietician. What do you do?

  • Let’s Talk Gluten Free

    Let’s Talk Gluten Free

    You’ve been diagnosed with coeliac disease or you have been advised to do an elimination diet by a nutritionist or dietician. What do you do?

  • Gluten Free Curried Lentil Recipe

    Gluten Free Curried Lentil Recipe

    Lentils are high in protein, folate, fibre, iron, potassium and manganese. Great food for the gut bugs and have been shown to lower cholesterol levels.

  • Power Salad Recipe

    Power Salad Recipe

    We should be getting five to seven servings a day of vegetables. One serving is about the size of your palm. Even as a nutritionist, I have to work hard at ensuring that I have a good intake of these nutrient dense foods every day.

  • Are you Sleeping Enough?

    Are you Sleeping Enough?

    Research has shown that lack of sleep is a key lifestyle factor that will determine whether you will get Alzheimer’s or not. Going without sleep for a week would affect your blood sugars to such an extent that you would be classified as pre-diabetic.

  • What are the Benefits of Reiki

    What are the Benefits of Reiki

    To heal, the body needs be in a parasympathetic dominant state, which is our rest and digest mode. Reiki helps us switch to this mode, which facilitates the healing process.

  • Is Intermittent Fasting Good for Us?

    Is Intermittent Fasting Good for Us?

    Fasting is an ancient tradition that has been around for eons and the amount of research into the benefits of fasting has increased vastly. The body has an amazing ability to heal itself, if we allow it too. Generally we eat too much and too often and we choose the wrong foods.

  • How to Unwind Stress and Overwhelm

    How to Unwind Stress and Overwhelm

    Many of my clients don’t realise they are stressed. They see it as just part of life, or they don’t acknowledge the stressful situations they find themselves in. Often they just soldier on. Unfortunately this doesn’t change the internal dialogue that is going on at a conscious or unconscious level.

  • Are You Suffering from IBS?

    Are You Suffering from IBS?

    Are the days of a settled, flat tummy without pain a distant memory? We all experience digestive upsets occasionally, but if it’s not the norm, this may indicate that you have something called irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). It is believed that between 15 to 20% of New Zealanders suffer from this condition.

  • Let’s Talk Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    Let’s Talk Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    IBS affects around one in seven New Zealanders. It’s likely that you have friends or family that suffer from this frustrating and embarrassing condition.

  • Low FODMAP Quinoa and Roasted Pumpkin Pecipe

    Low FODMAP Quinoa and Roasted Pumpkin Pecipe

    Quinoa provides a wide range of amino acids, which support muscle development, immunity and other essential functions.

  • Can Counselling/Coaching Change your LIfe?

    Can Counselling/Coaching Change your LIfe?

    Reaching out to a qualified counsellor/coach can be helpful during these challenging life events. A trained professional is not connected to your life in anyway and is able to listen without judgement or bias.

  • Chai Seed Berry Blast

    Chai Seed Berry Blast

    My go-to recipe for a quick nutritious dessert. Chia Seed Berry Blast – packed with good fats, vitamins, iron, iodine, magnesium, manganese, niacin, thiamine, antioxidants and fibre.

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