It is unquestionable that seeing a dietitian for one-on-one medical nutrition therapy services and behavioural counselling is effective in improving outcomes for chronic health issues such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes. However, it is common to see patients relapse between dietetic consults or even after the completion of consults. In order to counteract this, […]
Claims about Coconut Oil
What is coconut oil? Coconut oil is oil extracted from the flesh of a coconut. When coconut oil is extracted, all it contains is fat. It does not contain carbohydrate or protein. Fatty acids are the building blocks of fats. The length of the fatty acid chain is dependent on the number of carbon atoms. […]
Articulation Therapy – Sounds in Phrases and Sentences
In order to ensure articulation therapy is successful, goals need to be targeted at the right level during every practice session. Throughout this blog, I will be discussing how you can work on target sounds at sentence level. Here are a few activities that are useful for targeting sounds at this level. Sounds in Phrases […]
Building muscle on a vegetarian diet
What type of exercise is required to build muscle? If you want to build muscle, resistance training is the type of exercise you would incorporate into your exercise regime. Resistance training refers to exercises that require your muscles to work against resistance and try to overcome it. Eventually, this is what enables your muscles to […]
Omega-3 fats
Fats are made up of carbon atoms. Unsaturated fats contain one or more double bonds between the carbon bonds while saturated fats do not contain double bonds. The word ‘poly’ indicates multiple double bonds. Unsaturated fats tend to be liquid at room temperature and saturated fats tend to be solid at room temperature. Unsaturated fats […]
