How To Diet

How to diet properly. Healthy eating is about eating smart. Transform your eating habits with these easy tips.

How stress affects IBS

November 7, 2017 By Juhi Bhambhaney

About how stress affects IBS. To completely understand how stress affects the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), it is important to have an understanding of the brain-gut axis. The brain gut axis is a bidirectional continuous feedback loop between the gut and the brain. The gut has its own ‘second brain’ which controls the process of digestion and absorption and communicates back and forth from the main brain. The reason why we say the … [Read more...]

Dietitians Day 2017!

September 26, 2017 By Juhi Bhambhaney

The 19th of September is celebrated as ‘Dietitians day’. A dietitian refers to a professional who has the university qualifications and skills that enables them to provide dietary advice to manage health conditions such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, food allergies, intolerances and gastrointestinal conditions. They are the ‘go to’ health professionals for any nutrition related support or advice be it improving the nutritional status of an … [Read more...]

Nutrition tips over Christmas

December 22, 2015 By Belinda Elwin

The first and foremost rule on Christmas day is to enjoy yourself! A healthy lifestyle and diet is all about balance and Christmas is one time to reward yourself for a year of hard work. One day of being indulgent won’t significantly impact your weight or health so here are my nutrition tips for this occasion… 1. Do not discuss diets … at all. No one particularly wants to hear about your diet or be made to feel guilty for what they are eating. … [Read more...]

Understanding Nutrition and Weight Loss

March 11, 2015 By @entwellbeing

Nutrition and weight loss Considering the facts in regards to today’s average lifestyle, it is honestly no surprise that so many people are struggling so badly when it comes to obesity and weight gain. Today’s jobs require more and more sedentary hours logged at a desk or spent in front of a computer. Commonly found food options are high in calories and low in nutrition as well, which doesn’t exactly help. All that said, it’s only natural … [Read more...]

Proper Nutrition for Whole-Body Wellbeing

February 4, 2015 By @entwellbeing

Proper Nutrition By eating foods that benefit your body and its functions, you can remain in good health, and enjoy your life fully. What is Nutrition? Nutrition is the aspect of science that includes the study of the relationship between the foods we eat and how our bodies use the fuel we provide. How Does Diet Affect Health? If you want to establish a healthy lifestyle, you need to understand how the foods you eat affect your health and … [Read more...]

Eating Right for a Healthy Heart

February 3, 2015 By @entwellbeing

How to Use a Proper Diet to Stay Heart-Healthy Heart disease kills more Australians than any other cause. The risk can be reduced if you eat healthy and get reasonable exercise. It is important to maintain a weight that is healthy for your body size, and eating a good diet will help in maintaining your heart health- this includes management of cholesterol levels and blood pressure. It’s also important to keep your blood sugar in check. What to … [Read more...]

Identification and Treatment of Food Intolerance

January 21, 2015 By @entwellbeing

About treating food intolerances Many people may react unfavourably to a particular food type, and it may seem to be an allergic reaction, which typically has specific reactions and appropriate treatments, but it may just be food intolerance. Food intolerance is a different condition than an allergic reaction. Intolerance may display only slowly and with a delay after the food is consumed. The reaction may occur only when a large portion of the … [Read more...]

Proper Planning for Healthy Weight Loss

January 7, 2015 By @entwellbeing

If you’re like a lot of people living in Australia, you could probably benefit from losing some weight. You’ve most likely also heard of a lot of fad diets to lose the weight fast. You may even have tried a few. But what happens when you do? You lose a bit of water weight initially, then you get tired of all the rules, or you skip a day, or you keep on the same diet, but you stop losing weight. In fact, you may gain weight. That’s the problem … [Read more...]

Clean Eating – Small changes that make big differences

August 29, 2014 By @entwellbeing

There has been a lot of talk lately about “clean” eating. You may wonder if what is within this article is just another fad diet. It has become a favorite catchphrase for people pushing all kinds of workouts and diets. However, when you get down to the root of it, eating clean is just about eating whole, unprocessed foods. It is about getting back to basics and getting all of the nutrients you need in your diet. So what is clean eating? There … [Read more...]

Stress hormone receptors in taste buds ‘may help explain emotional eating’

June 22, 2014 By @entwellbeing

When under stress, many of us reach for sugary foods to make us feel better. Now, researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, PA, may have discovered why this is. In a new study, the investigators identified receptors for stress-activated hormones located in oral taste buds responsible for detecting sweet, savory and bitter tastes. The research team, led by M. Rockwell Parker, PhD, recently published their … [Read more...]