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  • Australian Food is Good
    With an abundance of natural resources and almost 27,000 businesses in our food industry, Australia is a tremendous producer of food. According to the Australian Food and Grocery Council, the food and grocery sector turned over almost $119 billion in 2013-14, which means that it accounts for about a third of total manufacturing in Australia. ...
  • Winter Roast Chicken Recipe
    Winter is the perfect season for glorious, soul-warming, tummy stuffing, melt-in-the-mouth roast chicken. Nothing quite says welcome home on a cold evening like the smell of a fresh chicken in the oven, and we’re not talking about the machine-basted, plastic-infused rotisserie chickens you pick up at the supermarket! Roast chicken is the ancient family-classic centrepiece of ...
  • Winter Minestrone Soup Recipe
    What is it about soup that makes it so well-suited to winter? We have two theories about why it is difficult to go past a good soup this season: 1.    Soup has a uniformly warm temperature, unlike, say fish and chips. This means that every part of your mouth and stomach that it touches will feel ...
  • Impulse Eating: a Solution
    What is an impulse? The dictionary defines it as a “… sudden, involuntary inclination prompting action…”. When we act under impulse, we make snap decisions to do things that we had not planned to do before we set out. How many times have you stopped to find yourself doing something crazy in the afternoon and ...
  • 3 Tips for dealing with Winter Weight Gain
    It is the middle of July and there is a cold wind blowing outside. It was dark when you got home from work. It is an hour before bed-time and dinner is a distant memory now. You are curled up on the couch with a good movie and a nice bowl of… fruit salad? Not ...
  • Sardine Sangers with a Smile
    Dennis remembers sardines from his childhood. “We would get home from school and Mum would serve a pile of sandwiches on a plate with hot chocolate. There were always two sardine sandwiches in the pile, the way Mum always made them mashed with chopped up raw onion and butter on the bread. My brother and ...
  • 3 Reasons to Avoid Fitspo
    Fitspo is Fitspiration (fit + inspiration) and in case you have not noticed, Fitspo is exploding right now. But what exactly is it? Well, Fitspo is the photograph of a buff model hanging up in the gym with the caption: “Excuses Burn Zero Calories!”, or the Instagram picture of someone’s peanut butter and blueberry sandwich ...
  • Get Some Sun (it is good for you)
    For years we have been told that going out into the sun without SPF1000 sunscreen is like forcing your skin to chain-smoke double-tar cigarettes in the Mad Men meeting room. We have all seen the slickly produced “public service” warnings which equate sunbathing with skin cell torture. And for the love of all that is ...
  • Is Spot Reduction Possible?
     Burn belly fat fast with the amazing ___________! (insert revolutionary exercise machine and/or diet supplement in blank). Spot Reduction is the concept of specific body-part fat-loss. An example of spot reduction in action is the idea that doing sit-ups will melt belly-fat, or that working out on a cross-trainer will tone one’s hips and legs. We ...
  • Weight Loss while You Sleep (4 Ways to Rev up your ZZZZZs!)
    Most people are shocked to learn that half a slice of plain toast is the difference between being awake and being asleep. That’s right, when you sleep for 8 hours, your body burns only about 140 fewer calories than it would have done if you had stayed up all night watching TV instead. Burn Calories ...