The Link Between Chronic Stress, Inflammation, and Your Health: 7 Key Effects
When stress becomes your constant companion it slowly chips away at your immune system, weakening your defences and triggering low-level inflammation that simmers away in the backg
Tabbouleh
Tabbouleh combines my two favourite foods beginning with P. Parsley and Pomegranate. Parsley What I love about Tabbouleh is that parsley is the main ingredient rather than a token
Plan B – Dealing with Covid
My! How quickly things change! Only a few months ago, in Australia, it was the unlucky fewwho fell victim to the virus, now it seems catching Covid is common as muck. If avoiding C
Water – Too Much?
How much water should we drink? Health and beauty magazines tell us to drink plenty of water so that our complexion will glow like Isabella Rossellini, our figures will ungrow to b
What is tea?
I am a tea girl from way back, unable to start the day without a full pot of tea under my belt. A tea snob too — none of this tea-bag nonsense for me, I insist on tea-leav
When Does a Therapeutic Diet become an Eating Disorder?
Do you know anyone on a very restricted diet? First to go is red meat (because of the cholesterol), then chicken (because of the antibiotics) then it’s anything with eyes.
Mim’s version of the fabled Life Changing Loaf of Bread
This bread/cake/loaf is based on The Life-Changing Loaf of Bread from mynewroots.org That is a big call…. a loaf of bread that changes your life. Perhaps a crumb at a t
A Bitter Pill
“A bitter pill to swallow” is a saying that must have had its origins in herbal medicine. Many herbal medicines are bitter, in fact, in the view of this grammatically flumm
Take a Tip from Popeye
Take a Tip from Popeye Being low in iron is common. In fact, world wide, iron deficiency is the most frequently diagnosed nutritional deficiency. Without iron, the body cannot ma
Salmon Superfood
Once only found only on plates of the posh, salmon now has a regular gig in the Australian diet. There are a couple of reasons for the popularity of our best slimy friend. F