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Exercise is not the key to weight loss. However, it has an important supporting role and can sometimes be overlooked.
We, humans, are designed to move. Our ancestors moved a lot. For the vast majority of our evolutionary history, we humans have had to exert ourselves, often quite...
Following on from a previous blog post on how calorie counting forms the backbone of the diet industry, I wanted to talk about the quality of calories.
As I mentioned, a calorie is a unit of energy.
Why we use that as a measure of what we need to eat is beyond me?!
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Is Sanitarium™ Up & Go™ a healthy brekky?
Is Up and Go good for kids?
We get asked this question all-the-time!
This product is marketed to the busy person who not only doesn’t have time to make breakfast, but they don't have time to eat it!
This in...
It grinds our gears when processed foods are dressed up as health foods and marketed to kids.
Each week, we are going expose one of these and break down some of the marketing hype.
This week it’s Milo’s turn.
"Since 1934, MILO® has been giving active kids what they...
Let's talk about comfort eating...
Emotional eating is the number one reason women fall off the wagon...
and our favourite roadblock to conquer!
You know what though?
Emotional Eating is NOT your fault
Eating is a comfort. It is known physiologically that eating causes the release of...
I want you to imagine a beautiful dog, maybe he’s your dog. Anyway, this beautiful dog has developed sore knees. He can’t jump up on the couch. He’s not as active anymore. His coat is rough, his skin is dry. You love this dog, so you take him to the vet and the vet,...
Today is World Heart Day
Cardiovascular Disease is the number one cause of death in the world.
In 2016 15.2 million deaths were attributed to Stroke and Heart Disease.
In Australia, Cardiovascular disease (CVD) was the underlying cause of death in 41,800 deaths in 2018 (26% of all...
Let’s talk about calories. The backbone of the dieting industry.
What is a calorie... exactly?
“A calorie is defined as “the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C”
So a calorie is a measurement of energy. A unit of energy...
Sleep Yourself Thin
We need between 7 and 8 hours of sleep per night for our body to thrive. Anything less is sleep deprivation.
Our society does not value sleep. Currently, most of us view sleep as something we fit in at the end of the day. In fact, people who...
At Real Life Medicine, we advocate a Low Carb Real Food Diet. Part of this includes eating healthy, natural (delicious) fats. Not all fats are healthy. In this blog, we discuss how industrial seed oils are neither healthy nor natural.
Seed oils are everywhere! They lurk in virtually...
This week we are excited to introduce a guest article from Alison at Broth of Life. Alison is very passionate about consuming bone broth for good health and produces organic dehydrated bone broth that could not be more convenient or delicious!
Filled with vitamins and minerals as well...
Hi Lovely,
Dr Lucy here.
I recently went down the rabbit hole of food labelling. I did a presentation called The Doctor’s Guide to Reading Nutritional Labels”.
Do you know you what?
It is frightening to see the products out there. Everyday products that we are eating. Products...
