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It’s warm up time!
In the cooler weather it can be a little more difficult to find the motivation to keep up an exercise routine. It is also the time when we are prone to muscle strain if we don’t warm up properly and Vitamin D deficiency due to less exposure to glorious sunlight, potentially making us feel depressed as Vitamin D deficiency can contribute to seasonal affective depression. It is also important for regulating the immune system and absorbing calcium for strong healthy bones. I know that I find myself feeling a little flat by the middle of winter and the cold [...]
Aloe Vera Juice- literally hundreds of nutritional benefits in one bottle!
Lots of people are familiar with the many benefits of using Aloe Vera topically for alleviating sun burnt skin- but the true therapeutic scale of this wondrous succulent is little known by most. The benefits from drinking pure unsweetened Aloe Vera Juice are just out of this world. Aloe Vera has over 150 Nutritional ingredients- including 19 of the 22 amino acids required by the human body. The main constituents of Aloe Vera include: amino acids, anthraquinones, enzymes, minerals, vitamins, lignins, monosaccharide, polysaccharides, salicylic acid, Saponins, and sterols.33 The salicylic acid components of Aloe make it a terrific anti [...]
Winners are grinners!
How is recovery going? I hope you feel refreshed and ready to go again. Your routine has been broken and it might be a bit hard to get back into it but you will feel the benefits of a break in the long term and the motivation and love of sport will stay alive for many years to come! Start back slowly and keep enjoying yourself by doing other sport and indulging yourself a bit. Don’t start being too serious with nutrition and training until two months before your first race. Again, this is to keep you in the [...]
Is modern wheat driving the Type 2 Diabetes epidemic?
Dietary Guidelines for adult men and women on the Australian government’s Healthy Weight website advise that we should be eating between 6 and 8 serves of breads, cereal, pasta and rice every day. This translates into rather a lot of wheat based products throughout the day - starting with cereal or toast for breakfast, the mid-morning muesli bar, wholegrain sandwich for lunch, a couple of biscuits with afternoon tea and then pasta and perhaps a garlic bread to go with it for dinner. If eating such high levels of wholegrains really is the healthiest diet for us, why are [...]
Introducing . . . the 2014 Australian Champion
For quite a while now, we have been lucky to have a really great guy writing our Fitness Blog. His name is Stephane Vander Bruggen and he is a triathlete. And not just any triathlete (although, in saying that, any triathlete is pretty awesome considering the gruelling discipline they have chosen) - he is the current Australian Champion in OD Mens 35-39 and has been a World Champion in his discipline. He is in fine form to take the gold again this year at the World Championships in China. Stephane loves Cabot Health products - and, in particular, our Magnesium [...]
Part of staying healthy, motivated and active in your future, is recovery
How is your training going? Are you coping with the intensity? Do not forget that it is the little things you do will make a huge difference to your recovery. What I mean by that is things like massages, stretching, right nutrition, bath = ice and Epsom salt, Cabot Health vitamins and minerals, compression wear, proper sleeping pattern and habits...Part of staying healthy, motivated and active in your future, is recovery. April is a month where the racing dies off, unless if you a winter cross country club in your town. So take some time to recover so we can [...]
Is soy a healthy food or not?
By naturopath Margaret Jasinska Soy foods have become a controversial topic recently. Many people are giving up cow’s milk for various reasons and turning to soy milk as an alternative. Is this really a better option though? Many of our patients feel better when they stop consuming cow’s milk and foods that are made of cow’s milk. They have less sinus and hay fever problems; their digestion improves, their skin clears up and itchy rashes often disappear. There is quite a bit of controversy over whether dairy products are responsible for a large range of common health problems, and whether [...]
Find a little love in your heart… for you!
Do you ever acknowledge what a wonderful human being you really are? Unfortunately, most of us don’t. But have you thought about how much you really invest in caring about yourself and taking time to acknowledge how amazing you really are? If not, I recommend it! A bit of self-love is something we should all partake in. We all have our negative qualities and often these are the things that we focus our thoughts on... But what if we do the reverse? Is there any harm in acknowledging that you are an amazing and unique human being? Absolutely not. I [...]
Sacha Inchi Berries! Heard of them?
I ate prayed and (self) loved my way through the Amazon to discover a world full of color, life and super foods I had never heard of. One of which I would like to introduce you to today. When I was 32 I went through what I would say is to date and I know always will be- my life’s greatest challenge, both on a personal and physical level. My then long term relationship broke up- in a very shallow way, and as a consequence of that relationship, I was also unwell, not just emotionally, but physically- I was put [...]
Super Pom! Otherwise known as a Pomegranate
They may not have a cape, but Pomegranates are super high in anti oxidants – so high, they are in the class of foods known as super foods. In fact many studies show that a pomegranate is one of the most powerful, nutrient dense foods for overall good health. Pomegranates contain high levels of flavonoids and polyphenols, potent antioxidants offering protection against heart disease and cancer. The Antioxidants in Pomegranate keep LDL cholesterol from oxidizing and causing hardening of the arteries known as atherosclerosis. A glass of pomegranate juice has more antioxidants than red wine, green tea, blueberries, and cranberries. [...]
