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Welcome to our Nutrition blog

Here’s where we we’ll try to give you the right information so that you can decide how you feel about all things health-related! You’ll find discussions on current health topics, helpful hints from healthy guests bloggers, and coverage of our favourite edibles…

What exactly is an ‘alkaline diet’?

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‘Eating alkaline’ is the biggest trend in healthy eating right now, and with good reason. I’m gonna break this down for you though so you know exactly what it means and why it’s healthy. I know for me personally, I don’t just like to be told that something’s good for me – I want the [...]

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Eating is a spiritual practice

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This post is dedicated to every person who feels trapped in a cycle of restriction and bingeing, without any idea of how to stop it. Food is designed to be a beautiful gift, something to nourish us and give us life force energy. Yet for so many of us it’s a source of anxiety and [...]

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How to get rid of cellulite

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Cellulite has got to be up there in the complaints most of us women have about our bodies. With summer season looming, I thought this would be the perfect time to tackle this topic. There are so many purported solutions to it in the media, from gimmicky treatments to the claim that there’s nothing we [...]

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MSG: The Lowdown

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When you think of MSG, you think of Chinese food, right? Whilst most of us know that its something best avoided, I definitely thought it was something I didn’t consume just because I’m not a fan of Kung Pao chicken. What I didn’t realise is that its literally one of the hardest ingredients to avoid. [...]

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Toxic BPA – What You Need To Know

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A large part of your health and wellbeing is taking charge of yourself and what you surround yourself with. On the most basic level, this is food, sleep and exercise, and more esoterically, this means being around positive people, cultivating loving thoughts and having a good support network. The last part of this equation is [...]

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Food judgment

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If you are remotely interested in a healthy diet, you’ll most likely have read dozens of experts claim they know the perfect way to eat. I can totally identify with the fact that when you find a formula that makes you feel really great, you want to share it with others, shout it from the [...]

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Thoughts on the 5:2 diet

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(Source) Have you read about the 5:2 diet recently and are interested in trying it? This post is for you! The premise of this diet (also known as the ‘intermittent fasting’ diet) is that for any 2 days in your week, you consume only about 500 calories, in order to let your body rest and let [...]

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Food Diaries – The Radiance Cleanse edition

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I love reading other people’s food diaries. As a health foodie, it’s always interesting for me to see how people structure their day-to-day eats, because no two people do it the same way. There are infinite combinations you can go with whilst still keeping things healthy and fun, and that’s why it never ceases to [...]

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Raw Skincare

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It’s no secret that I believe what you put ON your body is as important as what you put IN it. After spending hours in Content Beauty trying and testing all their amazing organic, nasties-free products, one of the first things I bought was a cleanser by a brand called Live Native. They stood out [...]

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On Indulgence

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I don’t know a single person who doesn’t feel overloaded this time of year. With a week left until Christmas Day, there is work to finish up, parties every night, and lots of loose ends to tie up before 2013. With all the opportunities for indulgence that creep in, it’s easy to think it’s ok [...]

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