Binge eating is always associated with food restriction. So many of my women clients are trying to lose weight but struggle with binge eating, which is terrible for their self-esteem. They feel they have no willpower, so there must be something wrong or weak about them.

However if you try to eat too little, your body will override your willpower. …….

More good news for those who love their coffee.
Coffee has positive effects on the cardiovascular system, with 2-3 cups a day showing the most benefit (more or less than that, less so for most conditions)……

Drinking more than 1 cup of coffee daily may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, according to a 2021 long term Australian study. This study went for over 10 years and the adults in the study were an average age of almost 70 when it started, and of normal cognitive ability. Over the next 10 years they were tracked and those with higher coffee consumption had a lower chance of transitioning to Alzheimer’s status in that time.

Cravings and what they might indicate…..

Is sugar really to blame for everything it is blamed for?

Have a look at these foods which contain added sugar.

So Good Almond milk: filtered water, cane sugar, almonds (2.5%), mineral (calcium), emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), natural flavour, salt, mineral salt (sodium bicarbonate), vegetable gum (gellan), antioxidant (Ascorbic acid), vitamins (B12, B2, B1)…..

I don't think it is a big deal to have your one, perhaps two delicious cups a day. There are even many health benefits that have been studied, and coffee drinking is associated with longevity.

However, for many people, drinking strong coffee on an empty stomach first thing in the morning…

Let’s talk breakfast…some women love it, many skip it. Many women don’t feel like breakfast…or they learn to skip it to reduce overall calories or have a shorter eating window, such as with intermittent fasting.

No problem skipping breakfast…unless you are a woman with any of these issues:

Ordinary table sugar is made up of a glucose and a fructose molecule. Its GI is 65+. Honey is 61+. When eaten along with proteins and fats- such as with milk, or in a dessert- these are slowed down even further.

So, I decided a few months back now to start eating sugar again. To stop with the stevia. To moderate the starches, although not avoid them altogether. To allow myself honey in my tea, and to eat homemade ice cream, orange juice, and to let go of guilt around sugar.

I feel good. I feel well fed. I feel sweetness has been fully allowed back in my life. I feel nourished and nurtured.

For many years, I stayed away from sugar and from fruit juices. While I was reared in Australian suburbia with always having orange juice in the fridge, it was something I rejected many years ago as being less than healthy because of its lack of fibre, its sugar content. And while I did buy juice sometimes for my own kids, since I figured it was a lot better than drinking soda full of sugar or aspartane, it still felt like a compromise.

Orange juice, not from concentrate, 100% with no added anything, is now one of my favourite foods! I absolutely love it, and enjoy it at least twice a day. I buy the Nudie pulp free…..

Eating dairy has been a significant part of many cultures traditionally. Whether cow, sheep, goat, buffalo, donkey or camel, humans have adapted to the highly nutritious milk of whatever mammals were available to us to domesticate. Cohabiting with animals has a long history. We have learned to store it, process it into butter, cream, yoghurt, cheese and other delicious and nutritious foods…..

A large part of our digestion happens in our stomach, and we need to have a very acidic pH in there for this to occur well. Hydrochloric acid helps to keep the pH low, and helps to break down protein into smaller molecules. Hydrochloric acid also helps to kill off bacteria and other pathogens.

Other enzymes and hormones and electrolytes are also excreted…..

It doesn’t matter what age we are, whether a baby, toddler, child, teen, young or older adult…we all need to eat regularly to keep our blood sugar balanced.

Some lucky people can go for many hours without eating or suffering from blood sugar imbalances. 3 meals a day work for them, and they dont think about food in between, or suffer from hypoglycemic symptoms.

However, for most of us….

I think it's a good thing to be interested in one’s health and wellbeing, however it is possible to take it too far and lose perspective.

There are many extremes going on in social media and in the internet….people searching for ways to heal their sometimes extreme chronic health conditions, at times needing or being drawn to extreme approaches. But I would say,…..

I am becoming amazed at how many young women are living on chronically low calories, or cycling between very low and either sufficient or more than sufficient. Not only can you not get enough nutrition, you also will not have energy. There is a link between how many calories you eat, or let’s say how much good quality nourishing food you eat consistently…and how much energy you have……

There is evidence that fruit can be very beneficial to osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthiritis.

Fruit is really an essential, highly beneficial part of anyone’s diet. But for those….

Have you been converted to plant based milks?

No problem, dairy doesn’t suit everyone…but many plant based milks have multiple ingredients which are not exactly ideal. Vegetable gums and emulsifiers are pretty common. Carageen is common, and has been shown to damage the gut.

How many ingredients do you think they add to good quality Australian cow’s milk?…..