WHAT IS THE GUT MICROBIOTA?

The gut microbiota is the name given to the 40 trillion strong microbe population living in our intestines. The composition of the gut microbiota is unique to each individual (even identical twins) and can be affected by many factors includin...

Have you ever felt guilty over the holiday period for overindulging? Does one day of unhealthy eating derail your efforts to get back on the wagon until January? Do you set unrealistic New Year’s resolutions, thrashing it out in the gym throughout January to ‘cancel ou...

Part 3: Credible supplements

Throughout Part 1 of ‘Fuelling for F45 and CrossFit’, the focus was on getting the big ticket items sorted first to get the best results from your training.

Part 2 focused more specifically on fuelling before and after F45 and CrossFit traini...

Let’s keep this uber specific to high intensity training (e.g. F45 & CrossFit). Firstly, we each contain the necessary energy (carbs, fat & protein) our muscles need to train as hard as we can for 60 minutes. This is based on the assumption you have the big ticket item...

Part 1: Big ticket nutrition

Whether your aim is to reduce body fat, increase muscle mass, increase speed and/or endurance, or simply to get fit, feel and look good, you could be undoing all of your hard work in the gym by following the wrong meal pattern.

In many cases,...

Like with most professions, working as a dietitian has its pros and cons. Sure there’s upside, I help people for a living. Job satisfaction…tick. I also apply much that I have learned over the years to my own eating pattern. But if you’re thinking I’m a clean eating, r...

Time and time again I see people who want to eat healthy food succumb to competing pressures. Whether it is price, convenience, time, mood, stress, work, temptation, or any other factors that influence our eating patterns, when push comes to shove, eating nutritious fo...

Millions of people pour their heart, soul and hard earned money into weight-loss products and services that don’t usually work. While losing weight in the short-term doesn’t seem to be a problem for some, keeping it off is a real struggle, even for the most determined...

Most diets rely on reducing body fat by restricting the calories we eat and increasing our activity.

Many of us have spent years eating low-fat food, counting calories, going on extreme fitness regimes and testing out our willpower…There’s just one problem with this so...

In my last post I provided my 3 top tips to lose weight and be healthy:

1. Turn the starvation alarm off – help your brain relax by avoiding calorie restriction to lose weight.

2. Reduce insulin spiking foods and drinks – go easy on refined sugary and starchy carbohydrat...