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Healthy Habits: Sulphur-rich ‘superfoods’ and Thai kitchen staples
Healthy Habits: Sulphur-rich ‘superfoods’ and Thai kitchen staples
You have likely been told to ‘eat your greens’, but what about ‘eat your sulphur vegetables’? Likely not I presume. However, sulphur may be one of the most important minerals we should be getting from our diet. Sulphur is not a famous mineral like calcium, iron or magnesium yet sulphur is truly a quiet achiever. 
Healthy Habits: Are you the man your Dad was?
Healthy Habits: Are you the man your Dad was?
If you measure your manliness according to your testosterone levels, sadly the answer is likely no, according to current statistics comparing men today with the previous generations at a similar age.  Naturally there is more to a man than his testosterone score, but testosterone plays a powerful role in how we feel as men. It is our dominant hormone responsible for the development of our sex organs along with playing a major role in so many of our health characteristics including muscle mass, bone density, libido, wellbeing and moods.
Healthy Habits: COVID-19 and Metabolic Syndrome, could diet help?
Healthy Habits: COVID-19 and Metabolic Syndrome, could diet help?
You may have heard the saying, ‘If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’.  As a nutritionist I will admit that I am a bit of a hammer. If someone asks, ‘How do I get more energy?’ I will likely respond, ‘Eat clean and stay hydrated’. ‘What about having better brain function?’someone asks. ‘Watch those blood sugar highs and low’ might likely be my response.
Healthy Habits: Who’s telling the health truth?
Healthy Habits: Who’s telling the health truth?
The Dieticians of Canada, a government-sponsored organisation recently came out with a Facebook COVID-19 post that read: “Please follow the advice of Public Health Officials. Do not spread misinformation. You cannot ‘boost’ your immune system through diet. No specific food, supplement or natural health product will prevent you from catching COVID-19.”
Healthy Habits: Comfort eating in a COVID crisis
Healthy Habits: Comfort eating in a COVID crisis
This COVID-19 crisis has the potential to transform people’s lives for the better or, the worse. Emotions like fear of sickness and death are great drivers for changing habits – so no doubt there are many people with a renewed urge to be fit and healthy. One of the flipsides of this lockdown is that people might find comfort in eating – so will frequently visit the fridge, even though they are not hungry.