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The Truth About Low-Fat Diets

For more than 30 years, the low-fat diet has become the norm in...

Stop Overeating – Sizing Up Portion Control

If you’ve ever tried to count calories, calculate grams, or weigh each food portion, you know how time-consuming and confusing it can be. The good news is that HOW MUCH you eat is not as important as WHAT you eat. When you eat the right foods for your body’s needs, it is very difficult to overeat. However, you may feel that even when eating nutritious meals, you stuff yourself until your stomach hurts. Yet, calculating portion sizes doesn’t seem to help you stop going back for second and third helpings. So here are some simple solutions to help you eat the right amount of food every time.

Slow Cooked Lamb Shanks

Bex shows how you can prepare lamb shanks in a slow cooker (crock pot) in 20 min before you go to work!

Weston Price – Nutrition and Physical Degeneration – Chapter 3

The ‘Isacc Newton’ of Nutrition. An American Dentist is the 1920 – 30’s who was perplexed by the growing increase in ‘dental deformities’ and health problems of his patients. Due to the discoveries at the time of isolated populations around the world with perfect teeth, Dr. Weston Price embarked on a 10 year journey to study 11 isolated groups of people in their natural environment to discover why their teeth and health were better than Americans with dentistry and modern conveniences and what foods they were eating to cause such perfect teeth. This amazing book is his journey. We at Primal Health consider this our bible of nutrition.

Primal Kids – Real Food for Growing Bodies!

Kaiya has always eaten what we have from day one of weaning her onto solids. Real Primal sources of food that haven’t been mashed or that come from a packet or formula. Get some ideas on how a Primal Kid eats!

Primal Baby – Baby Led Weaning – No More Mashed-Up Food!

Kaiya has always eaten what we have from day one of weaning her onto solids. Real Primal sources of food that haven’t been mashed or that come from a packet or formula. Get some ideas on how a Primal Kid eats!

What’s in Our Fridge, Freezer, Pantry and Fruit Bowl

Sunday morning means our shopping trip to the farmer’s market for samples, socializing, snacks on the grass, and most importantly, stocking up our fridge. The farmer’s market is our supermarket, and Sunday mornings is our main weekly shop, with top-ups through the week from our organic food delivery, wholesale butcher, plus bits and pieces at the grocery store.

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

I was recently in a position where I could have a sneak peek at the personal documents of thousands of community members. These documents gave me a snapshot of their habits, needs, desires and vices. Okay, it was nothing shady, I was simply handing out competition entry forms at a shopping centre over six weeks, and the documents that were shown to me to gain entry into the competition were shopping receipts.

10 Ways to Kids Who Eat Healthier Than You

It’s right up there with temper tantrums and erratic sleep patterns, the most common complaints from parents, my kids won’t eat healthy food. If you relate to this, you probably resort to trickery and bribery to get your kids to eat vegetables, prepare separate kid meals daily, and resign yourself to the fact that all your kids will eat is chips and sausages.

Nut-Free Raw Cacao Balls Recipe

Raw Cacao balls to satisfy your sweet Primal tooth!

Don’t Add Vegetables to Your Meals

Have you been told to add vegetables to at least two of your daily meals? Do you often plan a meal, and then ‘throw in’ a vegetable on the side to ensure you get your veggies? Do you regularly have to throw away vegetables that rotted in your fridge because you forgot to prepare and eat them?

The Only Superfoods You’ll Ever Need…

If you are striving toward better health, you’ve no doubt heard about all the superfoods which will supposedly change your life around with their antioxidant super powers.

Beware of Health Gurus Claiming This…

Being healthy, like most important things in life, is a life-long journey. I don’t mean that it takes your whole life to become healthy. We don’t ‘become’ healthy at any one exact moment in time, and then stay that way from then on. Rather, as our circumstances in life change, as our bodies’ requirements change, and as we learn more about food and our individual needs, our approach to health will evolve. When Brad and I met, we were excited that we were both ‘healthy eaters’.