Fitness & Health

What your digestive problems say about you?

Foul-smelling wind, feeling bloated and uncomfortable, constipation, undigested food in your stools and heartburn. DR.VEGAN‘s Dora Walsh Registered Nutritionist talks about what your digestive problems may say about you… We shy away from talking about it, and although it’s embarrassing to admit, you may have quietly become accustomed to emitting foul-smelling wind, and feeling so…
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Baby & Toddlers

Is your baby coming up to weaning age? What you need to know!

You have just about got in to a routine with your baby but before you know it the next big phase is lurking around the corner and soon you will need to introduce your baby to food. For some this can be incredibly exciting but for others it can also be terrifying. There is so much conflicting information about weaning – the how and the when – it is no wonder that many of you end up…
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Fitness & Health

Healthy Skin Hair and Nails

Clear skin, shiny locks and strong nails are something we all want but as well as looking after them topically with good quality products, their health depends on them being fed from the inside. Certain foods and drinks definitely have the X Factor when it comes to offering an extra boost so here are the top ten in each category with an example ‘day in your diet’ which includes all the…
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Recipes

Recipe for your Valentine Menu - Lobster Bisque

This Lobster Bisque Recipe for your Valentine Menu is really unique! Anyone who has lovingly prepared food for another knows its potential power. Silky-smooth and sensually-satisfying is the way to go for a hot Valentines night this year and Lobster Bisque is hard to beat, say nutritionist and author, Fiona Kirk. As far back as the late 1800s, the aphrodisiac powers of seafood were championed…
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Baby & Toddlers

What to do when you are weaning a baby

Weaning (also referred to as complementary feeding) is the process of introducing babies to solid foods. What, and how, you feed your child is crucial to their development and health including developing speech and social skills. However, with so much conflicting information out there it can seem like an incredibly daunting process, instead of the exciting new stage of your baby growing…
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The A-C of vitamins - Vitamins: what do you need, how do you get them? by Dr Sarah Jarvis

We all want to be in the best possible health – and we certainly want the best for our children. Most of us can get enough vitamins from a healthy balanced diet – but some of us need a little extra help. Vitamins can be divided up into two main groups. The fat soluble vitamins – A, D, E and K – are mostly found in fatty foods like dairy foods, oily fish, liver and oils, margarine and…
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Pancake day recipe: Pancake Rapids

Here is an amazing recipe for Pancake Rapids. Get creative while making a yummy pancake this Shrove Tuesday. Ingredients Crepe pancakes (see recipe below) Lyle’s Squeezy Chocolate Syrup Lyle’s Golden Syrup Strawberries Yoghurt Blue food colouring Equipment: Frying pan Spatula Foil Method: 1. Make up crepe pancake mix as per instructions. Add Lyle’s Chocolate Syrup to the mix and…
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Top 10 tips to detox your life in 2012

We all make new year’s resolutions. They seem to be always the same which we can’t keep up with. This year is the year of the Olympics so it’s in order to desire to be sportier and healthier. Here are my good intentions for 2012 and I am sharing some tips to detox myself. 1) Try tech detox – Take it easy and spend quality time with your child/ren at least for 1 hour every…
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GET THE ENERGY FROM YOUR FOOD TO START WELL THE NEW YEAR by nutritionist Fern Callister

Do you have less energy than you used to have? Do you often get tired or lethargic during the day or find it hard to get out of bed in the morning? If so, then you are not alone. In fact, tiredness seems to have become a modern epidemic. Coffee shops spring up everywhere with their tempting muffins and cakes, telling us we must want our daily fix of caffeine. DVDs, home delivered shopping and…
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Mini Meatball and Tomato Sauce Pasta

Meatballs are a great way to feed kids as you can hide all kinds of goodies inside them that they’ll never even know about! Making them really small makes them easy to eat and to mix with Garofalo Motori pasta. You can make a huge batch of these and freeze them for later use. 2 to 3 tablespoons richly flavoured Extra Virgin olive oil 1 cloves garlic, unpeeled and lightly crushed 200g/7 oz…
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