Salmon with sweet potatoes and zucchini

Servings 4 Ingredients 400g orange sweet potatoes (kumara) Olive oil cooking spray 2 zucchinis 4 x 175g pieces salmon, pin-boned, skinned 80g pitted Sicilian green olives (see note) 1/2 bunch mint 60ml (1/4 cup) extra virgin olive oil 1 lemon 1 clove garlic 1/2 avocado Method Step 1 Place a roasting pan in oven and [...]

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Do diet soft drinks help you lose weight?

There is no doubting the consuming large amounts of soft drink is bad for you and make you gain weight! But what about diet soft drinks such as Pepsi Max or Coke Zero? Large companies have spent billions of dollars convincing us that diet or sugar free is the healthy, lighter choice if you want [...]

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Are carbs really the enemy?

Just like a car our bodies need fuel to function. Fuel can come from either glucose, fat or protein. However our primary fuel source of energy is glucose. So where does glucose come from? It comes from carbohydrates – chains of sugar molecules in food that are broken down by the liver to produce glucose [...]

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Learn how to read nutritional labels

Many of my clients have queries about food labels. This post is going to teach you a few things about what you need to look out for. First let me start by saying, the more foods we eat without food labels the better for our health. Eating less processed food will help us lose weight [...]

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