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05
NOV
2010

Stress: Part Three – Natural Remedies

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Part three in a special series on stress. Part one looks at the biology of stress and part two shows you ways to change your reaction to stress. “Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that...
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04
NOV
2010

Stress: Part Two – Changing Our Reaction

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Part two in a special series on stress Read part one on the biology of stress.   Stressed is desserts spelt backwards. (Anonymous)   Biology is one thing but it doesn’t have to define us. For me, the science of stress is a useful lens to explain symptom. For example,...
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03
NOV
2010

Stress: Part One – the Biology of Stress

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“Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.” Andrew Denton   Stress has always been a part of life. Biologically, stress is the chemical cascade that gets triggered in response to threat, that has kept the human species evolving. But what was once an...
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15
OCT
2010

Acne and diet: medical science got it wrong

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I can’t count how often I’ve read a headline saying there’s no link between diet and acne. “Go on kids, eat all the sugar you like, it’s not giving you pimples” the message rang loud and clear. But despite the lack of “evidence based medicine” naturopaths have steadfastly stuck...
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are carbs good for you?
06
OCT
2010

The skinny on carbs

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In the past decade we’ve become a carbohydrate obsessed nation but there’s more to carbs than the celebrity diets would lead you to believe.   What are carbohydrates? Carbs cover one of the widest range of foods. Chemically it is formed from a delicious chemical combination...
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22
SEP
2010

Gratitude

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In this month’s newsletter, inspired by the New Zealand earthquake, I wrote about gratitude. Since the beginning of the month I’ve kept up the practice of writing a gratitude journal. It opens your eyes to seeing even mundane things in a new light. Give it a go. My...
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20
SEP
2010

Creamy cauliflower and millet mash

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Tony Chiodo’s Creamy Millet and Cauliflower Mash From Feel Good Food, with the authors permission 2 tabs extra virgin olive oil 1 onion, diced 2 garlic cloves, crushed sea salt 1 cup hulled millet, washed 400 g cauliflower florets 3 cups vegetable stock or water 1/2 tsp sea salt...
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05
SEP
2010

Home is where the heart is

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First printed in the RRR Radiothon 2010 edition of “The Trip” Triple R came into my life unexpectedly one autumn day. I’d recently arrived from New Zealand and moved into a Carlton shared house. In my spartan room furnished with just a clothes rack, futon and some...
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02
SEP
2010

Even more on sugar

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Thanks for the amazing response to the show this week. We ran out of time to take all the calls and the website got a gazillion hits. It took me by surprise what a hot topic sugar is. I’ve done programs (pre-website, sorry the notes aren’t archived) about hypoglycaemia and other...
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