Seeds of changes

I’ll be upfront about this: I am writing this blog in the hope that it inspires you to get your cholesterol levels checked. Why? Well, primarily because it could save your life. Time and time again, both personally and professionally, I witness seemingly healthy individuals with dangerous levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol and/or low levels of HDL (good) cholesterol, with mixed triglyceride levels thrown in for good measure too. This blog is not intended to be scientific, it’s i

Switching to plant-based diet is a hot topic of conversation right now and as a Child Nutritionist, I often get asked my professional opinion about kids becoming vegetarian or vegan. As a mother, it’s hard to divorce myself from the answer I give, so I write this blog from the vantage point of feeding a toddler (well, 3yr old) several times a day as well as from a place of knowledge having personally studied Vegan & Vegetarian Nutrition. Firstly, it is possible for any human

As a Nutritionist in Phuket, Thailand, the subject of meat consumption seems to come up frequently. So many of us ex-pats living on the island have arrived here from Western countries where the volume of meat consumed is alarming to say the least! I certainly know from my 14 years in Australia that what is considered the ‘norm’ over there, would be fairly abhorrent to a Thai person. BBQ is a cultural mainstay of the land Down Under but a piece of steak to feed one grown man j