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Gluten free: Simple lunch idea’s Aug 13
Simple ways to replace the traditional sandwich:
  • Keep pre-cooked rice in the fridge: This can be refried and served with eggs, beans, or whatever you feel like with it. Also, you can make a quick salad with the cold rice.
  • Potatoes: Keep some precooked potatoes in the fridge to make a salad with. Also, you can cook a potato quickly in the microwave and top it with any filling you like, e.g. salsa, avocado, cheese.
  • Crisp-bread: There are lots of gluten free crisp-breads available, rice and corn cakes are naturally gluten free and economical. You
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Vitamin D Jul 23
Vitamin D is not strictly speaking a vitamin; it is more accurately a precursor to a hormone and has many important functions in the body. The most known function is in calcium absorption, but it has many other roles including immune function and cardiovascular health. Vitamin D deficiency causes some very serious conditions, such as rickets in children, and osteoporosis in adults.   Insufficiency has been associated with increased risks of:
  • Various cancers
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Type 1 diabetes mellitus
  The most
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Healthy Lifestyle Tips Jul 09
Changing habits can be very challenging, many of our habits have developed in our childhood so can be near impossible to change.  Here are some tips to help you make long term changes to your lifestyle:
  • Set realistic goals - Set both long and short term goals, but be sure they are achievable, and don't set too many at once. Write them down, it can help to put them in places you will regularly read them, like on the back of the toilet door, or on the fridge.
  • Change one thing at a time -
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Iron: A quick guide Mar 16

There are two ways that iron can be increased, by consuming more, and by improving the absorption of what is consumed. To reach optimal iron levels, it’s best to be doing both.

Rich Sources of Iron

Red meat

Fish

Poultry

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