How to Create an Amazon Account

You can’t make purchases from Amazon without an account, even if you are using COD, Debit/Credit card, net banking, or gift card payment. You need an Amazon account to place an order. Visit www.amazon.com in your web browser. Hover your cursor over Sign In, and click on New Customer? Start Here on the drop-down menu that appears. Click into each Read More …

Diabetes and Yoghurt: What to Eat and What to Avoid 

Yoghurt can be a great nutrient-dense breakfast option or an easy snack. If unsweetened and Greek-style, it’s low in carbohydrates and high in protein. This means it won’t cause blood sugar spikes in people with diabetes, like other sources of carbohydrates. Yoghurt that contains a total carbohydrate content of 15 g or less per serving are ideal Read More …

Recipe – Sweet Potato Lasagne

Sweet Potato Lasagna is a healthy recipe, loaded with protein, fibre, calcium,  and other delicious nutrients and is made using thinly sliced sweet potatoes as a  replacement for the lasagna pasta and cottage cheese instead of the bechemel sauce. If you don’t have a mandolin, recommend buying one. They don’t cost a lot and they are great to make those thin slices which Read More …

Recipe – Oven baked Salmon, Sweet Potato Mash, & Asparagus

Ingredients (2 Servings)2 Salmon Fillets170g Asparagus200g Sweet potatoSalt & PepperOlive oil or cooking spray Place salmon fillet on baking paper, if fillets have skin on, place with skin up (skin oiled or sprayed) and bake in oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, cook sweet potato mash, with a dash of butter, salt and pepper Read More …

Low Fat vs Low Sugar

Remember how for decades “experts” recommended “low fat” rather than “low sugar” diets, contributing to the deaths of millions? John Yudkin, a British nutritionist and former Chair of Nutrition at Queen Elizabeth, London, published in 1972 Pure, White and Deadly. The first publication to anticipate the detrimental health effects due to increased sugar consumption, especially Read More …

Health Star Ratings

Health Star Ratings are a quick and easy way to compare the nutrition of similar packaged foods. Health Star Ratings are displayed on the front of packaged foods in the supermarket. Health Star first appeared in 2014 and an increasing number of products now display them. http://www.healthstarrating.gov.au/internet/healthstarrating/publishing.nsf/content/home Health Star Ratings can appear on packs in Read More …