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Nowadays, we are all familiar with Type 2 Diabetes. It is such a common health condition that is partly caused by unhealthy eating habits and lifestyles…

Konjac? What is Konjac? I don’t even know how to pronounce it! Some people go for KON-yak, some go for KON-jak. I guess probably both are correct as it’s not a common food…

This week’s recipe is from chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s cookbook ‘Simple’. I’ve made a couple of slight changes, especially the amount of salt. Overall, it’s a great, refreshing fishcake…

It’s said that when Marco Polo returned to Italy from China in the 13th Century, a popular food combining a European element (semolina) and Chinese wisdom (noodles) was born – pasta….

This recipe was created by chef Bill Granger and comes from his book ‘Feed Me Now!’. It’s a very tasty and healthy dish overall except for its high sodium content due to…

Are there any other ingredients that are even less healthy than added sugar? We’re going to introduce one of them today – maltodextrin…

This blog post is written in conjunction with my Youtube video on peanut butter shopping, just in case you haven’t watched it yet. In the video, I reviewed all of the peanut butters available in Coles and Woolworths…

30 or 40 years ago, health authorities thought that fat was to blame for increasing waistlines. Over the following decades, sugar became the culprit. Now, some believe that the enemy is carbohydrates and that fat is actually good for us…