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How to Reduce Your Risk of Developing Kidney Stones

How to Reduce Your Risk of Developing Kidney Stones
Around 10% of people will suffer from kidney stones in their lifetime. An increase in sedentary lifestyle, poor diet choices and obesity puts you at greater risk of developing kidney stones. Kidney stones are a gathering of mineral and salt deposits which form in different sizes and shapes your kidneys. These are usually very painful…
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Support Optimal Muscle Gains by Looking After Your Gut Microbiome

Support Optimal Muscle Gains by Looking After Your Gut Microbiome
When it comes to seeing optimal results from your efforts at the gym it is probably not on the top of your list to remember to look after the health of your gut microbiome. There appears to be a ‘gut-muscle’ axis where the gut directly influences the function of your muscles. When you gut microbiome…
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Promote a Healthy Gut Microbiome to Help Detox Harmful Contaminants

Promote a Healthy Gut Microbiome to Help Detox Harmful Contaminants
Your gut microbiome is the command centre to most aspects of your health. A healthy gut microbiome promotes an optimal immune function, metabolism of nutrients and organ health. You may not know that your gut microbes also play an important role in detoxing potentially harmful environmental and food toxins. The organ of the liver plays…
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How Your Body Digests Carbohydrates  

How Your Body Digests Carbohydrates  
Have you ever thought about what happens after you have swallowed a delicious bite of a vegemite toast? For your body to digest carbohydrates there are multiple organs involved and overall is an impressive process.  Here is what happens in your body to be able to digest carbohydrates: The process of carbohydrate digestion begins in…
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Understanding Your Triggers to Eating

Understanding Your Triggers to Eating
You live in a society surrounded by food and advertisements driving you to eat. Life is not as simple as in the caveman days where you would need to hunt and gather for food and go for period of famine. Triggers for eating can be classified into two main categories. First is the physiological hunger…
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The Dieting Cycle

The Dieting Cycle
What triggers you to start a diet? When a diet starts it can often be exciting and give you a sense of positivity. You may notice a quick drop of weight which is mostly water as your body uses glycogen stores first which uses 3-4 grams of water per gram of glycogen. The sense of…
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Reduce Your Risk of Ovarian Cancer with Plant Foods

Reduce Your Risk of Ovarian Cancer with Plant Foods
Ovarian cancer is the 8th most common cancer diagnosed in Australian women. Although the ranking of ovarian cancer is out of the top 5 cancers diagnosed in Australia, the 5-year survival rate of this cancer is 45%. Diet and specifically fibre may help you to reduce your risk of developing this cancer. How fibre may…
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