For a few decades I have been informed that obesity is protective for osteoporosis. All that extra fat was producing estrogen and that was protective. All that load was good for the bones. Well – not so.

I think inflammation goes hand in hand with osteoporosis and new studies are showing that obesity is directly related to osteoporosis.

Who are we to believe? Coles or Sunbeam? 35% or 64.2% sugar for the ‘same’ Australian sultanas. Same dried fruit but different percentages. Hmmm

The Coles sultanas are 35.0 g/100g sugar and 76.4 g/100g carbohydrate.

The Sunbeam sultanas are 64.2 g/100g sugar and 69.0 g/100g carbohydrate. Continue reading →

Fourteen million Australians are overweight or obese.
The huge amounts of refined carbohydrates we are consuming in the form of bread, pasta and rice are converted into fat. Our bodies turn that carbohydrate into glucose and we can only ‘use’ about a teaspoon of glucose in our bodies at one time. The rest is converted into fat. Sugar is a carbohydrate too. Added sugar adds to the burden of excessive fat production.
The prevalence of obesity in Australia has more than doubled in the past 20 years. Continue reading →

These are some words written by Belinda Fettke BPhotography on our Nutrition for Life community page.

Nutrition is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “The process of providing or obtaining the ‘food’ necessary for health and growth”.

As a parent, we have sole responsibility for providing ‘nutrition’ to our children. We physically put ‘food’ on their plates; into their bowls for breakfast, pack their lunchboxes and serve them dinner every night. We provide snacks between meals and cater for their parties.

In fact, from the moment our child is born, we play the principal role in their ‘nutritional’ education and surely, the most powerful message we share with them, is simply ‘leading by example’ every single day.

It is up to us to stay educated and nourish our children to help them live healthy and happy lives.

I read this incredible article yesterday and wanted to share it with our Nutrition for Life community.

I have come away with three messages and I hope you do, too!

While I have always believed in the nutritional benefits of ‘parenting love’ and have seen first hand, how our children have grown into beautiful caring young adults, nurtured by our love, this article made me rethink a couple of things …

It gave me a clear perspective on the importance of connection, at a time when, as parents, we can be so easily distracted by technology, social media and somehow our lives just keep getting busier and busier.

The ‘nutrition’ we give our children is more than just food and I needed to read this to remind myself to keep nourishing them, even though they have grown up and become young adults now.

Time goes so quickly. Our youngest is moving to Melbourne next week to set up her own home for the first time and I will miss her as I miss her older brother and sister.

Hold your child till they let go.
Always give your child eye contact when they talk to you.
Smile when they walk into the room”.

Perfect advice and a wonderful, gentle reminder, of what is really important in our lives!

Take the link to this article from Mind Body Green

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-16864/how-to-show-your-kids-you-love-them-without-saying-a-word.html

Are you finding the first few days a little ‘stressful?

Are your loved ones finding you a little ‘stressful’? 🙂

Cutting way back on carbohydrates and in particular sugar can be a stressful time, particularly days 1 to 3. That’s when you find out how much of a chemical effect that fructose has.

That ‘sweet’ sensation driven by fructose, glucose and even artificial sweeteners has an effect on the nucleus accumbens in the brain. This is a reward centre and associated with ‘addiction’ tendencies.

There are a few tricks to get you through this period. Check them out at http://www.nofructose.com/food-ideas/food-tricks/

Download the ‘What to expect’ page as well at http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/cholesterol-testing/
Give them a try.

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Are you new to LCHF?

Are you finding the first few days a little ‘stressful?

Are your loved ones finding you a little ‘stressful’?

Cutting way back on carbohydrates and in particular sugar can be a stressful time, particularly days 1 to 3. That’s when you find out how much of a chemical effect that fructose has.

That ‘sweet’ sensation driven by fructose, glucose and even artificial sweeteners has an effect on the nucleus accumbens in the brain. This is a reward centre and associated with ‘addiction’ tendencies.

There are a few tricks to get you through this period. Check them out at http://www.nofructose.com/food-ideas/food-tricks/

Give them a try.

Lifestyle related health and the ‘dangerous idiot’ factor. I did have ‘d!c&head’ here but have toned it down.

I am just finishing up a week of on call Orthopaedic Surgery commitments here in Northern Tasmania. The Christmas – New Year run can be a ‘fascinating’ time. It was clearly a devastating time for some patients and their families, a busy time for ourselves and as my training registrar said, “an interesting collection of conditions. It’s never quiet when you are on call Mr Fettke.”

Most of the problems we faced through the on call period were lifestyle related. Unpredicted, predictable and or ‘dangerous idiot’ related. Continue reading →