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Tips for fighting the Common Cold

This year you may be in for a cough or cold. And its considered “normal and healthy” to have 1-2 per year.

Children will have more and as do the elderly (nutrition status, exposure to other sick people and pre-existing diseases makes a big impact on this).

Typically you know you have a cold if you have a headache, runny nose, sneezing, blocked nose or sore throat. To distinguish it from influenza (the “flu”), which is usually caused by the same thing – a virus – but leads to more severe symptoms. These include body aches, joint aches, headaches, loss of appetite, fevers, nightmares (usually due to the high temperatures), low energy, and upper respiratory symptoms (runny nose etc) but you can also have bowel symptoms (tummy aches, diarrhea) as the lymph glands around the bowel can become inflamed.

Prevention is definitely one of those “health conditions” that is best prevented with a few strategies. The greatest impact on health has not been due to major medical break-throughs like penicillin and vaccines. In fact the biggest improvement in mortality and life has been due to things that I call “healthy hygiene habits”, such as hand washing. Healthy hygiene habits are things that you do, that don’t necessarily give you “big bang for buck” at the time. For example, you may not feel any improvement by doing them. But it is the absence of doing them that leave you wide open for disease and in this case, the cold or flu. Healthy Hygiene Habits for avoiding the cold and flu:
1. Wash your hands routinely after going to the toilet, after blowing your nose, after handling money
2. Use a sanitary wipe (organic and natural wipes are now available) to wipe virus and organisms from your hands before eating
3. Use wipes or preferable wash your hands after handling pets.
4. Have your own water bottle to drink from at sporting events, in schools, at work (i.e. don’t share drinking vessels – including straws, mugs, drink bottles)
5. Cover your mouth when you cough, or nose if you sneeze
6. Use disposable tissues not hankies
7. Dispose of tissues after a blow. Make sure you have lots of tissues on hand
8. Mouth hygiene is very important – brush and floss regularly. Organic, chemical free mouthwashes are very effective.
9. Take extra care when using public commodities e.g.: trains and buses, planes, public toilets and assume that others do not have the same healthy hygiene matters as you. Be prepared

Hot slow cooker chicken

Ingredients (use organic, hormones free and fresh where possible):

1/2 knob of turmeric chopped

1/2 bunch of corriander chopped

1/2 bunch parsley chopped

1 pinch of cayenne pepper

6 chicken drumsticks

1 jar of organic tomato sauce

2 organic capsicums chopped

1/2 bunch of chopped spinach

       

Method:

Place all the ingredients into a slow cooker. Turn on slow. Watch the meal take place over the day.

Within 30 mins of you wanting a delicious meal, add chopped spinach.

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New low GI adverts on telly

Well I must say i have ALWAYS had an issue with tv, sport or media personalities endorsing health products that they really are not trained in. The assumption (or conclusion) and subsequent action that the viewer unconsciously makes is based on trust of the endorsee not the FACT or CONTENT about the product.

Tonight I saw an ad on telly with Ian Thorpe, an amazing sporting talent, endorsing the NEW low GI sticker. The ad gets some things right, high carb foods do lead to rising blood sugars and then a plummet and eventual fat gain. What they DO NOT get right, is that they say eating low GI foods facilitates fat loss. Then they pan across milo, grapes, breads. GUYS so close, but so far from the truth.

Carbs (regardless of their GI) lead to a blood sugar increase. The only way to curtail the swing is to eat proteins at the same time. Low GI is useful but the real message is to food combine.

And really should we be taking advice from someone who is an exceptional athlete and NOT a nutritionist???

Super Power Balls

High in anti-oxidants and all the NEW super foods, these chocolate delights are insanely yummy! High omega 3, high protein high super foods!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup  Cacao powder (pure, organic super food, not Cadbury’s cocoa)

1/2 cup chia seeds (black or white)

1/2 cup macadamia

1/2 cup figs

1/2 cup almond meal

1/2 cup LSA

approx 1/2 tahini

1 TBS manuka honey

     

Blend it dry ingredients in a food process until a meal. Then add tahini and honey. Push the meal together into balls. You can use extra water or tahini if it doesn’t bind that well.

Store in the fridge! YUMMO