Nutrition Lab

We often associate 'stress' as the feeling of being under too much mental, physical or emotional strain. And the festive season is the perfect example of how we can put ourselves under undue physical and emotional stress in order to have the 'perfect' Christmas. We are running and racing tryin...

Calcium-Magnesium: These two minerals are somewhat like the opposite ends of a dimmer switch. Calcium is responsible for giving bones their strength as well as exciting the nervous system, contracting muscles, and contributing to the inflammation necessary to fight invaders or injury. On the o...

Fussy Eater? Fussy eaters, whether they’re kids or grown ups can have difficulties meeting their nutritional requirements because of the limited foods they will eat. The Nuzest solution: incorporate the extra nutrients into your recipes! Whether you’re sneaking it in so the kids will never kn...

Seasonal Change  Seasonal change can affect everyone differently. General rule of thumb tend to be that there are a few stuffy noses, lower energy and weight gain. These are usually a result of all the Halloween candy and the lead up to the best time of year, Christmas! Thankfully there are many...

The Salad Days of Summer That old saying about always eating your greens wasn’t a bunch of bananas. That bit of homespun wisdom was all fact. There’s nothing but truth in a salad. Its nature’s most honest meal — and one of its most nutritious, too. Consider salads to be a bowl of raw material to...

Nourishing Your Children during the School Year

Follow these Top Tips to get this school year down to a clever start! 

  Breakfast Is the most important meal of the day! A good night's sleep followed by food in the morning helps children to stay active...

As a recognized emotional eater myself for many years I must live a daily routine to control filling the void being mindful rather than mindless with food including exercise, meditation and eating 3 small meals and 2 snacks a day, breakfast being the most important to set my day up. Here’s some m...

Eating healthy while on the road, in a hotel, or at the airport is a challenge because of limited options at food courts and restaurants. But with some special planning food shopping at your local independent health food store and packing, eating healthy on the road can be done! Try to follow the...

Electrolytes are minerals that are in your blood, urine, tissues, and other body fluids. Electrolytes are important because they may help: Balance the amount of water in your body Balance your body's acid/base (pH) level Move nutrients into your cells Reduce incidences of water rete...

1. Don’t Diet On a diet when you are losing weight quickly you can be losing muscle and water not fat and then when you stop the diet the weight goes back on as fat. So the next diet has to be stricter. This is when you end up yo-yo dieting.  Research shows that when you diet your body undergoes...

What is Detoxification? Detoxification is a natural process within the body. It’s a complicated process involving nearly all of the bodily functions. If the body encounters a toxin, it will either be temporarily stored, or turned into another set of chemicals before being excreted. This process ...

The gut is the center of our bodies. Now we’re also starting to think that it might be at the center of our health too. There are increasing numbers of people visiting their doctors to complain about digestive problems. These can be constipation, diarrhea, bloating, cramping and Irritable Bowel ...

And It’s Many Benefits Bone broth has made somewhat of a revival of late, and you may be wondering what all the hype is about. We’re all familiar with the concept that chicken soup was once deemed the best cure for any ailing cold or flu. The reason being? Well we weren’t sure, we just did what ...

A healthy lunchbox a day keeps the yawns away! It may come as little surprise to learn that according to recent research in Ireland that the most popular items in a lunchbox are a sliced white bread sandwich with a filling of ham, cheese or chicken; crisps, a chocolate bar or biscuit; and a yogh...

Hungarian scientist Hans Selye once said, “It is not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it”, and he could not have been more correct. Stress is not necessarily a bad thing, it is our body’s natural response to ensuring survival. From the beginning of time stress is what has kept us aliv...