Hi! I'm Jenna.
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POPULAR ARTICLES
They say sitting is the new smoking. But in my view it is much worse. Why? Because it is sooooooo ubiquitous. Pretty much every aspect of our lives is centred around sitting: our work, our travel, our leisure. Our society is structured in such a way that we need to make a special effort to reduce the amount we sit. And it's imperative for our health that we do!
The amount of energy/calories you regularly consume versus the amount you regularly expend is definitely something I think we should all keep a non-obsessive eye on, especially if you find your weight creeping up (or down) over time. But if you focus only on the calorie content of the foods you eat, you are short-changing your health! Not all calories are created equally. So here are a few other things I recommend my clients focus on when making their daily food choices.
This final instalment in my three part series on SLEEP sets out my bumper list of evidence-based tips and tweaks to help you improve your sleep!
This is a BIG QUESTION, but the evidence is accumulating and it looks like the answer is YES!
Hangry happens when you push your body past both of these stages and to a point where your mood, behaviour and perhaps even your performance is compromised. While we know all to well what it feels like to be hangry, science has only recently put it under the spotlight. Read more here, plus my top “hanger-management” tips!
So many people think they have to make huge life-altering changes their diet to improve their health and lose weight. And sadly, the prospect of such big changes cause many people to give up before they even start. I want to shout from the rooftops: getting healthier, having more energy and maintaining a healthy weight should not require disruptive, unpleasant changes to your life!! You just need to make small, sustainable tweaks. And embed them until they become a permanent habit. And then make a few more simple tweaks. You get the picture! So here are a few simple, relatively painless, tweaks you can make to your diet today which will yield high positive benefits over time!
Here is a fantastic rule of thumb for you to follow when choosing breads, crackers and other baked goods!
Peer reviewed studies abound which show that increasing your fruit and veg intake can reduce your risk of obesity, many cancers, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, stroke, heart attack and even depression and dementia! So I'm on a mission to get everyone eating more veggies! Here are my top tips!
Overnutrition may be a term you haven't heard yet. It’s a concept that hasn’t yet hit the blogosphere, but it's everywhere in the peer reviewed scientific literature and you NEED to know about this!
Have you heard of the Okinawan word "ikigai"? It roughly translates into having a reason to live, or believing that your life is worth living...
POPULAR RECIPES
If you have never made your own labneh before, I hope this post is just the push you need to try it.
Have you tried Massaged Kale Salad? If not, you're in for a treat! I love to make a HUGE batch of this as it's an excellent two-for-one deal. I serve it as a warm salad for dinner, and then I toss all of the leftovers together to take to work for lunch the next day
This cake is gluten free and has a lot less sugar than traditional cakes. The lemon drizzle makes it delightfully tangy. I love to serve it warm.
This is Summer Barbecue food at its finest! The Tangy Mint and Pistachio Pesto makes this dish sing! It's so delicious you will be standing over the food processor eating it by the spoonful!
I call this dish my "garlic delivery system" and we eat it a LOT during cold and flu season!
It features raw garlic, which would burn your mouth if it wasn't tempered by the potato.
The combination of the lemon and raw garlic just works.
I learned this traditional Lebanese dish from my neighbour. The sauce is absolutely addictive!
