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Strategies for surviving the holiday season with minimal damage
Image: Filomena Scalise / FreeDigitalPhotos.net With the holiday season almost here it makes sense for us mesomorphs and endomorphs to start thinking about how to get to the 2nd of January with...
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The Twinkie Diet
The new diet everybody is talking about is the Twinkie Diet. Forget about Atkins, The Zone, ketogenic diets, Paleo diets and the like. This one seems to really work… Not! For those of you unfamiliar...
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The food dilemma
What to eat? Being a Peruvian food blogger, cook (who thankfully isn’t working at kitchens at the moment), FFG (former fat girl), Buddhist, gastritis + knee pain sufferer, and nutrition/fitness...
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Getting older, wiser and stronger
Warning: this post will get boring. Move on before it’s too late. My birthday is next week. I know women are supposed to avoid saying personal numbers (age, weight, etc) or worse, lie about them but I...
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Product review: Paleo Snacks
To snack or not to snack? I’ve been a regular snacker for about 7 years. Meaning: I’ve been having small meals twice a day most days in between the “big meals” (breakfast, lunch, dinner). There’s...
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Raw sauerkraut
Fermented cabbage. Sounds gross until you try it, for example on a German sausage roll. Fermented foods are generally good for you, they contain a variety of bacteria that your gut needs to do its job...
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What Should We Eat? seminar
When I first heard there was an American guy who had a podcast called Livin’ La Vida Low Carb I thought I would never ever listen to it. Not because I thought low carb wasn’t a valid approach, but...
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Intermittent fasting (IF)
Earlier this week two of my friends mentioned an article on intermittent fasting published by a local newspaper. Apparently mainstream media had just heard the news. Intermittent fasting (IF) is not a...
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Let food be thy medicine, or saved by Paleo cake
Since I became interested in nutrition, I knew Hippocrates was right but I didn’t get the experiential part of it in a really dramatic way until last Sunday. I’d be having jaw pain when chewing for a...
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Cod liver
I eat funky stuff. I’m Peruvian, so it’s normal for me to eat guinea pig, heart and tripe (although I no longer like the latter). I also grew up eating liver and I love it. Liver is one of the true...
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Review: Fishmongers (Bondi)
I had been craving fish and chips for a while and figured out that my birthday would be the perfect excuse to hunt for a good gluten-free friendly option. My online search results included Fishmongers...
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My experiment with the Bulletproof® protein fasting
A while ago I listened to a lecture by Dave Asprey in the Living La Vida Low Carb podcast. While I don’t agree with everything Asprey says, when he mentioned his protein fasting protocol I remembered...
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Food for thought: Dry July is over… what’s next?
Image from http://au.dryjuly.com/ So… this is it. July is over, Dry July is over (although you can still donate until August 31st here). I didn’t help raise that much money to support the battle...
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Nutritional genomics
Last week I attended a seminar on nutritional genomics organised by the Nutrition Society of Australia. Presenters were Prof. Michael Fenech from CSIRO, Dr Jennifer Cropley from Victor Chang, Cardiac...
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Ketosis and athletic performance
The Sydney Morning Herald published an article on this topic last week (you can find it here). In it they describe how endurance athlete Tim Reed adopted a mostly ketogenic diet and the impact it has...
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The Art and Science of Low Carb Living
Here are my notes of the seminar, which took place on September 1st 2014 at Sydney Uni. Due to complaints about the university organising such an *outrageous* event, the MC, Dr Kieron Rooney had to...
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Food for thought: Once a fatty, always a fatty?
That was the question asked to Robb Wolf in the Paleo Solution Podcast stuck to my brain when I heard it on episode 158 and since then I’ve learned a few things about biochemistry and metabolism. For...
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Food for thought: Karmic inflammation
I just came back from a hill sprint session in Sydney Park. After 108 repetitions of a physical meditation that involves the whole body (knees included). After 2 days in a row of training, including...
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The porridge experiment (part 2)
Here’s an update on my breakfast experiment. As you may recall from part 1, the Chinese doctor asked me to eat porridge with black sesame, walnuts and goji berries for breakfast in order to boost my...
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The porridge experiment (part 3)
This is part 3 of 3. Yes, the porridge experiment is (mostly) over. I did the rice thing for a few more days and then decided to “hipsterise” my breakfast. Even though I dislike chia seeds (’cause they...
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