Personalised medicine – what type of fruit and how much?
Integrative Lifestyle Medicine
NP Jille Burns journey to integrative lifestyle medicine
Nutrition can be simple yet powerful
Healthy Vitality love learning from other clinicians and meeting colleagues. We recently attended an inspiring conference in Melbourne April 2018 with many international speakers highlighting factors that improve quality of life. One of the speakers was Dr Terry Wahls discussed her remission from Multiple Sclerosis by changing her food and adding certain supplements. However she […]
Life changing bread – missing toast? Here is an alternative.
This fantastic recipe for an alternative to bread is from the My New Roots website – highly recommend this website for innovative recipe ideas. The Life-Changing Loaf of Bread Makes 1 loaf Ingredients: 1 cup / 135g sunflower seeds ½ cup / 90g flax seeds ½ cup / 65g hazelnuts or almonds 1 ½ cups / 145g […]
Lifestyle for heart health – take action today.
Lifestyle. There is no getting around this simple fact – your health is directly related to how you live your life. However, drugs are forever in the forefront of the press as a “quick fix”. Yesterday’s headline from The Age newspaper “New wonder drug hailed as biggest breakthrough in fight against heart attacks and cancer”. The […]
3 simple tips for reducing high blood pressure
A 33 year old chap popped into my clinic on Friday, sweaty from running from the train, asking for a quick blood pressure check. His General Practitioner had told him his blood pressure was a bit high and he should get it checked a couple more times and then return for review – with the […]
Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Coeliac Susceptible Genotype
Real stories. Real people. Identifying details changed. Elaine is a 46 year old mother of two primary school aged children. Elaine works fulltime and spends a lot of time driving her children to and from after school activities. Elaine worked for a food company that provided food plans and meals for weight loss. It was […]
The vegetarian & iron deficiency
Choosing to be vegetarian and preventing iron deficiency requires considered food choices. A concerted effort to plan adequate intake on a daily basis is rewarded with an improvement in iron storage. Iron supplementation or iron infusions can be avoided with correct food choices. So how does a vegetarian maintain adequate iron in the diet? Iron is found in all […]
Seed crackers
Seed crackers are an amazing source of nutrients with hummus or basil pesto dip, or alone. I make a batch every week – variations depending on the seeds I have on hand. This recipe has been adapted from a Norwegian rye cracker recipe and has been heartily endorsed by a marathon runner! Useful for teachers […]
Too busy to exercise? One last tip.
As routine as brushing your teeth – why do we let other distractions get in the way? We know we feel better when we exercise. We know there are many tips and tricks to make it happen – exercise with friends, arrange a personal trainer, join a physical fundraising activity. Disease states improve with exercise. […]
