by Monique | Feb 7, 2017 | Healthy Recipes, Salads
In my recent blog post (What’s “Bugging” You?) I wrote about the benefits of eating foods that are high in Resistant Starch (RS). RS is a type of starch that resists digestion and travels down our digestive tract intact until it reaches the colon...
by Monique | Feb 7, 2017 | Miscellaneous
What You Need To Know About Optimising Your Gut Microbiome. It is not exactly a secret anymore that we harbour, in and on our bodies, a veritable ecosystem of microbes. We host about 100 trillion (!) of different micro organisms in our digestive tract that literally...
by Monique | Jan 24, 2017 | Digestive issues, Gut Microbiome, Health Issues
I can get completely swept away by the mention of a health condition. If I am at a dinner or a party and someone, somewhere starts talking health issues, my ears perk up and I am on full alert. Crazy, I know, but I guess this is what happens when you are passionate...
by Monique | Jan 8, 2017 | Breakfast, Healthy Recipes
Inspired by a recent post by Andrea Nakayama about creating breakfast “hash” I have been engaged in a creative pursuit to make beautiful breakfast bowls. I have to admit that this recent obsession was also somewhat motivated by indulgences during the...
by Monique | Jan 8, 2017 | Miscellaneous
Happy New Year! I hope 2017 has started off well for you. Whether you are into New Year intentions or not, I think we can all agree on one thing: this world needs healthy, happy people more than ever. We can’t change what happened or people around us but we can...
