by Cyndi O'Meara | Feb 9, 2022 | Allergies/Food Sensitivities, Auto-immune Diseases, Chemicals In Food, Diets, Education, Food Labelling, Functional Nutrition Consultant, Gut Health, Health, Health Foods, Healthy Eating, Hormonal Issues, Medications/Vitamins
Synthetic biology, bioengineering, biodesign and biotechnology are just some of the names that are being used to describe the production of a relatively new wave of ingredients in our food supply. This science behind synthetic biology is not new. Insulin the...
by Cyndi O'Meara | Nov 23, 2021 | Chemicals In Food, Diets, Food Labelling, Health, Health Foods, Healthy Eating
When I was at the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine conference in Brisbane, I decided to head to the forum of dietitians where nutritionist Rosemary Stanton was the main speaker. Rosemary is a good speaker and I liked what she had to say. She blamed the Heart...
by Cyndi O'Meara | Mar 10, 2021 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Health, Uncategorized
Does the World Need so Many Sugars? A recent monthly webinar with my students and graduates of The Nutrition Academy, was all about sugar. We covered lots of interesting information, so I thought I’d share it here. Natural Sugars From History There are many...
by Cyndi | Nov 3, 2015 | Diets, Education, FNA, Food Labelling, Medications/Vitamins
I’m often asked about vitamin supplements and whether I advise people to take them or not – but it’s always important to know exactly what is in these supplements. I take a look at two popular supplements here – Centrum and Berocca. Centrum Centrum is a multi-vitamin...
by Cyndi O'Meara | Oct 9, 2013 | Chemicals In Food, FNA, Food Labelling, Healthy Eating
1. Eat foods that have no additives, preservatives, flavourings or numbers. 2. Read the ingredients on your labels of everything – e.g. milk may have MPC or calcium carbonate. 3 Avoid eating boxed breakfast cereals (no exceptions). 4. Hydrogenated,...
by Cyndi | Oct 10, 2012 | Chemicals In Food, FNA, Food Labelling, Medications/Vitamins
As you know I am not a fan of breakfast cereals. They are the most profitable food on the supermarket shelf, they have false health claims that would curl your toes and their marketing and advertising is full of extravagant claims. The food is barely a food, it...
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