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 | Jun 5, 2013 | Body and Mind, Chemicals In Food, FNA, Medications/Vitamins
I absolutely loved this story when I read it, as it reminded me of my own father who started off as a pharmacist and din’t like what he was seeing and how people were relying so much on medication. He was determined to not let his family grow up using...
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...
by Cyndi | Sep 13, 2012 | FNA, Healthy Eating, Medications/Vitamins
As a young nutrition student I was taught that even though the vitamin or mineral is made in a laboratory, there is no difference between the vitamins and minerals found in food and the synthetic version made in a chemical laboratory. This statement never ever sat...
by Cyndi O'Meara | Aug 8, 2012 | FNA, Medications/Vitamins
Supplement sales in Australia are a multi-million dollar industry, growing at a fast rate. And that’s a good thing – right? Well let’s really look into this and see if it is good for the health of the nation. 95% of the supplements on the shelves are...
by Cyndi O'Meara | May 9, 2012 | FNA, Healthy Eating, Medications/Vitamins
I have always been about real foods. Even supplements need to be made from real food, so fish oil came under the category as a supplement that comes from a food source. As always I assumed ethics in the industry, but as the industry has grown the ethics for this...
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