25 healthy snack ideas for kids

Kids will love these delicious, healthy and easy to prepare snacks!   • Rice cakes lightly spread with ricotta or "light" cream cheese and vegemite or fruit spread.  • Toasted muffin with a scrape of honey or fruit spread.  • Slice of toasted wholegrain bread topped with ricotta cheese and fruit spread.  • Microwaved pappadums.  • Crispbreads with a low fat topping or plain biscuits.  • Wholewheat...

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How to give snacks a nutrition boost in 7 days

A week's worth of healthy snacking made easy   Monday Blend a refreshing morning smoothie. A creamy, vitamin-rich drink can be made in minutes by blending frozen berries or a banana with three-quarters of a cup of organic, rice or almond milk and a splash of vanilla extract. For a tropical twist, add a quarter cup of coconut milk. >>4 green smoothier recipes to try Tuesday Check out the supermarket’s...

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10 Primal Superfoods to Help You Perform 10 Times Better

Cage-free, organic eggs are filled with vitamins and minerals, including biotin and choline. Protein plays a big part in the Paleo athlete’s life. Whether you need to pre-fuel with protein and fat or you need to recover with protein and dense carbohydrates, cage-free, organic eggs are your friend. Eggs are a quick protein source that you can have on the ready whenever you need them. Biotin turns what you eat into energy, while choline...

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Get back to the basics of nutrition

You don't need a degree to understand nutrition. It's simple if you just keep these basics in mind. A seemingly never-ending supply of diet and weight-loss information can trick you into thinking food and nutrition is a complex science that requires a university degree to understand. The truth is that despite a growing number of complicated food descriptions, the basics of health and nutrition are, in fact, rather basic.  When clients...

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Top 10 Fitness Tips

Damien Kelly shows how to master the exercise basics and get your fitness on track for the year ahead.   Not sure what you need to do to take your fitness to the next level in 2012? Here are the most important things to work on. 1. Train for a fun run When it comes to body-shape change, strength training and high-intensity cardio are the indisputable winners. However, for some people, hitting the pavement burns the fat like nothing...

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