If you have been looking for ways to get healthy then you may have jumped on what I term the 'kale craze bandwagon' being peddled by a plethora of food coach’s of late, without the technical training to understand the flip side to their recommendations. Kale is known as a cruciferous vegetable, belonging to the Brassica family, also joined by cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower and bok choy. Now it’s a fact that the cruciferous family of vegetables are rich in vit

I recently took some much needed 'time out' to visit my favorite home away from home, Bali. It was my first trip back after spending a 6 month sabbatical there in 2011. Perhaps one of the things that resonates most with me, aside from Bali's laid back pace of life, is the organic and whole food movement that has really taken off since my maiden voyage 13 yrs ago. I feel like I am in whole food heaven when I'm in Bali and I swear I eat twice as much because the food is so che

If you have been feeling tired and run down lately then perhaps one of the reasons is because you are B12 deficient. B12 belongs to the group of B vitamins, essential for our neurological, immune, reproductive and thyroid function as well as energy production. Deficiency in B12 is very common and often misdiagnosed because the conventional blood test for B12 uses a range that does not assess for functional B12 deficiency. B-12 deficiency can take years to become clinically e