Blog Entries tagged 'weight loss'

Product review: Birdseye Create-a-meal – achievable easy and healthy meal for blokes?

admin@foodwatch.com.au — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:00:00 +0100

Guest review by dietitian Nicole Senior APD, AN, author of Belly Busting for Blokes

Two thirds of Australian men are overweight or obese and their big bellies are putting them at risk for chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and bowel cancer. One of t [...]

Book review:CSIRO & Baker IDI DIABETES Diet and Lifestyle Plan

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:00:00 +0100

More than 1.5 million Australians have diabetes. Given the rise in obesity and sedentary lifestyles, more than twice this number will be at risk of developing diabetes in the next 25 years. So it’s timely that the nutrition team from the CSIRO Wellbeing books and Baker IDI H [...]

Product review: Dietlicious home-delivered diet meals

admin@foodwatch.com.au — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0100

Guest review by Airlie Lacy, student dietitian

Too tired to cook? Too busy to shop? Need to lose weight? Busy lifestyles often leave little time to shop, cook and eat the right meals for weight loss. Take-aways are quick and easy but they're no good for your waistline. Are home-delivered di [...]

Product review: SumoSalad – A healthy fast food lunch option?

admin@foodwatch.com.au — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:00:00 +0100

Guest review by dietitian Frances Gilham, APD, AN

SumoSalad claims to be the healthiest fast food franchise. It caters to people looking for nutrition as well as convenience and taste for lunch on the go. And Australians are obviously seeking out healthier options to burgers and pizza – [...]

Product review: Plain sweet wheatmeal biscuits side by side

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Looking for a plain healthy biscuit to have with your coffee or tea? Want one that's reasonably healthy, not cream-filled or choc-coated, but still a pleasant sweet mid-meal bite? Here I compare two of the top sellers Arnott's Shredded Wheatmeal and Paradise Highland Oatmeals They look he [...]

Book review: Mindless Eating

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:00:00 +0100

"Mindless Eating" is one of the best nutrition books I've read in the last four years. It was a real eye-opener for me - and I suspect for most of us - as it shows why you may not realize how much you're eating, what you're eating - or why you're even eating at all! It starts out by po [...]

Product review: Stevia sweeteners side by side

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:00:00 +0100

A "natural" sweetener, Stevia was approved for use in late in 2008 in Australia and the US and the first Stevia products are now appearing on the supermarket shelves.

It's not considered "artificial" and marketing for stevia makes much of it being 100% natural - which ap [...]

Product review: Three light milks compared

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0100

There are so many milks in the dairy case these days, it can be hard to work out which one suits you. And when you notice that they cost more than regular low-fat or home-brand milk, you start to think twice.

Here I review three of the more ‘unusual' added-value low-fat milks so you can see if one is worth paying the extra for y [...]

Product review: Aqua Pura Hint of Lemon

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Found a great new water drink. It's bottled water with a splash of lemon flavour. That's it. Nothing else - no sugar, no sweeteners, no calories, no colours, no additives. Just water with flavour. It takes a minute to adjust to the fact that it's colourless but once you do, you suddenly look at all those yellow [...]

My lemon with water experiment Day 6

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Me and my lemon again! The weather's got a little chilly last day or so so I've decided to sip my lemon with water as a warm drink. I was making it up with chilled water from the fridge but this got too cold for my stomach first thing in the morning.

To make the warm version, I simply boil the kettle, pour a cup of hot boiled water into a mug then leave it to cool for 10 minutes. THEN I add the lemon juice. Here's why. Vitamin C is heat sensitive so if I used the freshly-boiled [...]

My lemon with water experiment Day 5

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Going well on my new experiment. I definitely am less hungry in the morning after I have my lemon with water first thing. Doesn't seem to have any effect on my appetite during the afternoon or evening but that's exactly what I what have expected. It's a morning only thing.

The lemon with water delays the start of my morning hunger. If I wake up at a 1 or 2 on my 10-point Hunger scale, the lemon with water pushes me up to a 5 for about half an hour which gives me enough [...]

My lemon with water experiment Day 3 & 4

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Day 3 & 4 were both the same - I felt exactly the same on both so I've combined them. What I noticed on both these day is that the my glass of water with lemon really makes you feel hydrated first thing in the morning. Especially if you'd had a wine or two the night before and not drunk enough water before going to bed.

Also found that I like to sip another glass or two of the water with lemon during the day so I'm going through a lemon a day. Good for my vitamin C [...]

My lemon with water experiment Day 2

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Started my morning with a chilled glass of water with lemon juice as yesterday. Was a bit of an effort to get it all down again this morning but I did it. And I must say it does fill you up and stop you filling hungry.

Had my 8am early-start Pilates class this morning so just had the water with lemon and managed to get throug the class no problems. I find I can't eat anything much before Pilates as it sits in my stomach and then I can't do the exercises whi [...]

My lemon with water experiment

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:00:00 +0100

I've started my day with an old-fashioned diet inclusion - a glass of water with lemon. I squeezed out the juice of half an average lemon and mixed it with cold water - then down the hatch before anything else!

Lemon-and-water is advice I've seen around for years. It's often listed on diet plans supposedly as an early morning [...]

Bliss foods

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Bliss for the tastebuds, hell for the hips! Recent articles in The Australian, The Washington Post and other newspapers have been touting the existence of what they call "bliss foods". So what is a "bliss food" and what's all the fuss about?

What is a bliss food?

According to the former head of the US Food and Drug Administration and author of The End of Overeating, Dr David Kessler, there is an optimum blend of fat, sugar and salt that when present in [...]

Review: Light chocolate – can it help you shed weight?

saxelby@foodwatch.com.au — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Everyone loves to indulge in chocolate yet we all know it's a food that's laden with fat, sugar and kilojoules - and it's damn hard to stop at just one mouthful.

So it's hardly surprising that dieters have turned hopefully to light chocolate to provide pleasure without guilt. At first glance, it looks like the answer to a dieter's pray [...]