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On Christmas Eve my father and I are doing the Gold Coast Christmas lights bus tour. Every year hundreds of households and businesses compete for thousands of dollars worth of prize money for the [...]

The world is drowning in information on health, nutrition and exercise. From liver cleansing to lentils, leotards to lycra, low cal to lavage and portion size to paleo, new weight loss trends are [...]

Ebor is a small town in northern NSW with a population of 166 people. It has one café, one hotel and one waterfall. I stopped there for lunch during my 5 hour drive home from Armidale where I had [...]

Does the title of this HEB sound like science fiction? Then read on. If there’s one thing all nutrition experts agree on, it’s that we need to eat more plant food – especially cruciferous [...]

Following my recent Health-e-Byte, many people have asked how they can best help their children and grandchildren avoid comfort eating. Here are some practical suggestions. Make mealtimes as [...]

If there was a method you could apply quickly and easily to shed excess body fat without dieting, deprivation, denial or discipline, would you be interested in giving it a go? If you could learn [...]

Did you experience stress or arguments at the dinner table when you were growing up? Did your parents offer you favourite foods when you were hurt or upset? These are two major factors [...]

A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience in May 2018 found that differences in size and structure of specific regions of the brain’s prefrontal cortex predicted a person’s ability to [...]

Whenever I feel disappointed or encounter a painful or difficult situation, I play the Game of Gripes to Gifts. I ask myself: Even though I’m not feeling positive about this, what could be the [...]

Recall a time when you succeeded at something or overcame a challenge against the odds. A time when you excelled at something or won a victory you didn’t expect to win. It could be mastering a [...]