Registered Dietitian & Nutrition Researcher
Some of you may know by now that this is my FAVE research area. I love talking about appetite... and before I continue to talk about the different dietary, environmental & social factors that may affect satiety, hunger levels and food intake, I thought I’d quickly take it back to the basics first. Check out [...]
Free sugars are all sugars added to foods and drinks in any form whether added by you in homemade meals or by food manufacturers. Free sugars are present in foods such as puff puff, fried sweet dumplings, taho, cakes, biscuits, sweets, sweet spreads and sauces, as well as sugars-sweetened soft drinks and malted drinks like [...]
A healthy balanced diet will provides you with essential nutrients needed to help you build healthy bones & maintain them throughout your life. Because bone is a living tissue it continues to be renewed throughout life, with older cells being replaced by new ones. Bone mass increases throughout growth until our early 20s, when peak [...]
There has recently been a lot of focus on food, health and weight management. While it’s great that more people are becoming more aware of their health and finding ways to improve their nutritional intake. It’s important to remember that food is more than health and nutrition. Food is a versatile national, social and cultural [...]
