NutritionChic

The Green Drink – for healthy DNA

Cindy — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:36:14 +0000

Unhealthy eating can cause as much DNA damage as exposure to radiation. This is just one little gem of information I picked up from listening to Dr Michael Fenech, Research Group Leader in Genome Health and Nutrigenomics at CSIRO, speak at a seminar for dietitians last week. He described how a deficiency of folic acid [...]

Coconut Chia Dessert

Cindy — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:13:47 +0000

If you want a fun kitchen experiment for your kids, buy some chia seeds and stir a teaspoonful into half a cup of water. After a few minutes they will see the liquid turning to gel. These hard little black or white seeds have microscopic fibres on the outside which attract water causing a gel [...]

Searching for the healthiest peanut butter and a note to my Dad

Cindy — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 06:50:55 +0000

I had just popped into my local deli – The Gourmet Grocer in Balmain – when an enthusiastic man thrust a sample stick of golden gooey stuff at me. “Would you like to try my really good peanut butter?” he asked. The timing couldn’t have been better: peanut butter was top of my shopping list. [...]

Pistachio and Peppercorn Terrine

Cindy — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 08:08:27 +0000

It’s Boxing Day and I’m sitting on a picnic rug in the Botanic Gardens overlooking the beautiful Sydney Harbour. We’re here to catch a glimpse of the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race – one of the most dangerous yacht races in the world. Helicopters buzz overhead while a myriad of vessels laden [...]