What are the benefits of wheat free diet? Are the results worth more than the effort of change ?
You may be thinking a transition to being gluten free will be tricky. Will you be deprived of your favourite foods? Is gluten free cooking cooking complicated? Will your family like gluten free recipes?

Perhaps a practitioner has suggested the change. Or it maybe you have a ‘gut instinct’ about wheat connecting with the painful symptoms you experience. It can be overwhelming to discover you or a family member have an intolerance to gluten or wheat products.

Going wheat or gluten free can tremendously enhance your quality of life. Countless people suffer needlessly from the consequences of gluten intolerance, enduring a variety of uncomfortable symptoms. Relief may come easily through altered food habits – and you won’t know until you try. Alex, one of my clients remarked that her lifelong problems ...   more »

What are meal replacement diets? They are a relatively new way of losing weight, and they involve substituting the meals you already eat with prepackaged food.

The replacement meals are carefully designed to be portion controlled, low-fat, low-calorie and nutritionally balanced. They are easy to use, since you don't need to count calories, or worry about what foods to eat – this is all done for you. Usually, the replacement meals provide about 800 to 1000 calories a day.

When you go on a meal replacement diet, the meals you use will come in a packet which you then prepare, and can be soups, stews, chili, food bars, puddings and shakes.

The idea of a meal replacement diet is that you are forced into a 'calorie deficit' – your body burns its fat for the energy you need, and you get thinner. Your muscle mass stays the same.

The replacement ...   more »