Fiona Ward Gregory - Wisdom4Wellness

14/09/2022

Home made apple cider vinegar. Video coming soon.

28/08/2022

Home made and bottled passata is soooooooo much tastier than bought.

28/04/2020

Nature leaves clues. My Nana told me when I first got married that to be healthy we must eat the rainbow each day. Red, yellow, green, purple and white.

Today, a smoothie of spinach, green apple, kiwi and ginger.

Dinner was purple cabbage in broth, orange sweet potato mash and liver with bacon, onion and gravy. Oh and a piece of 80% dark chocolate for desert. Yum!

27/02/2020

We need a healthy fat intake for our brain and hormone health among other things. Eating fat doesn’t affect the amount of cholesterol your body makes as much as once thought. Blaming fat for what carbs did!

Following a two-day, DC-based workshop entitled “Saturated Fats: A Food or Nutrient Approach?” a group of leading nutrition scientists, mainly from the U.S., released a consensus statement detailing their findings on the latest research regarding the intake of saturated-fats and heart disease.

23/02/2020

Don’t be fooled by the washed and ready to eat bagged produce, it’s much higher in bacteria than the unwashed.

BUT! I’m more concerned at his comment that you don’t need to wash store bought produce like grapes, tomatoes and apples. It’s not just about bacteria, we cope with them a lot better than we do the chemical sprays on their skins.

If you can’t buy organic definitely wash you’re fruit and veg in a mild vinegar solution on warm water to remove as much as possible of both bacteria and chemical sprays. YUK!

18/02/2020

Annual skin check done and dusted. Nothing to see here.

So genetically I would expect to be lining up for zapping, freezing, excising etc based on the history of my parents, siblings and adult kids. But nothing!

Refreshing that my doctor who is a skin cancer specialist agrees with my strategy. In fact she said that at approaching 60 my skin is in better order than hers at approaching 50.

Here are my tips:
I never ever use chemical sunscreen. Shirts, hats and shade for me if I feel my skin burning.
20 minutes sun exposure 3 times per week is protective.
Eat a diet rich in antioxidants, colourful vegetables and fruit, purple veg, red capsicum, broccoli, kale etc
30mg melatonin supplement at night
2000mg Vit C daily
Rosehip oil to moisturise05% retinol cream to moisturise - I add powdered melatonin to this, it’s a master antioxidant
H**p Collagen powder in smoothies
Gelatine and bone broth for natural collagen
Astaxanthin, resveritrol and sulphurofane
Intermittent fasting

There are heaps of other anti-ageing supplements you could add, hit me up for some more suggestions.

27/01/2020

Can smoothes still play a role in a Ketogenic diet? You bet they can, we still need the polyphenols in colourful fruits and veggies for their anti oxidant properties and also the fibres for our gut health. Plus they can be a great way to make sure we meet our protein targets.

We just need to find low carb options, this one uses both plant and animal protein sources and a great prebiotic fibre. Gluten and dairy free.

The two areas of greatest struggle when balancing a Ketogenic diet protocol is sufficiently restricting carbohydrates and meeting protein targets. Quite often t

17/01/2020

Hec yeah! I caught up with clients today who I have been speaking with around regaining health and losing weight through a ketogenic diet and eliminating grains and processed foods.

8 months after our first conversation he has lost 48kg and she has lost 14kg- yep that’s an entire person! They have corrected high cholesterol, halved their statin doses and diabetes meds and are on a roll to lose another 50kg between them.

I love how corrected eating fixes so many health issues.

To say I’m thrilled for them is an understatement.

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