The Real Food Pyramid

09/11/2025

Great advice from Dr Vonda Wright.

08/11/2025

Are you craving lasagna but not the heavy carbohydrate load? Check out this awesome carnivore lasagna from Keto Adapted - Maria Emmerich for your meal prep Sunday.

07/11/2025

Can’t remind everyone enough- muscle is the key to longevity. If you want to be independent and healthy as you age you need strong muscles. Great work by Dr. Gabrielle Lyon.

06/11/2025

Keeping it simple makes it easier to follow. Great advice from Mark Hyman, MD.

Be “boring” with your health. Then repeat what works.

Nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management, and connection form the foundation of your biology. They are not optional; they are the inputs your body uses to regulate every system that keeps you alive and thriving.

When these pillars are strong, health stops being something you chase—it becomes something you sustain. You have the energy to create, connect, and live fully.

Start with your foundation. Because when you master the basics, everything else begins to change.

05/11/2025

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2d1WEp1HeKLmjpiCfZ4MRU?si=7BD1j4sYR--p7WX0DKrmQA

Listen to this podcast this week. If you’ve ever had foot issues, this one is for you. The switch to a minimalist shoe is a process but your stronger feet will be your future asset.

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04/11/2025

Get to know the F.A.C.E acronym and put it in to practice this month. Great explanation from Whole Food Revolution.

Welcome to November — National Muscle Month!

This month, we’re celebrating our bodies in the most empowering way possible — by learning to F.A.C.E. Ageing together.

Ageing is something every one of us experiences from the moment we’re born. It’s completely natural.
But here’s the truth that no one tells us enough:

👉 The symptoms of ageing — stiffness, weakness, fatigue, and loss of balance — are not inevitable.

With the right kind of movement, we can protect our muscles, our mobility, our confidence, and even our appearance.

That’s what this month’s challenge is all about — learning to F.A.C.E. ageing with strength, grace, and vitality.

💪 F.A.C.E. stands for:
F – Flexibility: Keep your joints supple and your body moving with ease.
A – Aerobic activity: Boost your energy, heart health, and mood.
C – Carrying load: Build strength for everyday life — lifting groceries, kids, and your own dreams!
E – Equilibrium (and foot speed): Improve your balance, coordination, and confidence.

Here’s how it works:
Each day this month, move for just 5 minutes — focusing on one part of the F.A.C.E. formula each week.
You don’t need a gym. You don’t need fancy equipment.
You just need you — right where you are.

Start where you are.
Use what you have.
Do what you can.

This isn’t about perfection — it’s about progress. It’s about choosing to age actively, not passively.

So let’s do it together. Let’s remind our muscles, bones, hearts, and minds that we are capable, adaptable, and strong at every age.

Drop a 💪 or “I’m in!” below if you’re ready to F.A.C.E. Ageing with us this November!

03/11/2025

Great explanation of ketones from Dr Anthony Chaffee.

Ketones are your bodies main energy source. When your body has both ketones and glucose available, nearly every tissue in your body will use ketones instead of glucose, until and unless you run out of ketones in which case they will supplement with glucose. There are some cells such as red blood cells that still use glucose, and specifically for RBCs this is because they don't have mitochondria and cannot utilize ketones. That's also seen in cancers, because all known cancers have dysfunctional mitochondria and so they cannot run on ketones, they require glucose. In fact cancer cells require 400 times the amount of glucose the normal cells do, which is why restricting glucose in your diet, and therefore to the cancer cells, is a really good idea.

When you have ketones available, your brain, heart, intestines, and even your muscles will primarily use ketones. Most of your tissues will in fact. There are thousands of randomized control trials showing massive improvements to health and metabolic disease from ketogenic diets and neurological issues, in no small part to the beneficial effects of ketones in the body and brain.

when women are pregnant especially in the third trimester it is much easier for them to go into ketosis, and ketones are known to freely cross the placenta into the baby and fuel development. When babies are breastfeeding, even though milk contains lactose, they still generate ketones and are therefore in ketosis. This is because the brain and body optimally run on ketones and while the brain is rapidly growing it is very important to have enough ketones. Ketones also reconstitute into fatty acids inside the brain and can be used as the physical structures for brain development as well as energy. When infants are formula fed, Studies have shown they have significantly less ketones, or may not make ketones at all, likely due to the high sugar and seed oil content.

Ketones are also better fuel for your mitochondria, requiring 1/4 of the nad+ to make the same amount of ATP as glucose metabolism. It has also been shown to be protective against the negative effects of concussion, and ketogenic diets have been shown to improve recovery from TBIs

02/11/2025

Another perfect example of how headlines are used to mislead the public and push an agenda. Thanks to Defeat Diabetes for setting everyone straight.

01/11/2025

Something different for my meal prep Sunday post today. I want to share with you my go to week night meals. Choose any type of mince, add a mingle meal base satchel and half a jar of passata and you have some delicious protein. Pair with steam veg and you are set. Ready in about 20mins. Give it a try.

31/10/2025

Even though this post from Nina Teicholz speaks about America, Australia is in a very similar circumstance. Much of our population is suffering from chronic diseases. The dietary guidelines are for healthy people which does not include those with chronic diseases. Therapeutic carbohydrate restriction is proven to support the remission of many chronic diseases. It should be noted as an option for people to follow.

The Guidelines are required by law to include an option for the "general public." That public now has one or more chronic diseases—60%-93%, according to various estimates)

Yet the Guidelines have long excluded a low-carbohydrate option despite the fast-growing science showing that this nutritional approach is the most effective for reversing type 2 diabetes, hypertension, inflammation, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and other conditions.

We need to speak up for a low-carb option in the upcoming Dietary Guidelines.

Share this post or make your own about how you've reversed your disease with low-carb.

👉 Go to LowCarbMAHA.org to download the campaign toolkit and join us in sharing a message of reform.

30/10/2025

Great advice from Keto Adapted - Maria Emmerich as always.

29/10/2025

This is exactly the concept behind the real food pyramid. There are very few people who burn enough energy to get away with eating that many portions of bread, pasta and cereal. Stick with real whole single ingredient foods for the most part and you will be able to get the best results.

South Park had it right.