The recent screening by SBS of “Did Cooking Make Us Human?” during my week of post-fast raw food has given cause for consideration of cooking, and meat. Coming off a fast, raw food is recommended. Eat raw, very little, one new fruit or vegetable at a time, no protein until the 7th day. It has […]

Do we really need to eat so much food? Who says? For most of us, eating is about the relentless search for satisfaction – nutrition happens to be a convenient side-effect. Desire for food is more fundamental than desire for sex. We engage with food three or more times a day, by adulthood most of […]

True to her name the dark mistress of denial has started fasting this week. Yes – taking a genuine break from food. No food for a full 7 days. The program is supervised of course, and with a few herbs to help along the way… but what a great teacher is fasting. For a start […]

In an attempt to find sunshine, holistic fitness, natural weight-loss and stress relief the Dark Mistress found herself waking up in Thailand today. Leaving the iPhone was hard, leaving the laptop impossible, the only hope for this hopelessly addicted screenager, is that the Bamboo Huts of Ko Samui don’t have broadband… Why Thailand…? An irony […]

Did you know that a study called ‘The A to Z weight loss study’ was done comparing the low carbohydrate Atkins diet, the low-carb Zone diet, the low-fat, high-carb LEARN diet and the very high-carb Ornish diet.

Evidence suggests that an apple a day has unexpected health benefits.

The Dark Mistress took a short holiday from Blogging and spent her time … well … reading other Blogs. Once you get over all the crap gobbledygook product blogs served on pages one and two of Google’s Blog Search there are some great souls out there in the Blogosphere. Life Blogs are like movies without […]

Did you see the Today Tonight report on alternative medicines last night? Very exciting, albeit rather badly reported, stuff! This is all especially confusing for consumers when it comes in the same year that many medical schools started adding a swag of proven complimentary medicines to their teaching agenda. It got me to thinking – […]

Having lunch in front of your computer might make you gain weight.

WellBeing TV’s, Terry Robson and Sherry Strong discuss whether writing can be linked to weight loss.

WalkScore.com The website much loved by Real Estate Agents that cleverly uses Google Maps to analyse neighbourhoods and rate them according to walkers needs. The Dark Mistress loves data, but do we need a website to tell us what we can find out by … gasp… actually walking? Walkscore will tell you what Google knows […]

As a “healthcare consumer” the Dark Mistress has always found an integrative approach to be the way to go – go to the Doctor for diagnosis, and the allied health practitioner to find out what to do about it. Doctors are great at telling you what you need to do, and bad at providing lifestyle […]