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RRP: $44.95 (paperback) Most of us know his face as the co-host of popular cooking game show My Kitchen Rules, but did you know that Australian chef Pete Evans is dedicated to improving peoples’ lives through education about nutritional food and wellness? With an increasing amount of research pointing to gut health as a leading …
Book review: The Complete Gut Health Cookbook – Pete Evans Read More »
RRP: $33.95 Ever find yourself staring blankly at the equipment in your gym trying to figure out what to do with it? Books like this can provide some great inspiration and tips to help keep your workouts fresh and interesting. The blurb promises that this third edition of Strength Ball Training delivers more exercises, programmes, …
Book review: Strength ball training (3rd ed.) – Goldenberg & Twist Read More »
Whether you’re entertaining others on Christmas Day or just planning on cooking something special for your own household, getting into the kitchen to cook things you don’t normally make can be incredibly stressful! We typically spend the big day rushing around to different places for each main meal while trying to deliver homemade gift baskets; …
So Christmas is next Sunday. Hope you’re ready for it! I’m a Christmas-a-holic and therefore always completely over-organised which means all of my Christmas shopping is not only done, it’s also wrapped (with the exception of the baking gift baskets which I do in the last three days before the big day). Some has already …
As a personal trainer, the more clients I trained, the more I realised that focusing on just exercise and nutrition alone isn’t enough to achieve sustainable health and wellness in modern society – not just for my clients, but for myself as well. Yoga fills that gap, providing flexibility training, deep breathing development, stress relief, …
Diary of a yoga teacher in training: Finding balance in your life Read More »
Now that the weather has been on/off improving with spring in full swing, I’ve been getting out in the garden a lot more. During my pregnancy and throughout Miss E’s first year, the garden went downhill pretty quickly as it essentially became abandoned. But that didn’t stop me looking wistfully at it every time I …
Iconic New Zealand fitness and lifestyle apparel brand Canterbury have been around since 1904, starting with the production of woolen garments deep in the heart of Canterbury. Before long they were making durable uniforms for the army during the First World War, and this led to the All Blacks rugby team approaching them to produce …
I’d previously only heard of Epsom Salt in books, so I was aware that it was a traditional remedy for easing muscular aches and pains but have never actually had the opportunity to try it out. Prior to being pregnant I was fit, flexible and rarely experienced tiredness or muscle soreness, but fast-track a year …
New Zealand-based soundscape guitarist Arli Liberman has just released his new album Allegra and announced he’s joining the international Wanderlust circuit (which makes him kind of a big deal!), with shows coming up across the US, Europe, Canada and Australia, with additional performances scheduled in New York, Malibu and Colorado. Playing solo sets as well …
Since Miss E’s arrival last year, our clothing storage space has slowly become increasingly messy. Typically I’ll go through the shelves when it starts looking a little dodgy and refold everything perfectly, but babies significantly decrease your time to do luxurious things like that! One morning a few weeks ago, I started searching for a …
RRP: $39.99 Most of us would recognise Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz for her work on the big screen, but did you know she’s written a couple of well-received health books as well? As one of the most famous women in the world, Cameron has fielded journalist’s questions about ageing at almost every interview – especially …
Anyone who follows my blog regularly knows that I’m an everything-in-moderation kinda girl, but if you’re going to bake and eat biscuits you may as well do it for a good cause, right?! Monday 4 July (today!) is The Blind Foundation’s Red Puppy Bikkie Day and keen bakers are encouraged to ‘bake a difference’ for …