by Jo Formosa | Jul 24, 2018 | Blog, Health Tips, Recipes
Serves 1-2 Ingredients: • ½ tablespoon ghee / safflower / rice bran • ¼ brown onion, finely chopped • ¼ small pumpkin cut into 2-3 cm cubes • 1¼ cups boiling water • Salt & pepper to taste • ¼ teaspoon fresh ginger, finely chopped • ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon • ¼...
by Jo Formosa | Jul 20, 2018 | Blog, Health Tips
If you’ve been feeling unusually tired, struggling with concentration, feeling dizzy, getting leg cramps, feeling low on energy or having trouble sleeping, you might have an iron deficiency or even be anaemic. When you’re low on iron, or anaemic, it can affect all...
by Jo Formosa | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Health Tips
Do you have a colleague that can be hot-headed and reactive, maybe even competitive; or an employee, or boss, that tends to become anxious or frustrated if things aren’t going to plan? Each of these corporate character traits are reflective of your individual dosha,...
by Jo Formosa | Jul 10, 2018 | Blog, Health Tips, Recipes
Serves 1 Ingredients: • 1/2 ripe Avocado • 2 slices of Gluten-free bread • Fresh lemon Juice to taste • Fresh cracked black pepper to taste Method: 1. Halve Avocado and remove seed. 2. Scoop out and roughly fork smash in a bowl. 3. Add lemon juice and black pepper to...
by Jo Formosa | Jul 6, 2018 | Blog, Health Tips
Dr Michael Mosely is renowned for making the 5:2 Diet, or Fast Diet, world famous, but he isn’t the one who came up with this style of eating – his ideas are based around intermittent fasting and Ayurvedic knowledge which dates back 5000 years. Mosley’s 5:2 diet...
by Jo Formosa | Jun 29, 2018 | Blog, Health Tips
Have you ever wondered why sometimes you arrive in a destination ready to sightsee or hit the boardroom, whereas others you suffer terrible jet lag and come down with a head cold the minute you step off the plane? The state you arrive in, is going to heavily depend on...
by Jo Formosa | Jun 26, 2018 | Blog, Recipes
Serves 1-2 Ingredients: • 2 eggs, whole • 200 mL water • 3 teaspoons of fresh chopped parsley • Freshly ground pepper • Lightly wilted spinach to serve Method: 1. Put 200 mL of water into a small saucepan. 2. Bring to the boil. 3. Crack an egg into a cup. 4. Using a...
by Jo Formosa | Jun 22, 2018 | Blog, Health Tips
Leading an inactive life and eating processed and sugary foods is not only going to put you on a collision course with diabetes, but there are also a whole suite of health issues that come with that diagnosis – eye problems, joint pains, impotency, kidney...
by Jo Formosa | Jun 15, 2018 | Blog, Health Tips
By Eloise Palms * For the last 12 years I’ve been unwell and for the last five years my situation has been chronic. I was suffering with thyroid issues, osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia – this meant I was in a lot of pain and tired all the time. Most days I would need...
by Jo Formosa | Jun 12, 2018 | Blog, Health Tips, Recipes
Ingredients: • 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil • 1/2 onion, finely diced • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped • 1 teaspoon finely chopped thyme • 1 bay leaf, fresh or dried • 1 carrot, finely diced • 1 stalk celery, finely diced • 1/2 cup raw hulled buckwheat (groats)...