by Jo Formosa | Aug 18, 2017 | Blog, Health Tips, Recipes
If you could drink a simple, but effective detox tea that clears your body of fake fat, which is really toxins in your lymphatic system, and literally strips centimetres and kilos from your body, would you be interested? Ayurvedic medicated water, or CCF tea, made...
by Jo Formosa | Aug 15, 2017 | Blog, Health Tips
Author and scientist Giulia Enders has become renowned for her charming way of talking about the gut, and also promoting the importance of gut health. The 27-year old, who wrote the New York Times best-seller Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ,...
by Jo Formosa | Aug 11, 2017 | Blog, Health Tips
It’s so easy to hit snooze on those cold, dark mornings when you can’t get out of bed, then trudge into the kitchen for a coffee, or two, before starting the day. Brits alone drink some 70 million cups of coffee everyday – Australians, Americans and Europeans all have...
by Jo Formosa | Aug 9, 2017 | Recipes
In today’s society we lead very busy lifestyles and often negate our sleep in compensation for other things. If we have too much to do we cut back on a few hours of sleep. If we continue down this path we start to have these symptoms: foggy head, lethargy,...
by Jo Formosa | Aug 3, 2017 | Detox, Health Tips
The Ayurvedic concept of ‘agni’, or digestive fire, impacts your overall well-being – it’s responsible for the digestion, absorption, assimilation and transformation of food and sensations into energy. A balanced agni is key to living a healthy and fulfilling life. An...
by Jo Formosa | Jul 27, 2017 | Blog, Detox, Feature Blog, Health Tips
We live in a toxic world and are exposed to over 2 million substances that are known to be toxic to the human body and have 25,000 new toxins added to our environment every year – even with a healthy diet and just modest amounts of caffeine and alcohol, we are...
by Jo Formosa | Aug 4, 2016 | Feature Blog, Health Tips, Recipes
A quick, easy and tasty breakfast dish to begin any detox program! Buckwheat pancakes are recommended to a lot of our patients, especially when they’re detoxing or on a weight loss journey. This is because buckwheat is high in protein. While its name suggests it...
by Jo Formosa | Jul 12, 2016 | Health Tips, Recipes
This month is Body Detox month at Back2Health. We’ve also had a lot of interest following Jo Formosa’s appearance on Today Extra where she discussed the virtues of soup to help the detox process. And let’s face it, even if you aren’t detoxing,...
by Jo Formosa | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog, Detox, Feature Blog, Health Tips, Home Remedies, Newsletter
When limiting exposure to screens for two days a week in order to detox from technology – just like the famous 5:2 diet where you limit calories for two days a week – the results can be life-changing. With the average Australian spending more than...
by Jo Formosa | May 16, 2016 | Blog, Feature Blog, Health Tips, Home Remedies, Recipes
Reflect the beautiful colours of autumn in what you eat with this super easy and delicious carrot and ginger soup. Besides it’s colour, carrot has a great many properties – it’s a sweet and nourishing vegetable that is perfect for the cooler months. Its high...