Healthy Food Guide

Healthy Food Guide is a monthly magazine that makes it easy for anyone to make healthy eating choices. Every issue contains practical advice from expert dieticians and nutritionists, dozens of tips and ideas to help consumers and those with special diets choose the right products at the supermarket. Plus a month’s worth of healthy recipes, all with a complete nutritional analysis showing kilojoules, fat, protein, carbohydrate, sodium and more.

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Ditch DIETS forever! • Tired of dieting and not seeing results? You’re not alone. Dietitian Lyndi Cohen shares her story, and the secrets to ditching diets forever to maintain a healthier weight.

The effects of popular diets

Q I’ve ditched the diet, so what should I do instead? • The good news is that you can be healthy without dieting, and you don’t have to give up 95 per cent of your life to weigh five per cent less. Start with these six steps.

How to reverse insulin resistance • If your body stops responding to insulin properly, your risk of developing pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes increases. The good news is that you can turn things around before it’s too late. Dietitian Susie Burrell explains how.

7 signs of insulin resistance

What to do to reverse it • The good news is that insulin resistance can be reversed, with plenty of easy lifestyle changes you can make to help you turn things around. Try the following:

THE ROLE OF carbs • Because insulin regulates both glucose and fat metabolism, any disruption to insulin affects our ability to burn fat.

Managing chronic pain • Are you one of the 3.4 million Australians living with persistent pain? Then you’ll understand how debilitating it is, and how it affects nearly all activities of daily living. HFG explores the latest research in pain management.

What are the causes?

The best ways to manage pain

CHRONIC PAIN & INFLAMMATION what’s the link?

Healthy SHORTCUTS TO HELP

Winter warmers

One-pot wonders • These delicious, vegie-packed dishes are full of goodness — and cooked in just one pan so you‘ll have less washing up, too!

Morning glory • Get your day off to a great start with one of these 11 satisfying, cafe-style breakfast ideas.

Pie oh my! • Who can resist tucking into golden and flaky pastry filled with a medley of hearty veg?

5pm panic! • Whip up these tasty, low-GI weeknight meals that are ready in 30 minutes or less.

Meal for two • Need a curry in a hurry? This vegie-laden dhal fits the bill.

Make it Mexican • The kids will love helping out with dinner prep when the results are delicious, cheesy quesadillas.

Ruby dazzler! • If you’re celebrating Christmas in July, this impressive dessert will wow the crowd.

Ginger up!

shopping news • Our dietitian scours the shelves to find the tastiest healthy foods in-store now.

Shelf Watch

10 OF THE BEST SUPERMARKET BABY FOODS • The first twelve months is life’s most rapid period of growth, so good nutrition is paramount for little ones. Here are our top picks for convenient, store-bought bub grub.

YOUR GUIDE TO sweeteners • Are sweeteners a sweet deal? Or are they a health food blunder in...