Month: January 2015

How to make your resolution stick!

January 13, 2015 No Comments

Have you made a New Year’s resolution? Or do you shy away because you find resolutions too challenging to keep? Today, I encourage you to think of one thing that you want to change and I will reveal three key strategies to help make it stick. The most common resolutions include: weight loss, increase in […]

Price of olive oil on the rise

January 13, 2015 No Comments

There’s bad news in store for all you olive oil fans out there: brace yourself to pay more for this basic commodity of the Mediterranean diet, whose merits are praised by gourmets and dietitians alike. The disastrous olive harvest in southern Europe in 2014 is sure to cause an upward surge in oil prices (the […]

Versatile and Gluten-Free Buckwheat

January 10, 2015 No Comments

Once upon a time, buckwheat was the most commonly consumed grain by farmers and the working classes across North America, but at the turn of the 20th century, it lost ground to other cereals. But elsewhere in the world, it continued to be consumed regularly: notably in China, Korea and Japan in the form of […]

Overcome “All or Nothing” mental sabotage

January 8, 2015 1 Comment

Louis Sachar said, “It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.” In a world plagued by impatience and the desire for FAST and EASY results, the idea of taking small steps to achievement seems like a futile process.  Do you train […]

15 Top Diet Trends For 2015

January 6, 2015 No Comments

What’s Trending in Nutrition? Survey of Nutrition Experts Predicts Popular Trends… Gluten-free, GMO-free & Clean Labels, as well as Convenience, Taste & Cost Dictate Consumer Choices Will 2015 be gluten-free? Is Paleo out? Are we eating carbs yet? Is kale still the Queen of Greens or will nuts, seeds or cauliflower take the throne? The […]

Turmeric and Ginger to be in top shape

January 3, 2015 2 Comments

Each year, in January, millions of people look for some miraculous fixes to counteract the harmful effects of the holiday overindulgence (… and all the excess of the previous 12 months). I personally do not believe that such quick fix exist, and rather prefer to eat well and exercise throughout the year. But if I […]

An espresso in space

January 2, 2015 No Comments

In recent weeks, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are savouring authentic Italian coffee with an espresso machine specially designed to overcome the constraints of zero gravity. ISSpresso is the result of collaboration between coffee company Lavazza and Argotec, an Italian engineering company specializing in the design of aeronautic systems and the preparation of […]

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