Emulsifiers: Friend or foe?
Emulsifiers have been getting a bad rap lately, but have been around a...
How to choose: Ready meals
Convenient they may be, but how do ready meals stack up nutrition-wise? Healthy...
How much salt is in your kids’ day?
It’s easy for sodium to build up over a day. Dietitian Katrina Pace...
Processed foods: Can they be healthy?
Mention ‘processed foods’ and you probably think of fat or sugar-laden snacks. But...
How to choose hot drinks
There aren’t many things better than wrapping your hands around a steaming mug...
How to spot sugar
Becoming a sugar spy – sniffing out hidden additions or decoding nutrition labels...
A simple guide to food additives
Many of our favourite foods these days contain a long list of additives....
Additive labelling
Ciska de Rijk and Gwendoline Keel, food law specialists at Simpson Grierson, explain...
Are the problems with your kids really about food?
From grizzles and rashes to running wild and refusing to go to bed,...
The dark side of the white stuff
It’s confusing when we’re being told not to eat too much salt, that...
Sugar, sugar: Where’s it hiding?
There’s nothing wrong with a little sugar, says HFG senior nutritionist Rose Carr,...
The top unhealthy eating traps for travellers and how to avoid them
When you’re in the habit, it’s not so hard to eat healthily when...
Would you like bugs for dinner?
Today I received a very interesting delivery, all the way from Thailand. It’s...
Pressure is mounting: let’s be brave and introduce a sugary drinks tax
At the weekend a group of over 70 public health professors from New...
Let’s do something about obesity, type 2 diabetes and dental health today
We’ve been hearing for a while now the alarming reports of what excess...
