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Gluten Free Orange and Almond Cake

This beautifully moist orange and almond cake will be a winner…..if you take the time to blend the oranges well. If you don’t, you’ll end up with some very bitter bits of orange peel in your cake. Using whole oranges,
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Running Sugar Free

Today’s the day we go sugar free.  How sugar free are you going? I’ve decided on no added sugar in any processed foods, which means being vigilant in checking labels, not eating my favourite treat of tahini and honey on
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Calcium Rich Foods For Runners

Calcium is important for many functions in the body, including muscular contraction, maintaining blood pH levels, strong teeth, and of course for helping to maintain bone density. When thinking calcium, many people automatically think dairy, but there are many more
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Is there an end in sight to portion size increases?

Yes and no, but mostly it would seem, no. According to a 2007 paper published in the Journal of Public Health Policy, portion sizes offered by fast food chains are two to five times larger than when first introduced. When
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The Self Refilling Soup Bowl (and what it tells us)

  Does portion size effect how much we eat? You bet it does! In a study which used self refilling soup bowls to measure whether visual cues relating to portion size effected how much we eat, participants who were unknowingly
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Motivational Quotes

Having spent almost the entire week prior to Christmas working in my backyard from literally dawn to dusk preparing the area for turf, I went into the holiday period ill-prepared on the reading front. I can usually rely on at
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New Year’s Vision

  At this time of year, just about everyone is banging on about New Year’s Resolutions – why you need them, how hard it is to keep them, how to keep them, some articles even go so far as to
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Running Aids Brain Growth

Recent headlines suggested scientists had “discovered” that exercise was good for the brain, however the recent study out of Cambridge University and the US National Institute on Aging is just part of a growing body of work on the subject.
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School Holiday Activities

If you are looking for some low cost holiday activities to keep the kids moving, here are some ideas. I know there are loads more things to do out there, so please add any of your own ideas to the
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