November Blog – Lately you may have heard or read about non- stick pans being less than safe, even highly toxic. We spend so much time, energy and money on keeping our food clean and green, so why ruin all the good work by cooking it a vessel that is leaching heavy metals into our […]
Yippee! I’ve found an organic wheat and gluten free pasta that not only isn’t completely stoggy and fluffy but cooks beautifully and feels like traditional pasta. Really! (Better in fact – for me and most of us anyway) This one is quinoa and rice spaghetti and the others in the Olive Green Organics range are […]
Making a Smoothie is a regular part of my day. I have a shelf right next to the fridge and above my Vitamix, just for my smoothie ingredients – things like chia seeds, green powders and aloe juice by Lifestream, and different oils like flax and Made In Hemp oil, tahini, coconut water, flakes and […]
Eastern Medicine to the Rescue – a remedy for true and deep healing. By Janella Purcell As many of you know, my digestion is hyper- sensitive and lets me know if anything at all is slightly off in my life. It’s like having a noisy guard dog. Over the years western medical practitioners have gone from […]
I have come to realise that whenever I am struggling with my health it’s because A. I am working too much or B. I am putting far too much stress on myself, for too long, or C. Both of the above. It’s never about what I’m eating – because that is divine, or a lack […]
(Blog for October 2014) Have you ever considered writing a letter to your younger self? ‘Imagine’…if you had the wisdom you have now back then. Here is mine. It’s kinda personal, but hey – we are all in this together. My First Media Gig – Community Radio 2RES in Sydney, age 23. Dear Janella, Before […]
We all have bad days, some worse than others, yet some we just love to continue to revisit in our heads because they were just so darn wonderful. And then again, some days it’s hard to get out of bed. It seems easier when we know the reason why we’re feeling the way you do […]
It’s been 10 years since my first book ‘Elixir:How To Use Food As Medicine’ was first published, and to celebrate I’m making the prize for ‘Your Creations’ 3 copies of the 2nd edition of ‘Elixir’, which came out in January 2013. I launched this book the same night I opened my clinic in Surry Hills […]
I’m getting a quick pedicure at a salon as I write. I rarely paint my nails as I don’t like the chemicals or the yellow stain it leaves. But I have a special occasion I need nice toes for. Naturally I have brought my own nail polish that has fewer chemicals than the average bottle […]
Autumn is traditionally a time for harvest and our attention needs to be on nurturing, building and supporting our organs for the cold change ahead. It is time to clear the heat of summer from your body. This is traditionally the time of year when we fermented and pickled the abundance of produce we had […]
