04Apr 2019 by Nadia Mazari
Is Fresh Really Best?

Is Fresh Really Best?

Health
The profound power of social media in today’s world has presented us with strikingly different trends in health, wellness and consumerism. Freak-shakes, loaded fries and triple-decker burgers claim glory on the internet at the same time as clean-eating, Ayurvedic medicine and HIIT workouts. So although we’re encouraged to ‘go all out’ on our indulgences, we’re also often guilt-tripped into having to remediate it through healthy, natural and low-tox lifestyles. One such example of this remediation is the widespread notion that ‘fresh is always best’ when it comes to fruits and vegetables. According to this concept, we should steer clear of any processed forms of fruits and vegetables, and if we want optimal nutrition, we must buy local. Considering only 5% of Aussies over the age of 18 are consuming the…
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22Aug 2017 by Aidan Muir
Kate Wengier Q & A

Kate Wengier Q & A

Other
Can you please tell us a little about yourself and your career? My name is Kate and I’m a mum of four and a dietitian. Being a dietitian, I started off being trained in a hospital, but for me, I was always more interested in health promotion, so rather than following that hospital path, I started doing some private practice work. The more work I did, the more interested I became in behaviour change before it even developed to what it is today and I wanted to go a more “upstream” regarding health promotion. We started doing some kids’ cooking classes and about three years ago, we launched Foost. Foost has one main mission: to get people to eat colourfully—to increase people’s intake of fruit and vegetables—it’s literally that simple.…
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