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- Australian Health Insurance: The top 10 things you need to know
- Don't cancel your health insurance
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- Osteo vs. Chiro: What’s the Difference?
- What Private Health Insurance is Right for Me?
- Your handy checklist to Private Health Insurance
- Getting Health Insurance for the first time
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Health, Food & Diet
- Sugar content in alcohol - best & worst
- Coconut oil: the science
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- 5 Post workout recipes
- Losing Weight Without a Fad Diet
- Cheat Days: Worth it?
- Light Milk: Healthier than Full Cream?
- Protein Shakes – Do they really work?
- All About the IIFYM Diet
- 8 Superfoods You’ve Never Heard Of
- 5 Surprising Facts About Coffee
- The Changes Your Body Goes through When you Quit Sugar
- Does Detoxing Actually Work?
- Delicious Sugar Free Recipes
- The Low-Down on Artificial Sweeteners
- The Health Benefits of Smoothies
- Breaking Sugar Addiction
- Organic vs Non Organic Foods
- 7 Healthy Kids Lunchbox Snacks
- The Great Weight Debate
- Fast or Feast? The Guide to the 5:2 Diet
- Medical Spotlight: Heart Disease
- Healthy Fast Food Options
- Salt – Friend or Foe?
- Spotlight on Sugar – how much sugar is in your favourite drinks?
- Are saturated fats and cholesterol really the bad guys?
- Nutritional Truths About Sushi
- What are Macrobiotics?
- Feeding fitness: Eating and exercise tips for breastfeeding mums
- The Raw Food Diet
- Foods and Asthma
- Kids and Food Allergies
- The Lowdown on Homeopathy
- Happy Valentines Day, Every Day! The Benefits of Chocolate
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- Minimize the Effects of Alcohol on Your Health
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- HIIT – Train Smarter, Not Harder!
- Crossfit – What’s all the hype about?
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- Training for a Triathlon – Where to Start
- Physical Culture: Let’s Get Physical
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- Tips to get your kids moving
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5 Post workout recipes
Reward yourself after a hard workout with some sweet yet healthy recipes.
Consume protein within an hour after exercise to fuel muscle growth. It’s called protein timing, and the idea behind it is this: Resistance training increases amino acid delivery to muscles as well as absorption. Therefore, the sooner you consume protein post-exercise, the bigger the stimulation in muscle protein synthesis.
Recipe #1: Power Green Smoothie
Ingredients
Frozen banana
Fresh spinach
Fresh mint
Sunflower seeds
Linseeds
Cinnamon
Coconut water
1 scoop of vanilla protein
Method
Blend all ingredients in your blender until smooth, serve and enjoy.
Recipe #2: Banana-Choc Smoothie
Ingredients
1 cup of organic pure coconut water
½ cup of organic coconut milk
1 handful of spinach
1 scoop of protein powder
1 tbsp raw cacao powder
1 tbsp of acai powder
1 tbsp chia seeds
1 frozen ripe banana
Method
Blend all ingredients in your blender until smooth, serve and enjoy.
Recipe #3: Halvah Shake
Ingredients
1 cup of almond milk
1 tbsp almond butter
1 tbsp unhulled tahini
3 tbsp carob or cacao
1 dash of vanilla extract
1 banana
2 medjool dates
Bee pollen topping
Cacao nibs
Method
Blend all ingredients in your blender until smooth, serve and enjoy.
Recipe #4: Peanut-Choc Bliss Balls
Ingredients
2 cups of salted peanuts
1 scoop of protein powder
1 spoon of raw cacao powder
1/2 cup of wholegrains, seeds and raisins
20ml of almond milk
1/2 cup of dessicated coconut
5ml of coconut water
Method
Start by blending salted peanuts until smooth but not solidified and creamy, no longer than 1 minute.
Mix all the above ingredients (except for dessicated coconut and coconut water) into your blender jar.
Pulse and blend ingredients into meal form. They should all be well mixed into crumbs and eventually incorporated into a big ball.
Use your spatula to remove blend from the jar into a mixing bowl.
Start shaping your ball by firmly pressing them together.
Depending on how moist your bliss balls are, you can roll them over dessicated coconut (or coconut flakes).
Use coconut water to wet the bliss balls to ensure desicated coconut sticks.
Refrigerate for a few hours for the best texture.
Recipe #5: Raw Chocolate Berry Cream Pie
Ingredients
1 cup of frozen berries
2 bananas
3/4 cup salted cashews
5 tablespoons raw cacao powder
1 scoop of chocolate protein powder
1/4 cup maple syrup or honey
1/4 cup orange juice
2 tbsp coconut oil
1/8 teaspoon sea salt (if cashew nuts are not salted)
Dessicated coconut
Frozen raspberries
Method
Add all ingredients into your blender. Blend until creamy and smooth.
Pour mixture into a pie pan. Smooth out with the back of a spoon.
Cover and place in freezer. Freeze overnight to firm up so that it can be sliced perfectly.
This raw chocolate cream pie recipe should always be kept in the freezer as it will get soggy if in the fridge.
When you serve, top with dessicated coconut and raspberries.