Healthy Households

It’s refreshing to see the dangers of Bisphenol-A hitting the mainstream media. Consumer advocacy group Choice are demanding that BPA be removed from tinned foodthat are fed to infants and toddlers in Australia. 38 samples were tested, and of those, 29 were revealed to have potentially harmful levels of BPA. These weren’t no name brands either, three [...]

It pleases us no end to see a larger variety of organic product and brands not only making a success in Australia, but also being stocked in major supermarkets. True Organic produce a range of NASAA certified organic butter & cheeses, including cheddar, edam, gouda, brie, mozarella & pecorino. Check out the deli fridge at [...]

Weeds are a plague in most people’s gardens, and especially for those with poorly set up gardens. We are unfortunately living in a rental at the moment with very poorly set up garden beds. Weeds are constantly growing in them and patches of our lawn are about 1/3 pure weeds. Rather than spend huge amounts [...]

After seeing a recent promo on Sunrise where the sponsor was an egg company who had the phrase CAGE FREE EGGS plastered all over their carton with cartoon smiling eggs dancing around on the screen, I stopped and wondered to myself why on earth they didn’t just call them FREE RANGE. Today, on a trip to [...]

Swimming is an excellent form of exercise. It’s low impact, great for stamina and muscle toning. The worst thing about swimming though can be boredom. If you’re the kind of person who loves being with their thoughts, swimming is perfect exercise & relaxation all rolled in to one. If you’re not, it can be dull, [...]

Clean Up Australia Day is coming soon, 7th March 2010. While it’s great to encourage people to clean up one day a year, if we all changed the way we lived, this day would not be necessary. Here’s a handy tip to ‘Keep Australia Clean’ for the other 364 days of the year too …. Have [...]

Need a calcium boost in your diet? Depending on your sex and your age, your body needs a different amount of calcium for each stage of your life. While we’d all love to get our daily intake of calcium purely from chocolate, it’s not the healthiest way to do it!! One of the most overlooked [...]

After watching Jamie Oliver on TV recently, I was horrified to see the awful state that battery hens are kept in. While I have always made the choice to only buy Free Range Eggs, I have never really seen the condition these hens are kept in. Unfortunately, choosing Free Range Eggs at the supermarket isn’t [...]