I was astounded to learn two particular facts when recently viewing “THAT SUGAR MOVIE.” The average consumer ingests a colossal 40 teaspoons of sugar a day! Only 20 % of food on our supermarket shelves does not contain sugar ! According to statistics, 36% of New Zealand children are obese. This figure rises to 60% for Pacific Island and 40% for NZ Maori kids. WE ARE THE THIRD HIGHEST NATION FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN THE WORLD. Ok we may not be adding 40 teaspoons of sugar to our daily meals, but the quantity is clocked up by sugars hidden in foods we innocently purchase; ready-made, processed meals, jars, cans, bottles, packets. The quickest way to figure out what’s in a product when purchasi
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” Coco Chanel If you asked me a few years ago, what I liked about myself you would have been greeted with a stumped silence. Why? Because I didn’t like anything about myself. Not one hair. However, if you’d asked me what I hated about myself? Oh boy, now we would have been really talking! The truth was this: I hated everything about myself. Especially, my freckled (A.K.A blotchy) face. Especially my wobbly thighs. Especially my stomach fat that just wouldn’t budge despite hours of sweating and crunching. Especially my hair which was always so straight and flat. Why couldn’t it be more like my friend Heather’s hair which always looked so nat
