Food/Diet Archives - Mullen Health

27th August, 2025

The Top 3 Gluten-Free Breads on a Naturopath’s Shopping List

Going gluten-free can feel like a golden ticket to better health - especially if you’ve got coeliac disease, gluten sensitivity, ...

9th July, 2025

Tegan’s Top Clean Supermarket Products: Convenient and Healthy Alternatives

Eating whole foods whilst avoiding gluten, dairy, saturated fats and seed oils can sometimes seem like A LOT, but at ...

18th June, 2025

A Naturopaths guide to Staying Healthy in Winter

When the chill sets in, the blankets come out, the cravings for warm carbs kick in, and the days feel ...

7th May, 2025

5 Natural Remedies to Supercharge Your Immune System This Winter

Want to Supercharge Your Immune System This Winter? Here's How. Cold weather, shorter days, and the sniffle season is approaching. Winter ...

29th January, 2025

What Are The Benefits of Eating Whole Foods?

Nourishing your body with wholefoods is super important for so many reasons, however many people are just not getting enough. ...

22nd January, 2025

Eat Your Way To Calm – Amazing Foods And Supplements To Fight Depression

Food is a wonderful thing - when used effectively it fills our bodies up with energy fit for the day, ...

16th January, 2025

How Your Thyroid Can Affect Your Weight

When it comes to weight fluctuations, many factors can come into play, from diet and exercise habits to stress management. ...

6th January, 2025

How To Normalise an Overactive Immune System

What is an overactive immune system? First things first - what on earth is an overactive immune system? Think of it ...

26th August, 2024

The Secret Ingredient – Coconut Oil Benefits

Welcome to the world of natural wellness, where the secrets to health and vitality often lie in the simplest of ...

12th August, 2024

The Best Foods for All Kinds of Acne

Acne is a common skin condition that affects millions of people worldwide, causing everything from blackheads and whiteheads to painful ...

13th December, 2023

6 Tips to help you stick to your health goals during the holidays

With Christmas and New Years right around the corner there is so much additional load on our plates that our ...

17th July, 2023

Not a fan of bananas? Shake up your smoothies with these banana alternatives

Smoothies are a great on-the-go meal or snack. They are quick and easy to make, and chances are you probably ...

10th May, 2023

The Benefits of Superfoods and How to Use Them

You’ve heard it before; superfoods are the most superior of all the foods and we should be including them in ...

12th April, 2023

How to reduce your child’s anxiety with food

The pandemic really threw a curve ball at us, and whilst it feels like those days are long over (thank ...

8th November, 2022

Natural Remedies for Salicylate Sensitivity

Food is made up of macro nutrients like carbohydrates, protein and fats alongside micronutrients like vitamins and minerals. Natural food ...

1st February, 2022

Comparing Diets

Ketogenic, Palaeolithic, Flexitarian, intermittent fasting, low carb, low fat, when it comes to diets, the list is endless. Depending on ...

27th October, 2021

A holistic approach to nutrition

Often when people hear the word nutrition they think of diets, counting calories and restrictive eating, and for some this ...

16th September, 2021

Are you ready for a 14-day clean eating challenge?

Article Written by Alicia Poole from Hunter Hunter: For the first time in a while, we are all spending much more ...

1st April, 2021

Dark Chocolate: Friend or Foe?

I love dark chocolate, it’s a not so secret guilty pleasure of mine. I love the combination of bitter and ...

1st November, 2018

Are you drinking the right water?

Drinking enough water is an important part of keeping healthy. But how much thought do you give to where your ...

30th August, 2018

Why Dairy isn’t your friend

Dairy is one of those food groups we grow up eating without questioning. But as a Naturopath, it’s one of ...

31st May, 2018

How much protein is enough?

We all know that a healthy diet includes a balance of good-quality protein, healthy fats and complex carbohydrates (in moderation), ...

26th October, 2017

4 Gluten Free Bread Alternatives

It may seem like a fad to some, but there’s a good reason why people are going gluten-free. It’s actually one ...

5th October, 2017

5 Milk Alternatives to try

As a Naturopath, milk is one of the first things I recommend my patients cut out of their diets. While ...

28th September, 2017

How to Eat – Practicing ‘Foodfullness’

Do you know someone who eats standing on two feet? This is just one of the many eating crimes that ...

31st August, 2017

5 reasons to drink more green tea

We all know green tea is good for us, but there’s so much more to this cuppa than meets the ...

17th August, 2017

Organic, free range, barn laid and conventional – where to find a good egg

How many times have you stood in the supermarket, staring at the shelf full of eggs, trying to work out ...

1st June, 2017

The Problem with Soy

Depending on who you listen to, soy is either an amazing superfood, or it’s going to increase your risk of ...

16th March, 2017

5 Dairy free ways to get Calcium

Calcium and dairy - they’re so intertwined in our minds. As a Naturopath, when I tell my clients that it ...

23rd January, 2017

Are you an emotional eater?

It starts with a scoop of ice cream, and before you know it, the whole tub is gone. For a ...

16th January, 2017

4 Healthy Swaps to start 2017 right

Want to start 2017 off on the right foot?It can be hard to kick the junk food habit after holidays, ...

3rd November, 2016

5 Meat-Free Sources Of Protein To Add To Your Diet

There are so many reasons to eat more meat-free meals: they are almost always cheaper, lower in kilojoules and better ...

27th October, 2016

Why you need FAT in your diet

Since the 1980s we’ve been waging a war on fat - blaming it for widening waistlines, high cholesterol and increasing ...

20th October, 2016

Cocoa V Cacao

Until recently, you have probably never even heard of cacao. Growing up, mum would use cocoa in all her cooking ...

2nd June, 2016

Four ways to wean yourself off sugar

How difficult is it to actually quit sugar? If you’ve ever tried, you’ll know it’s harder than you think. Considering the ...

19th May, 2016

Why you should be eating organic

We’re bombarded with food marketing every day — claims like ‘all natural’, 'healthy' and ‘nutritious’ are practically on every label! But there’s one ...

7th April, 2016

Lee Holmes – Supercharged Food

One of our favourite health food gurus, Lee Holmes, is coming to Newcastle to launch her book Eat Right for ...

17th March, 2016

7 health-boosting reasons to try Fermenting!

Cultured and fermented foods have been an important part of the human diet in many cultures for centuries, but we ...

4th February, 2016

The real secrets behind every diet that works

You’ve heard of clean eating, Paleo, the CSIRO diet, the Mediterranean Diet and hundreds of others. These diets work – and ...

8th December, 2015

Organic Blueberries

Bobs Farm Berries is principally a blueberry farm, growing southern highbush and rabbiteye varieties. We also produce raspberries, youngberries, boysenberries, strawberries, ...

30th July, 2015

12 foods our Naturopaths won’t eat

We all know the sorts of foods we should be eating – fresh, organic fruits and vegetables, lean proteins and ...

14th May, 2015

Find it hard to shop organic? Try this

If you’ve ever tried to buy organic ingredients or healthy cooking alternatives you’ll know what a struggle it can be ...

16th April, 2015

It’s time to go green!

It's that time of the year again - the weather is getting cooler and it's almost time to start swapping ...

30th October, 2014

Find the Best at Hunter Markets

HOW TO FIND THE BEST OF THE REST AT HUNTER MARKETS How many times have you been to the farmers markets? ...

16th October, 2014

Find the Best Fruit at Hunter Markets

HOW TO FIND THE BEST FRUIT AT HUNTER MARKETS I’m a firm believer in buying fresh produce from the farmers’ markets. ...

12th October, 2014

Find the Best Veges at Hunter Markets

HOW TO FIND THE BEST VEGES AT HUNTER MARKETS If you would like to give the farmers markets a go, but ...

27th February, 2014

The Truth about Salt

Salt has always been controversial. It is a contributor to heart disease and high blood pressure but salt doesn’t have ...

20th February, 2014

Is milk for you?

Milk – we’re taught it’s the best source of calcium and essential for bone development. But milk may not be ...

16th January, 2014

Your salad may not be as healthy as you think

Are you guilty of dousing your salads in pre-made salad dressings? You may be surprised to know that many commercial dressings ...

28th November, 2013

Why we love coconut oil

Coconut oil is one of the best oils for you – from weight loss benefits to healthy, glowing skin, it ...

21st November, 2013

Butter or margarine – Which is better for you?

During the rise of diet culture in the 1980’s we were fed the low-fat ideology – that ALL fat was ...

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