Ageing well comes from the food you eat as well as your lifestyle. As I often get asked what my approach is for anti-ageing and for keeping healthy.  I'm sharing my ultimate simple protocol that I aim to do every day in order to keep my skin glowing and my body feeling healthy.  You might also like to read my nutrition recommendations for anti-ageing in my latest post, Your Anti-Ageing Nutrition Plan. My method to anti-ageing is about PREVENTION and to maintain the quality of my skin and physique as best as I can through a wholefood diet and healthy lifestyle. My...

Welcome to Week 3 of The Healthy Chef Protein Series. I’m excited about this week because it’s all about the importance of protein in sports nutrition. It’s a topic I’m passionate about because my years of training for fitness figure and road cycling competitions has really shown me the benefits of including good quality protein into my diet to support my performance and recovery.

I was introduced to a standard low carb diet also known as the "keto" way of eating in my early 20's when I started lifting weights and training for fitness figure competitions. I am still fascinated at the body's ability to change composition, based primarily on how you eat and how you train. In the early days, I was a real gym junkie…training 6 days a week and carefully monitoring my low carb diet to support the high-intensity workouts I was putting my body through. I learnt a lot, in particular, how to fine tune my diet and in order to support a...