Health & Wellbeing Podcast #17

Here is another video and podcast for you – this episode I am joined with Laura Yen (you may know her as Laura Burton, she got married not long after we recorded this!) and we chat about our approach to healthy eating, which is based on naturopathic principles. We discuss things such as a whole food diet, our opinion on the paleo diet and the key principles we recommend for healthy eating.

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Laura is a clinical naturopath practicing in St Leonards and Dural. Her key areas of interest are female hormone disorders, digestive health, stress & adrenal fatigue. Through her clinical experience Laura has identified the prevalence of stress in our everyday lives and sees it as the most common cause or exacerbating factor of her patients health conditions. Laura believes that we need to get back to basics and work on our ability to release and manage stress in order to prevent and treat disease.

Last year Laura set herself the mission to reach beyond the walls of her clinics and send her de-stress message out to Australian and New Zealand households through the Burton Health Tea Club. Each month she sends love letters and tea packages to her members to inject joy and excitement into their days and to remind them to slow down, relax and reconnect while sipping on a cup of organic herbal tea.

You can connect with Laura via her website www.burtonhealth.com.au, on Facebook, Twitter or on Instagram.

Podcast Breakdown:

0:00 Intro and disclaimer
0:44 Welcome
1:33 The importance of an individualised diet
2:45 Diet wars and fad diets
3:56 The 80/20 rule
6:16 A Healthy diet shouldn’t be about deprivation, rather learning to prepare and enjoying whole foods
8:14 Whole food diet
10:13 Processed foods
13:30 Fruit and juice
17:30 Calorie counting
18:55 Eat for health rather than weight loss and the importance of micronutrients
21:40 Antioxidants and other beneficial chemicals in food, herbs and spices
25:45 Wisdom from traditional diets
27:23 Anti-nutrient chemicals in food and how to minimise their impact on our digestive system
28:30 Our opinion on the paleo diet
31:03 It’s not just what you eat but how you eat
34:23 Plan your meals and try new foods and recipes
37:04 Foods for specific conditions and eating for the seasons
39:28 Short term diets e.g. ketogenic diets
40:36 Health food product deceptions, low-fat foods
42:14 Water
43:35 How to get in contact

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To me, a roast is synonymous with Sunday dinner and for me this entails crispy roast vegetables and gravy made from the juices of the roast meat. For a long time, a roast dinner was considered a luxury meal and even now it can be seen as being expensive, but if you make use of the leftovers in a clever way it can be a real money saver for the rest of the week.

I like to opt for cuts of meat that are both versatile for later uses, but also taste good.

Compared to a roast leg of lamb, lamb shoulder is a cheaper cut of meat that when slow cooked is melt in the mouth tasty. It can have a lot of fat pockets, but don’t let this put you off, as most of these melt out of the meat and it’s also essential for keeping the meat tender during the long roasting period.

Ingredients

• Lamb Shoulder – around 1.5 kg
• Handful of rosemary sprigs
• 8 garlic cloves
• Salt and pepper

Method

Preheat the oven to 140°C

Place two-thirds of the rosemary sprigs in the bottom of a baking dish (there’s no need to pick the leaves, just throw them in whole), and scatter the garlic cloves on top. Place the lamb shoulder on top of the garlic and rosemary, then season generously with salt and cracked black pepper. Cover the dish tightly with a double-layer of aluminum foil, and bake for 4-6 hours, or until the lamb pulls apart easily with a fork, or the bone pulls out with little resistance.  Remove the foil and increase the heat to 200°C, and roast for a further 20-30 minutes just to create a bit of a crust on the exterior.

Remove the lamb from the oven, and rest covered for at least 30 minutes.

Shredded lamb shoulder and coleslaw wrap

~Serves 2~

Ingredients

• 2 handfuls of leftover roast lamb shoulder, shredded
• mountain bread wraps
• 1 avocado

Coleslaw:

• 1 carrot
• ¼ red cabbage
• ½ red onion
• Handful flat leaf parsley
• ¼ fennel bulb
• 1 long red chilli, deseeded (optional)

Dressing:

• 2 tbsp olive, macadamia or avocado oil
• Salt and pepper
• 1 tbsp red wine vinegar, rice wine vinegar or lemon juice
• 1 tsp Dijon mustard
• 1 tsp mirin

Method

Use a slicing attachment on a food processor, a mandolin or a knife to shred the cabbage, onion and fennel. Use a grater (or grating attachment of the food processor) for the carrot. Pile it all into a bowl. Finely chop the chilli and roughly chop the parsley and add these in.

Mix the dressing together and pour over the salad, and allow to pickle for a few minutes.

To assemble, place a handful of the dressed coleslaw, a few slices of avocado and a half handful of lamb on a wrap, roll up and dig in.

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