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"Education is much more than a matter of imparting the knowledge and skills by which narrow goals are achieved. It is also about opening the child’s eyes to the needs and rights of others"

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Here at "create the balance" we make it our business to represent you in the health and well being of you and your family. As we make it our business to put you in touch with the experts that can assist you in making the right decision for you.

We are strong believers in fuelling correctly, resting appropriately, exercising your body efficiently, and educating your mind sufficiently.

We hope this section of our website assists you in deciding how to commence moderation in what you put into your bodies.

basic daily dietary guidelines :

With continuous research being carried out worldwide, there are once again many different theories on what we should put into our bodies. We do know however know that our diets are divided up into the following five basic food groups :
  • Eat Plenty of Vegetables & Legumes
  • Eat Plenty of Cereals (eat plenty including breads, rice, pasta and noodle preferably whole grain)
  • Eat Plenty of Fruit
  • Include Lean meat, fish, poultry, nuts & Legumes
  • Include Milk, Yogurt and Cheese and /or alternatives. Reduced fat options should be chosen where possible
  • In addition :

    Drink plenty of water. Refer hydration section
    Limit saturated fat and moderate total fat intake
    Choose foods low in salt
    Limit alcohol intake if you choose to drink
    Consume moderate amounts of sugars and foods containing added sugars.

  • Supplements :

As we are encouraged to consume certain types of fresh foods, their can be a considerable short fall in levels of nutritional value within these foods, due to freshness, life expectancy, cleaning and spraying not to mention whether they are labelled "organic" or not. Refer to "supplement watch & supply" section of this website for your perusal and consideration of some of the worlds best.


NHMRC


The Australian Government & Department of Health and Aging in conjunction with the NH&MRC have produced a fantastic series of "Food for Health" Brochure for recommended dietary intakes, clarifying how many servings of the individual food groups we should have each day according to our ages.

For a copy of the brochure email: phd.publications@health.gov.au
or telephone : 1800 020 103 extension 8650.

As lifestyle components vary and energy consumption is increased, diets have to change proportionally to amount of exertion. Most athletes for example would follow a low fat, high carbohydrate eating pattern to maximise performance. If injured however may contemplate increasing protein to build and repair muscle with additional dietary supplements.

Refer to "sports medicine" and "nutrition in detail" sections of this webpage for further information.