Alia is a renowned nutritionist, speaker and author living in Bahrain and we’ve done a few interviews together – or nutritionists’ chats as that’s really what they are.

In this interview hear Alia share her top tips about how to encourage fussy eaters to eat their vegetables, if there is such a thing as a fussy eater and much more.

We’d love to hear your questions and comments after watching this video – what have you found helpful with your children?

The truth is, that dairy is addictive, literally, it gives us that same doped, sleepy feeling that it gives baby cows (just as human babies often fall asleep after they’ve nursed, or at least you see that look of satisfaction in their eyes). And in our modern world where one of our greatest challenges is to slow down and really be present in our lives, reaching for food is the quickest, easiest thing we resort to to feel nurtured and safe. This is a whole topic in itself but you can see why this isn’t healthy for us.

In this post you can read more about why dairy is so controversial.

But what if I were to tell you that it’s not all or nothing? That unless there is a medical reason why you can’t eat dairy, that perhaps there is a healthy way for you to enjoy it?

Watch this week’s video to find out how:

That’s why I prefer to use the word harmony. I know, we mean the same thing, right, so what’s really in a word?

Well, a lot, because words are powerful, we hear them and this in turn brings about an actual physical reaction in our body which then contributes to the view, and even the truth of what we think about ourselves, who we are, what we are capable of, the kind of world we live in and so forth.

We have so many demands on our time and energy. We want it all and yet at the same time we really do want to prioritise our self-care because we know that this is where we step out as our best self and are able to fulfill our highest potential in this life.

Take this quiz to see how well you’re getting everything done, whilst also respecting your own personal needs and wants.

If you answered false more often than true, you may want to take a look at the questions to which you answered false and see if you what this is telling you. What is the message here? What exact steps can I take to turn this into a True? Who can I reach out to to help me get there as quickly, as easily and as joyfully as possible?

Want to explore how I can help you create an incredible life through amazing health at the very core of your being? This might well be the conversation that gets you feeling amazing in your body and life… http://www.carolinecain.com/contact/

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Eggs have received a bad reputation over the years in the name of cholesterol, but the dietary cholesterol in egg yolk is actually the healthy kind, the kind that protects your heart, the kind that raises the HDL ‘good’ cholesterol in your body.

But, to get to the point of this blog post, it’s to say that eating egg yolks actually increases your happiness. This is because cholesterol, omega 3 fats and the choline in yolk are beneficial for your neurological function. In plain English this means that they are good for your brain development.  Choline helps your body to produce the various happy hormones making foods high in choline, such as the humble and now no-longer-shamed egg yolk, a nutrient dense food to enjoy.

What’s your favourite way of eating eggs?

ps) an aged Russian healer once told my father to eat 16 eggs a day to heal his torn achilles tendon. It didn’t work.

Here’s a video that I spontaneously filmed this afternoon following a flood of emails that have been coming in from since I launched my 5 week program The Magic of Radiant Health over a week ago.

This video is for you if:

• you know about health, you just need to put that knowledge into place
• right now growing your business (whatever it may be) is your priority, and figuring out how that works alongside family and social life, your health is good enough and you’ll get around to making it amazing once this next step/course/project/launch is out of the way

I invite you to check in with yourself:

• are your cells vibrating to the Universe’s tune of manifestation?
• does your health fit in with the vision you have for your life?
• is your health onboard with the entrepreneurial lifestyle you envision – do you fully embody your brand (your coaching, teaching, art etc)?

You can plant as many great seeds as you like, do well, be a success but if the soil isn’t up to scratch, top quality, one day you’re going to notice it. It’s going to hold you back whether physically, emotionally or spiritually. I recorded this video because I truly want you to say YES! to yourself, to feel the most amazing that you can. It’s my mission in life to help you get there because I know what a difference it makes in all areas of life. Yes, it can be a little scary, yes, there’s (always) tomorrow…but I want this for you NOW. I want you to grab your best life with both hands and bring about that transformation you dream of…but with tiny manageable steps to take you there with my 5 week group program.

I’ll shut up now and let you get on with watching! Enjoy!

I’m on a mission to make health eating and living a reality for you. Following my teleseminar which I held last week, The Magic of Radiant Health I received quite a few comments from women entrepreneurs who said that they really get it when I talk about the importance of mindful eating. Not just on our psyche but also because it affects our metabolism, our digestion, how we feel in our body and our clarity of mind. But they don’t know how to actually make this a reality when life is going on and you’ve got people around you, there are things to do etc.

Of course when you’re on a roll to increase positivity in your life you want others to join you. But the point that I always bring it back to, is, in the words of the great Gandhi ‘Be the change you want to see in the world‘. It’s important to take a step back and put yourself first to make it second nature in your own life. Not only will your positive changes naturally rub off on those around you, but it’ll be easier to encourage those around you to adopt some of these healthy habits without it feeling like it’s a struggle or you have to justify why you’re doing it.

No matter how hectic and busy things are around you, when it comes to meal times, you can always take just 1-2 seconds to step back and take a deep breath in…and out…Literally in that 1 second you send every single one of your cells a boost of oxygen and the message that it’s ok to slow down, your digestive system can relax and take the time to digest the coming meal as you don’t have to run away from an emergency. It’s about just resting for a few seconds before eating a meal and being mindful of what’s on your plate.

If you want to learn more about mindful eating and the importance of this healthy habit and others that take no time at all to implement, sign up for the recording of my teleseminar The Magic of Radiant Health in the pink box on the upper right hand side of my website to instantly receive my FREE call.

To make natural, healthy living and eating a reality for us it needs to fit into our modern ways of being in one way or another.

In this video I share how to create a both/and approach rather than either/or which blocks us in making choices that bring us closer to our health and the natural world around us.

What is one way in which you bring a more natural, holistic way of living into your everyday choices?

If so, you’re definitely not alone on that one.

A client of mind brought this up a few weeks ago which inspired me to write this post. She said that she didn’t feel normal with her new food and lifestyle choices.

When others around you are doing and eating ‘normal’ things – big nights out, coffee the next day to stay awake, eating take-away pizza, big bowls of paste, refined sugar cereals for breakfast, brown bread sandwiches on the go, eating packaged foods, even packaged ‘health foods’, all of which are ‘normal’ in our current society, of course it can be really tough to be the one doing something ‘extreme’ such as cutting out gluten or dairy.

Even though you’ve done your research and you know why you are doing what you’re doing, it takes courage. It takes persistence. It takes a desire to change something. It takes knowing that life is bigger and that you want it all! It’s about knowing you don’t have a choice if you fully want to embrace life feeling your absolute best in a body and life you love.

Consider also that we live in a world where serious physical and emotional issues are the norm. Where have these come from (and are they really normal)?

When it comes to being healthy it’s about much more than the food on your plate. You can eat all the carrots you like but if your whole self is not in alignment with what you are doing, the benefits of the positive change will only be superficial. The more you align with your why the more you will want to make positive change and the easier it will become for you to implement it as part of your everyday life, without having to think about it.

So when you start to feel anti-social or forget the importance of what you are doing, remember your WHY. Why did you start this in the first place? What outcome do you desire? Check in with your heart and with your gut, how do you feel? Do you feel that this is beneficial and positive despite being hard?

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou

What are your best tactics for helping you keep with your goals when the going gets tough?

It’s not when the proverbial hits the fan that you are going to start implementing essential health habits and strategies to help you through with ease and flow. You need to get it in place now for it to serve you in the long term. Your healthy lifestyle needs to be established in your daily life in such a way that you don’t think about it anymore, it’s part and parcel of how you live. But where to start when there’s just so much to being healthy – the sleep, the food, the exercise, the positive thinking, the water, the not this, not that etc?

In this video I give you a really simple strategy so that you can begin to make this your reality, your way of living, from today.

To help hold yourself accountable, share with us in the comments what you are going to implement today.

Is this a typical conversation for you:

“Hm, what d’you fancy for lunch?”
“I was thinking some vitamin B, maybe with some iron and magnesium, a bit of iodine sprinkled on top and then some vitamin C for dessert”

No, didn’t think so.
Too much fancy wancy nutritional hyperbol makes it look like we live in a world of parts and we lose focus on just eating real food. Whole food and a variety of it.

* Why do you want to drink more water?
* You love coffee, so why do you feel you need to cut back or cut it out altogether?
* What does eating slowly have to do with me losing weight?
* Dairy…something to do with mucous…yeah, I dunno.
* Mmm, berries, full of antioxidants, really healthy for you. Why? Not sure really.

What health tidbit have you learned about lately or since watching this video? Please share it with us below so that we can all become the wiser for it!