I See Weak People – Part One

The humans are broken.  We live in a world with an obesity epidemic – there’s a no-brainer statement.  We are obsessed by fat. By how we get fat, and by how we get rid of it.  Let’s take some heavily rounded out numbers; approximately 40% of New Zealand society is overweight, and near-enough to 30% […]

The Journey Continues

Back in January I published this guest post from Tim, describing his journey after tumbling down the paleo rabbit hole. Well here is a pictorial and graphical update of Tim’s progress…     I first met Tim in September 2012, so not long after the first photo was taken.  Since following my advice, wilfully and […]

Follow the trail

Regular readers will know that Sanitarium offers up much fodder for me.  The irony of a church-run company taking the immoral, if not illegal, path of using a loophole in our tax system (which appears to not want to be closed any time soon) to fund-raise for its Christian mission in an increasingly secular society, […]

Healthy Kick-Start or Health Time-Bomb?

This is an essay I wrote for my workplace recently.  I thought I’d share it here too. Healthy Kick-Start or Health Time-Bomb? The recent government announcement of an extension of a programme which gives children breakfast in school, sponsored by a dairy and a cereal company, throws up several issues and questions for me as […]

Whole9 South Pacific Goes to Wellington

Wellington… Yes, hello. We are coming to you to talk about food and to drink coffee in your fair city.  We’ve even been putting in some high-wind landing practice by flying into Hobart recently. Whenever we run a workshop, the success of it hinges on having passionate people on the ground, squirreling away, convincing people […]