Active8me Recipe – Dry Fishball Noodles
This staple appears in Hawkers centres and food halls across Asia and is often the go-to dish for a delicious taste of humble Singaporean food. The simple ingredients in the Active8me dry fishball noodles recipe provides a taste sensation in your mouth, with every mouthful bursting with flavour. You can replicate your favourite dish within […]
Eating Out – Not all Vegetable and Salad Dishes Are Healthy!
Don’t we all love grabbing a quick, cheap and easy meal at a food hall, hawker centre or street stall? But eating out presents its own minefield when you want to eat healthy. While we may opt for a quick snack of popiah or have a side of sambal kangkong in an attempt to up […]
Mythbuster – Raw Food Diet – Fact, Fiction and Myth
We love a good salad, and we believe in eating ‘clean’, that is, more wholefoods, less processed foods. But we wonder what it would be like to only ever eat a raw food diet? Hmmm, no warming soups or fresh bread. No lean, grilled meat to accompany that salad. No rice or pasta… The ‘weight […]
The Keto Diet Tried and Tested – What You Need To Know
It seems the buzz word in the celebrity weight loss world is ‘keto diet’. Every other day we see something pop up on social media about how the keto diet can have you dropping weight in an instant, enhancing performance, curing health problems and more. Sounds too good to be true? Well, it’s time we […]
Mythbuster – Good Carb, Bad Carb – The Myth About Carbs Busted
We often hear so much about how bad carbs are, don’t we? Carbs are the enemy! Low-carb diets are the go! Carbs are responsible for the world-wide obesity epidemic! Well, it’s time we did some myth-busting and handed the balanced truth about carbs to you on a plate (pun intended 🙂 ). Firstly, a little […]
7 Simple Ways Every Person Can Reduce Food Waste
Did you know that more than one third of all food produced globally is wasted or spoiled. One-third! At Active8me we’re all about healthy, active living. And for us that also includes looking after our environment as much as looking after our bodies. Part of that is looking at ways to reduce food waste. “Wasted food affects […]
Bloating – 7 Easy Ways to Banish It!
Bloating is that awful beast that rears its ugly head in an unavoidable form…the dreaded ‘6-month-pregnant-with-a-food-baby’ look. That’s not even to mention the discomfort and crippling pain bloating can cause – usually at the most inconvenient times (think- post lunch business meeting OR after dinner when you want to socialise). So, how can you reduce, […]
To Detox, or Not to Detox?
‘Detox’ – it’s a term loosely thrown around in the health space. Perhaps you may have heard it along with juice cleanses, detox teas, colonics and the like. But are they good for you? And will they give you the results you want? Let’s delve deeper, discover what a ‘detox’ really means, and look at […]
Are Health Supplements Really Worth the Money?
As a nutritionist, I often receive questions on health supplements, with the most common being: ‘I hate vegetables, can I just eat vitamins instead?’ This school of thought, among many others, reflects the rise of the booming health supplement industry – a global industry that is projected to be worth over USD 278 billion by […]
