Many large studies have shown that engaging in regular physical activity can reduce your risk of developing breast cancer.It also decreases the risk of recurrence in those who have already been treated for breast cancer. Compared to women who are inactive, those who exercise for 3-4 hours a week can reduce their risk by 20-30%.

Exercise can range from moderately intense activities such as brisk walking to vigorous activity such as jogging, tennis, gym workouts and other aerobic exercise.

• The World Health Organisation recommends that adults should do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity throughout the week or do at least 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity throughout the week or an equivalent combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity activity.

Regular exercise also improves emotional well-being.It can reduce stress levels, help you sleep and enhance your quality of life. If you find it difficult to fit an exercise routine into your schedule or you lack motivation, it may help to join a class or persuade a friend to exercise with you. You can also try to incorporate extra activities into your daily life:

Choose to walk or bike instead of driving

Take the stairs instead of the lift

Park further away from your destination and walk

Go for a brisk walk or swim during your lunch break

Using a pedometer may help you monitor your activity levels and help you to set targets.

Regular exercise helps you to maintain a healthy weight and can reduce the levels of estrogen, insulin and insulin-like growth factors in your body. These substances all contribute to the growth of breast cancer cells.

Published by Breast Cancer Foundation NZ see their website for more information- http://www.breastcancerfoundation.org.nz

These days it is so hard to understand ingredients in products we consume every day due to the fact that ingredients are hidden in funny names we do not understand or clever marketing phrases that can mislead us to think that the ingredients are healthier.

Sugars are one of the bad ingredients all of us want to cut from our diets. You would first need to identify them to be able to cut them out.

There are so many different sugars and different names, so no better way than just to scoop into this sugar pot: 

Agave nectar is a sweetener commercially produced from several species of agave, including Agave Tequilana (blue agave) and Agave Salmiana. Agave syrup is sweeter than honey and tends to be less viscous. Most agave syrup comes from Mexico and South Africa.

Blackstrap molasses is the dark, viscous molasses that remain after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane. It has the consistency of a thick syrup, as the third boiling of sugar syrup yields blackstrap molasses. This concentrated byproduct is left over after the sugar's sucrose has been crystallized.

Natural cane sugar is made from sugar cane, while conventional white granulated sugar may be made from either cane or sugar beets. Since both plants produce molecules of sucrose that are identical, this is not a significant distinction.

Confectioner’s sugar: Powdered sugar and confectioners sugar are the same things. What's Cooking America speculates that the terms are simply regional preferences and points out that in England and Canada, powdered sugar is called icing sugar. It's also sometimes called 10X, which refers to how fine it is.

Icing Sugar: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow.

Date sugar is one of those rare sugars that is pretty much what you’d expect- ground, dried dates. Some date sugar has a small amount of oat flour added to help prevent clumping. One of the most frustrating things about date sugar is its ability to form into one solid brick. It’s sweet, but not as sweet as cane sugar, light tan in colour and granulated.

Diastatic malt is a grain which has been sprouted, dried and grounded into a powder. By sprouting the grain (often wheat or barley), letting the grain grow into a small sprout, you activate the enzymes inside the grain. These active enzymes (diastase) release sugars from the flour/starch which help to grow your yeast.

Florida Crystals Natural Cane Sugar is a versatile, golden-tan, granulated sugar that can be used just like white refined sugar.

Galactose is a simple sugar found in milk. It is a monosaccharide (a simple carbohydrate), meaning that it is made up of only one sugar molecule. It is however rarely found in nature or in foods, as it is commonly found linked to glucose, forming the disaccharide lactose.

Golden Syrup, it is often claimed to be a healthier alternative to sugar but the way I see it, agave syrup is still refined and no more healthy than maple syrup or golden syrup. Both still contain the same level of sugars and have gone through a similar process of filtering, boiling, and reduction.

Refiner's (a.k.a. “Golden”) Syrup: Refiner's syrup (also called “golden syrup”) is made, as the name implies, at a sugar refinery, not at the sugar mill which is where molasses is produced. It's a by-product of the making of white sugar, the final “molasses” that are produced when white sugar is centrifuged.

Maltodextrin: The additive is mixed with a number of foods as a thickening agent, similar to the way corn syrup and sugars are added. Maltodextrin, however, does not have a sweet taste. Its unique chemical makeup makes it ideal for adding to foods. Those with celiac disease who should avoid foods with gluten should restrict intake of foods made with certain types of maltodextrin.

Muscovado: Also Khandsari and Khand, is a type of partially refined to unrefined sugar with a strong molasses content and flavour. It is technically considered either a non-centrifugal cane sugar or a centrifuged, partially refined sugar according to the process used by the manufacturer.

Barbados sugar: An unrefined sugar or raw sugar made from the juice of sugar cane. Dark brown in colour, Barbados sugar is fine-grained and soft-textured similar to brown sugar, providing a distinctively strong flavour when added to foods.

Demerara (pronounced Dem-err-rar-rar) sugar is a rare and exotic sugar sourced from plantations scattered across the globe.Coffee connoisseur’s regard this as one of the finest sugars to compliment the flavour of coffee.Demerara can be used to replace white or raw in most recipes but comes into its own creating tantalising toppings for delicacies like Crème Brulee or caramelized grilled fruit.

Diastase is an enzyme group that is originally found in malt and it is produced when the germination of the seeds happens. Diastase transforms starch into maltose and after that, it converts it this into glucose.

Fructose, or fruit sugar: is a simple ketonic monosaccharide found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide, sucrose. It is one of the three dietary monosaccharides, along with glucose and galactose, that are absorbed directly into blood during digestion.

Glucose comes from the Greek word for "sweet." It's a type of sugar you get from foods you eat, and your body uses it for energy. As it travels through your bloodstream to your cells, it's called blood glucose or blood sugar. Insulin is a hormone that moves glucose from your blood into the cells for energy and storage.

Grape sugar - another name for dextrose.

Inverted or invert sugar is a mixture of glucose and fructose; it is obtained by splitting sucrose into these two components. The mixture is sold as a viscous liquid and is often referred to as Trimoline or invert syrup. Compared to sucrose, inverted sugar is sweeter and its products (glucose and fructose) tend to retain moisture and are less prone to crystallization.

Maltose: When long chains of sugars, such as starches, are broken down in the gastrointestinal tract, smaller sugars, including maltose, are generated. Although maltose is a small sugar, it is actually made of two smaller glucose sugars. Maltose is a bit too big for people to absorb, so your body must break it down into glucose in order to transport it to other parts of the body for use as fuel and for storing energy.

Raw sugar isn't even really raw. It's just slightly less refined, so it retains some of the molasses. But there's no real health real benefit from it. There's no more nutritional value in raw sugar than there is in white sugar or brown sugar.

Rice syrup: Also known as rice syrup or rice malt, is a sweetener which is rich in compounds categorized as sugars and is derived by culturing cooked rice starch with saccharifying enzymes to break down the starches, followed by straining off the liquid and reducing it by evaporative heating until the desired consistency is reached. The enzymes used in the saccharification step are supplied by an addition of sprouted barley grains to the rice starch (the traditional method) or by adding bacterial- or fungal-derived purified enzyme isolates (the modern, industrialized method).

Treacle is any uncrystallized syrup made during the refining of sugar. The most common forms of treacle are golden syrup, a pale variety, and a darker variety known as black treacle. Black treacle, or molasses, has a distinctively strong, slightly bitter flavour, and a richer colour than golden syrup.

Barley malt is made from sprouted barley. It's thick, dark, and has a mellow malt flavour. It's a favourite of health food companies because it's considered a slow-digesting sweetener. It also has half the sweetness of refined sugar, so it's great to use in your own kitchen and to make bread, sauces, veggie dishes, and, of course, home-brewed beer. To see how it compares to sugar

Carob (Ceratonia siliqua) is the fruit of the carob tree and grows as long, slightly curved, thick, dark brown pods anywhere from 4-10 inches (10-25 cm) in length. From a nutritional standpoint, carob is rich in a number of vitamins and minerals but is known to be particularly high in calcium.  Being a member of the legume family it is a source of protein and contains a substantial amount of dietary fiber.  Throughout history, carob has been used as a digestive aid and was traditionally used to soothe an upset stomach.Carob contains some antioxidants, mostly in the form of polyphenols.  It has alkalizing effects on body pH and in certain cultures, it is considered to be an aphrodisiac.

Dextran: It has found industrial application in food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries as adjuvant, emulsifier, carrier and stabilizer. In the food, industry dextran is currently used as a thickener for jam and ice-cream. It prevents crystallization of sugar, improves moisture retention and maintains flavour and appearance of various food items.

Dextrose is the name of a simple sugar that is made from corn and is chemically identical to glucose, or blood sugar. Dextrose is often used in baking products as a sweetener and can be commonly found in items such as processed foods and corn syrup.Because dextrose is a “simple” sugar, the body can quickly use it for energy.

Ethyl Maltol E637 is an ideal food additive. It can be used as a good flavouring agent in tobacco, food, beverages, essence, wine, cosmetics. It enhances the flavour of food and increases the sweetness effects of food. It is also used in bakery products, chocolates, chewing gums, cocoa products, coffee, tea and herbal infusions. Side effects at high doses include hepato-renal dysfunction and acute hemolysis. It acts as an antioxidant too and is thus anti-aging, anti-cancerous and is good for a healthy heart.

Lactose: t is a sugar composed of galactose and glucose. Lactose makes up around 2–8% of milk (by weight). The name comes from lac (gen. lactis), the Latin word for milk, plus the suffix -"ose" used to name sugars. The compound is a white, water-soluble, non-hygroscopic solid with a mildly sweet taste.

Panocha: Cane sugar manufactured by a crude milling process/a sweet Filipino delicacy made from sugar cane.

Sweet sorghum is any of the many varieties of the sorghum grass whose stalks have a high sugar content. Sweet sorghum thrives better under drier and warmer conditions than many other crops and is grown primarily for forage, silage, and syrup production. Although in most of the United States the term molasses refers to a sweet syrup, made as a byproduct of sugarcane or sugar beet sugar extraction, sweet sorghum syrup is known as "sorghum molasses" in some regions of the U.S.

Turbinado sugar: A popular name for this sugar is “sugar in the raw.” Turbinado sugar is from pure cane sugar extract. The term turbinado comes from the technique used in the making of this sugar. The sugar is spun in a cylinder or turbine. Turbinado sugar is brown looking like brown sugar but paler in colour with a subtle molasses flavour.

Molasses, or black treacle (British, for human consumption; known as molasses otherwise), is a viscous product resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. Molasses varies by the amount of sugar, a method of extraction, and age of the plant. Sugarcane molasses is agreeable in taste and aroma, and is primarily used for sweetening and flavouring foods in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere, while sugar beet molasses is foul-smelling and unpalatable, so it is mainly (mostly) used as an animal feed additive in Europe and Russia, where it is chiefly produced. Molasses is a defining component of fine commercial brown sugar.

Sucrose is common table sugar. It is a disaccharide, a molecule composed of the two monosaccharides, glucose, and fructose. Sucrose is produced naturally in plants, from which table sugar is refined. For human consumption, sucrose is extracted, and refined, from either sugar cane or sugar beet.

Now that you know what sugars are named it will be much easier to cut them out or just to identify them.

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We have launched our new cookie, the Clever cookie ™. We’ve called it our Clever Cookie™ because it’s the smarter choice, the healthier choice for your lunchbox snack, or teatime option, even a guilt-free midnight indulgence. The Clever Cookie ™ also provides a good option for our friends suffering from diabetes or sugar related illnesses, as it has no added sugars.

We’ve set our aim at the average Jack and Jill that still longs for the taste of a homemade cookies’ taste and crunch, but wants to be smarter about their sugar intake. We’ve stripped the nasty sugars away, but loaded it with protein goodness while retaining the addictive crunch. While this one might not be for our celiac sufferers, our Clever Cookie™ still offers way more than just the average cookie, that’s why we’ve named it so aptly, the Clever Cookie ™.

Replace your everyday cookie that puts you on a sugar rush, with one that sustains you with protein power and has amazing low carbs compared to the other cookies. Go on, buy a cookie and feel the crunch, and while you're at it compare the label with your everyday cookie, it really is healthier!

Make the smart choice and try one!

Happy New Year from Justine's team!

365 new days and new pages to fill with great memories and goals. At Justine’s cookies, we are all about goals and helping you to achieve these goals in 2018.

We all have new years resolutions each year that fail. With our delicious healthy cookies, there is no way your 2018 weight losing resolution will not be achieved!

At Justine’s Cookies, we believe that eating healthy should be a lifestyle and achievable. Who can live without cookies and delicious desserts? Definitely not us!

Ditch the diets with cardboard for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. YOLO! Eat healthy cookies and enjoy the rest of your 365 days of a healthy lifestyle that is achievable.

2018 the year we are going to fulfill our new year's resolutions.

Happy New Year

Justine and the team.

Look out for Justine’s Cookies new freshly baked look. We have turned the heat in our ovens to high with our new hot look!

Justine’s sits on a sweet spot, of providing consumers of all kinds, whether they have dietary restrictions or are just super active, health-conscious and hungry, with what we call #GuiltFreeIndulgence. With our products we can promise you that they are Ultra Low Carb, High in Protein, Calcium and Fibre, Wheat, Gluten, and Sugar Free.

At Justine’s, we have always strived to create smart snacks that are both delicious and nutritious. Constantly working on our formulae, our R&D has managed to make our healthy cookie, even more healthier. This change gave us an opportunity to uplift our packaging, we decided to go with a much more cleaner face to ensure the packaging reflects the freshness of our product while maintaining the vibrancy of our flavours through the bright colours. We are a happy product and that reflects in our colours.

2017 has been a great year for Justine’s Cookies, and there is no better way to celebrate our achievements with a great new look.We close 2017 with a bang, and anticipate many more stirring things ahead with more great bakes for 2018.

Sorry, I know Almond is not a Nut, but I couldn't resist.

Did you know, wild almond species are toxic and only the domesticated almonds are not and that a common genetic mutation causes an absence of amygdalin. Cool right?

We wanted to put together a list of benefits of this wonderful seed.

The almond is a nutritionally dense food and a 100 gram amount is a rich source (>20% of the Daily value, DV) of the B vitamins.

These dry fruits also contain two vital brain nutrients, riboflavin and niacin, which have been shown to increase brain activity, resulting in new neural pathways and a decreased occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease.

It also is rich in vitamin E, Vitamin E's ability to fight free radicals also makes almonds a great post-workout snack because they help in muscle recovery, according to Jeff Volek, PhD.

Along with the essential minerals, It also contains calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, and zinc. Ranging benefits from assisting With Blood Sugar Control, lowering blood pressure levels,

The same amount is also a good source (10–19% DV) of the B vitamins thiamine, vitamin B6, and folate; choline; and the essential mineral potassium.

They are also rich in dietary fiber, monounsaturated fats, and polyunsaturated fats, fats which potentially may lower LDL cholesterol. A 16-week study in 65 pre-diabetic subjects found that a diet with 20% of calories from almonds lowered LDL cholesterol levels by an average of 12.4 mg/dL **

Typical of nuts and seeds, almonds also contain phytosterols such as beta-sitosterol, stigmasterol, campesterol, sitostanol, and campestanol, which have been associated with cholesterol-lowering properties.***

It is because of all these reasons, Almond powder is a large part of our Secret Protein Blend.

If you’d like to know more about what goes into our flagship Choc Chip Protein cookie, click here.

*For more information on almond oil for hair growth, see this link www.hairlossrevolution.com/almond-oil-for-hair-growth-results

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond

**https://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/almonds-nutrition-facts

***https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/seed-and-nut/health-benefits-of-almonds.html

If you are the type that loves reading lifestyle magazines, you would’ve surely heard about ‘minimalism’ recently. Minimalism may be a new buzzword but it has been a natural way of life in many eastern and Asian cultures. It is only just making its presence felt strongly in the developed, western world where consumerism is higher than Mount Everest!

An Otago University study into consumer attitudes and choices running for over three decades has identified a marked increase in the numbers of consumers who make buying decisions based on their impact on the environment and other people. They believe less is more across all aspects of their life…including food.

Today we live a big part of our life online and are guilty of scrolling mindlessly through our social media feed, and ogling over pictures of food. 'Food porn' is a thing. Wikipedia describes food porn as glamourised, spectacular visual presentation of food and exotic dishes that arouse a desire to eat or glorification of food as a substitute for sex.

So what is this ‘minimalism’ thing and how can it help? In a very short and clichéd (clichés are often true…by the way) answer, it’s a way of life. It means living an uncomplicated, clutter-free and fulfilling life and letting go of excess in our homes, our lives, our relationships, or even our emotional baggage. It encourages us to make mindful choices and avoid overconsumption.

Minimalism in food suggests treating food as just food, not entertainment. Contrary to what the name suggests, it is not about deprivation or eating less.  Neither does it suggest turning into a vegetarian, or vegan or following any diet or fad! It doesn't mean you can't enjoy food, share the joy of eating in the company of loved ones, bond over food on festivals and special occasions. ‘

It simply means to not turn to food to fill a void, or to comfort ourselves when we are feeling down. It means to avoid mindless bingeing on high-calorie, unhealthy, sugary and salty food while mindlessly bingeing on Netflix. It’s about being aware of what goes into our mouth.

Food's sole purpose is to nourish our mind and body, to fuel our daily activities and to keep us healthy. Minimalism suggests eating only those foods that are as close to their natural state as possible. It suggests avoiding over processed, tinned and altered food.

It suggests simplifying our relationship with food and making easy of our hectic life. You don’t have to feel the pressure of making exotic, time-consuming recipes, buying exotic foods or ‘super foods’ or following any kind of diet either. Minimalism encourages us to make uncomplicated meals so cooking time is not stressful and we can enjoy things that are locally grown and readily available.

You can get started my making small changes in your food habits today!

Will you cut your arm if someone offered you a million dollars for it? Will you trade a disease for a beach villa? 

Hell, no.

If not health, what’s the most important thing in life? Another cliché that is true is: health is wealth! 

Yet how often do we take our health for granted. We procrastinate exercising, eat mindlessly and forget that our body is our most important asset, one that we will need till our last breath.

Our minimalistic lifestyle can lend itself to our minimalistic health routine too. We often start out with a big bang; spend on that gym membership, yoga mat, exercise ball, exercise bike, or those new sports shoes. But then fizzle out soon enough in a few weeks because we set lofty goals that seem unattainable, can’t keep up with it or because we are too busy (Does this sound like you?).

You don’t necessarily need to spend money to get fit. To get healthy the minimalistic way, we just need three things:

1. A willingness and a right mind set (that’s half the battle won right there)
2. 20-30 minutes of time 4-5 times a week (not a great feat, if the busiest people in the world can find time, so can we)
3. A habit of mindful eating

Start small, for free. Set out 20-30 minutes for brisk walking. Free floor exercises, yoga, running, playing a sport you enjoy are some ways in which you can get your exercise, it doesn’t have to be complicated.

And diet doesn’t have to be expensive either. Just cut down all the sugary soda drinks, and replace them with more water, green juices, or teas. Reduce eating processed food and eat more whole foods. Be more mindful of the things you eat when you are stressed. What are you reaching for? Cakes, cookies, or that bag of chips? Replace them with healthier alternatives like whole grain slice of toast with any nut butter of your choice, whole fruits, nuts and seeds. 

But most importantly, enjoy the process and have fun with it all. Don’t be too strict on yourself either. Let yourself enjoy all the things you love once in a while. Form sustainable habits.

What are some of the long-term health benefits of minimalist health care routine?

• Less anxiety
• Less stress
• More calm and peace
• Clarity of mind
• More time to enjoy and do things at your pace
• Self-confidence
• You’ll keep your weight consistent depending on your exercise and diet
• And, more money in your bank (all that saving)

Minimalists Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, who have helped over 20 million people live meaningful lives with less say, “That’s the point of this entire [minimalistic lifestyle] journey [was to] to strip away the superfluous so we can focus on what’s important: our health.”

Minimalism has been the buzz word for a while now and we thought about writing a 3 part series on what it means to us and how we can introduce it into our lives. The first of the series is;

Minimalism in kitchen

Raise your hand if you are guilty of buying unnecessary kitchen appliances and ‘useful’ kitchen gadgets?

That vegetable spiralizer that you bought thinking you will make zoodles and salads every day? But used it a total of 1.5 times?

That juicer?

That panini maker? That stand mixer?

Wait…that waffle maker that you can’t be bothered to heat for 20 minutes before you make one waffle?

That bread maker you bought thinking all the bread you will make in your life time but only used twice?

Garlic press? Mandolins? Apple slicer? A dozen different kinds of peelers? Pasta maker? Ice cream maker? 

Multiple sets of glasses, cutlery, bowls, plates?

Do we really need these many items or gadgets in our kitchen? We can do with a few basics: two very good knives and a good bullet blender will do the job too. Imagine all the space you can save!

The commercials, cooking shows and advertisements may give you an impression that to be a good cook you need all those fancy things. The reality is if you suck at cooking, you suck at cooking because you haven’t practiced enough or you aren’t passionate enough. If all the fancy appliances could make us all wonderful Michelin star cooks, then all the fancy restaurants will have gone out of business by now.

The main use of having a minimalist kitchen is having a clutter-free space, freeing up counter spaces, and having more surface area to work on. Clutter can lead to stress and make cooking feel like a chore rather than an enjoyable social experience. Constantly having to juggle for space and struggling to find where things are in kitchen can add to the pressure we experience while cooking and make kitchen feel like an unwelcome space.

In a nutshell, minimalism in kitchen is reducing your clutter and managing with less number of things. It means questioning each and every item in your kitchen and understanding what purpose it is solving. 

There are simple ways in which you can get started. Don’t buy junk kitchen tools from dollar store. Don’t buy fancy gadgets that you would probably just use once. And donate and dispose things that don’t serve any purpose in your kitchen. 

Put some music on and enjoy your cooking time in kitchen!