The butter coffee crash If you are a health-conscious urban working Pacific Islander woman, you have most likely seen the spectacular promises of the ketogenic diet. Mainstream fitness experts, silicon valley biohackers, and social media influencers swear that cutting out carbs and loading your plate with grass-fed butter, MCT oil, and high-fat proteins is the […]
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Your internal alarm system It’s 2:00 AM. You’re wide awake, staring at the ceiling of your bedroom, and your heart is beating with a strange, subtle drift of adrenaline. You didn’t have a bad dream, and outside is completely quiet. Yet, your mind is racing like it’s the middle of the afternoon. Then, a heavy,
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The daily sugar rollercoaster If you walk into any standard urban supermarket, you are immediately surrounded by walls of white flour, polished jasmine rice, instant noodles, and refined wheat products. For a busy working woman trying to get through a demanding day, these quick, convenient carbohydrates seem like the easiest way to fuel up. You
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The sledgehammer approach to fitness We’ve all been conditioned to believe a very specific story about fitness: if you want to lose weight, shift stubborn body fat, or get healthy, you have to sweat for it. Modern urban life tells working women that our morning routine should involve a punishing, high-intensity bootcamp, a fasted five-kilometre
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Western software running on Pacific hardware Whether you’re a Hawaiian living in Los Angeles, a Māori living in Sydney, or a mix like me, a Melanesian/Caucasian living on the Gold Coast in Australia, something’s not quite right with the “expert” advice we’ve been given when it comes to healthy eating. This realisation slowly crept up
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