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Operation Spring Clean: Making Healthy Easy

Spring is here and it's renowned for being peak time to get organised.

It's easy to clean out the garage, wardrobe and desk but have you considered the pantry, fridge and freezer? Do you stare at a cluttered fridge hoping for dinner inspiration?

LiveLighter's spring clean blog checks off some of the important healthy kitchen tips and provides spring staples for September.

Spring-sational Salads

Walnut Lentil Salad

Walnut Lentil Salad

Crunch your way through this salad - feta optional.

Mexican Corn & Tomato Salad

Mexican Corn & Tomato Salad
Fresh and crunchy mexican - Arriba, Arriba!

Thai Beef Salad

Thai Beef Salad

Fresh, light and bursting with flavour.

The Big C: Weighing up the link with cancer

Reduce your risk

Maintaining a healthy weight is an important way to reduce your risk of cancer, with being overweight linked to thirteen cancer types.

While a lot of people worry about their cancer risk, only about half of people know about the link between carrying extra weight and cancer.

Find out more about the link between excess weight and cancer and start to reduce your risk.

The best thing since sliced bread

Check out our best bread recipes

With supermarket shelves bursting with sliced bread options, we decided to find our which were really the best thing since sliced bread.

 

Dietitian Amelia featured on Today Tonight discussing best buys, those to avoid and how to use the nutrition panel to find the sliced bread best suited to your lunchbox.

Check out the results here.

This October anyone can do a marathon

This October anyone can do a Marathon

Whether you do it in 4 hours, 4 days or 4 weeks, conquer 42.2 km with the Heart Foundation's MyMarathon.

Developed to encourage you to take up the challenge and fight heart disease you can run, walk or jog. MyMarathon allows you to decide the pace and the place. Find out more here.

 

Until next time,

LiveLighter Team

Supported by Government of Western Australia - Department of Health, Heart Foundation and Cancer Council of Western Australia