Anca Vereen Integrative Dietitian, Counsellor, Nutrigenomics Lecturer

25/06/2026

another year being "voted" top 5 dietitian in melbourne

Healthy eating doesn’t have to mean bland meals and strict rules. These dietitians in Melbourne will help you keep nutrition balanced and enjoyable.

24/06/2026

That’s Australia for you !! Another reason to keep strict to organic eating!!!

Herbicide manufacturer Sygenta had reservations dating back to 1970s but regulator says tighter controls, including phasing out backpack sprayers, can protect workers

19/05/2026

A win for common sense and a step in the right direction… keep going

The Netherlands just rewrote its national dietary guidelines for the first time in a decade, and the meat industry is not going to like what they say.

The new Wheel of Five — the Dutch equivalent of America's food pyramid — caps weekly meat consumption at 300 grams, down from 500, with red meat now limited to just 100 grams a week. Daily cheese allowance has been cut in half.

To fill the gap, the guidelines now call for more than double the previous legume intake, and explicitly encourage people to swap dairy for fortified plant-based alternatives on a rotating basis.

What makes this especially significant is that the Netherlands is the first EU country to formally align its national dietary advice with 2030 climate targets — and the city of Amsterdam already banned meat advertising in public spaces this month.

01/03/2026

09/02/2026

In 1973, eight perfectly healthy people walked into psychiatric hospitals across the United States.
None of them were ill.
No one inside realized it. 🧠
This was not an accident.
It was an experiment designed by psychologist David Rosenhan to answer a disturbing question.
Can professionals reliably tell the difference between mental health and mental illness?
To find out, Rosenhan recruited eight ordinary people. A painter. A housewife. A pediatrician. A graduate student.
They lied about only one thing. They said they heard voices. Just three words. “Empty.” “Hollow.” “Thud.”
That was enough.
All eight were admitted.
The moment they entered the hospitals, they stopped pretending. They behaved normally. They cooperated. They asked to be discharged. 🚪
It never worked.
Every normal action was reinterpreted as a symptom.
Writing notes became obsessive behavior.
Waiting quietly became pathological attention seeking.
Politeness became controlled behavior consistent with illness.
Seven were diagnosed with schizophrenia.
One with manic depression.
Not a single staff member identified them as healthy.
But the patients did.
Real patients approached them and whispered, “You’re not like the others. You don’t belong here.”
Those considered ill saw what trained professionals could not.
The average stay was 19 days.
One person remained hospitalized for 52 days. ⏳
Each day reinforced the same truth. Once labeled, reality stopped mattering.
When Rosenhan published On Being Sane in Insane Places, the psychiatric world erupted. One hospital challenged him to send new pseudopatients, confident they would catch them.
Rosenhan agreed.
Over the next months, that hospital identified 41 supposed impostors.
Rosenhan had sent no one. Not a single person.
The conclusion was unavoidable.
Diagnosis was not always based on facts. It was shaped by context and expectation.
This experiment shattered blind trust in clinical labels and forced major changes in how mental illness is diagnosed and treated. But its deeper lesson still unsettles today.
Perception can distort reality more than madness itself.
And sometimes, the most dangerous illusion belongs to those who believe they cannot be wrong.

09/02/2026

🚨 Mounjaro Adverse Reactions Explode Over 300% in 2025—71 Deaths Linked—While GLP-1 Drugs Generate Tens of Billions for Pharma

New numbers released by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) through the Yellow Card Scheme show a sharp and troubling rise in problems tied to Mounjaro (tirzepatide) and similar GLP-1 drugs.

In 2025 alone:

• 40,245 reported adverse reactions—more than 300% higher than the year before

• 6,755 classified as serious

• 71 linked to deaths

For comparison, 2024 had roughly 9,153 reports and 13 fatalities.

People are reporting brutal side effects:

• intense, stabbing abdominal pain that won’t let up,

• relentless vomiting and diarrhea,
acute pancreatitis,

• gastrointestinal perforations,
blood clots,

• and in some cases a terrifying slide into septic shock and multiple organ failure.

One case that stands out: a 58-year-old nurse died from acute pancreatitis, septic shock, and multi-organ failure after receiving only two low-dose injections.

The death certificate directly pointed to Mounjaro as a contributing cause.

Drugs like Mounjaro, Ozempic, Wegovy, and the rest of the GLP-1 class are being sold hard as game-changing solutions for weight loss and diabetes.

Behind the before-and-after photos and influencer posts, the manufacturers are pulling in tens of billions each year—turning obesity into one of the most profitable medical markets ever created.

Officials still say the benefits outweigh the risks when used as approved.

But with reports climbing this fast and people dying, that line is getting harder to accept at face value.

These injections are powerful.

They change how the body works at a fundamental level, and the serious complications seem to be showing up far more often than most patients are warned about.

People deserve to know the full picture before they sign up for something this strong.

🔗 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15523195/amp/Adverse-reactions-Mounjaro-increased-300-cent-2025-fat-jab-linked-71-deaths.html

24/01/2026