Lifestyle & Wellness

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” Deepak Chopra

Here you will find a centre of Health and Wellness ideas and strategies. We can start off your day with our balanced WBC Cereal and then help you stay on track with motivating information from our wide range of health specialists.

YOU can choose your own path – healthy, glowing skin, weight loss, exercise program and we will stand beside you.
Our WBC Philosophy is about being the best you can – be natural, don’t cut corners and love every day!

WBC TALKS BREAKFAST
AND THE BREAKFAST CEREAL
HOW IT CAN ADD YEARS TO YOUR LIFE
TAKE YEARS OFF YOUR FACE
WEIGHT OFF YOUR HIPS

Breakfast is considered by many dieticians, naturopaths and parents as the most important meal of the day. It should kick-start your digestive system into top gear to provide terrific nutrients for energy and well-being.
Our WBC Cereal is a computer program for your body – it reads your data and then goes to work to set up your day. This low Glycemic Index (GI) breakfast cereal can give you sustained energy all morning!
Grains, fruits, nuts and seeds have always been in fashion because Nature’s program works with them to create optimum health – so we just went with them too!Totally natural, gluten free and dairy free, it is a powerpack combination.
Breakfast is back! Great news for your body and mind. Modern times saw the decline of this major meal as families rushed away instead of enjoying the leisurely and large breakfasts of earlier days.
Breakfast can be a time for creating a harmonious start – sitting and enjoying the sights, smells and pleasures of the early day.

Breakfast used to be for the very rich – the poor often had no chairs or tables for leisure. They would often sit on the door-step – hence the name of the ‘doorstop’ loaf’. They generally died from mal-nutrition.
Breakfast is your energy platform for the whole day.
Breakfast has to be made from good things to do good things! Too much sugar or ‘empty’ food just gives you a burst of energy, then followed by tiring dips and loss of ‘get-up-and-go.’

A VISUAL BREAKFAST IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL
Take time to set an attractive table. Put our good-looking cereal into a special bowl,add a vase of flowers and play soothing music. Your eyes, ears and soul will thank you for the interlude.

CHAMPION BREAKFAST HINTS
If you are training or exercising in the morning, breakfast will help you bounce back after your session and keep you trim all day. Loading up on ‘empty’ carbs to rev up when your sugar levels dip means you’ll need to double-up your work-out next day!

HISTORY OF THE BREAKFAST CEREAL
The first modern and commercial cereal foods were created by the American Seventh-day Adventists. The Adventists formed the Western Health Reform Institute in the 1860s. The Institute was later renamed the Battle Creek Sanitarium after its location in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Adventists manufactured, promoted, and sold wholesome cereals  such as wheat, rice, rye, oats, barley, corn (maize), and sorghum.

Will Keith Kellogg was the founder of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, founded in 1906. In 1894, Kellogg was trying to improve the diet of hospital patients. He was searching for a digestible bread substitute using the process of boiling wheat. Kellogg accidentally left a pot of boiled wheat to stand and the wheat became tempered. When Kellogg rolled the tempered or softened wheat and let it dry, each grain of wheat emerged as a large thin flake. The flakes turned out to be a tasty cereal. Kellogg had invented corn flakes!
Many other inventors took up the call to create a satisfying ‘grain’ type breakfast cereal. Names such as ‘Granoloa’,'All Bran’ and ‘Corn Flakes’ still sit on the breakfast table today. Perhaps not in the same form as those early days.

Bircher Muesli – the iconic breakfast recipe

“ Bircher -müesli” was invented by Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner (1867-1939), a pioneer of the biological health medicine and ‘whole’ foods.
Dr. Bircher was active in Zürich and he had a great impact on our feeding habits. Around 1900, he suggested that cereals, fruits and vegetables are more valuable food than meat, but his colleagues did not agree with his points of view. But even if the public opinion did not follow his ideas, he had more faith in his own experiences than the current doctrine.
While at that time meat was regarded as the best suited and most valuable food for humans, vegetables and fruits were considered food of the poor people. But Dr. Bircher continued to believe in what he called “food of the sunlight”, meals based on biological, natural ingredients. He created a recipe which is known today worldwide as “Birchmüesli”. He was also convinced that health care should be much more than just medical treatments. In 1897, Dr. Bircher founded a sanatory in Zürich, where his famous muesli breakfast was served everyday.

For more information on healthy living and how to get started, or make those goals you’ve always dreamed of putting into action, here are some websites we highly recommend:
www.mindbodylife.com.au
www.112daychallenge.com
www.healthykids.nsw.gov.au/active
www.healthykids.nsw.gov.au
www.chopra.com