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More than just a front-porch decoration on Halloween, pumpkin is a nutrient-dense squash full of fibre, vitamins (namely A, C and E) and minerals. To help you incorporate more of this vegetable powerhouse into your diet, especially on your days without the Doc’s meals, the Doc has compiled 3 fantastic recipes for you to try! Pumpkin Oatmeal Pancakes These flourless pumpkin pancakes are laden with hearty oats and warming spices. Fluffy spiced flapjacks in 25 minutes! Serve with maple syrup or fresh seasonal fruit. Recipe makes 4 servings at 2 pancakes each. Nutrition (per serving): Calories: 334; Total Fat: 14g; Saturated...

For many people, it’s incredibly easy to eat without paying much attention to portion control, feelings of fullness or even flavour after the first few bites. Often, this is because we’re concentrating on other tasks — from watching TV while snacking, to eating lunch at our desks. Overeating can lead to weight gain over time, especially if you are not burning those extra calories. To combat this tendency, the Doc suggests a few simple tips that can help with weight loss but also provides many other benefits too. What is mindful eating? Mindful eating is about changing your eating habits...

When you think about the best type of workouts for weight loss, your mind might not immediately jump to strength training, but it should. While it’s definitely true that cardio workouts get your heart working harder and as a result, help your body burn calories, strength training is what’s really going to give your weight loss goals that extra boost. Strength training helps build lean muscle The experts say that aerobic exercise is effective at losing weight but not the best at burning fat and increasing lean muscle mass. So, when you’re losing weight strictly through cardio, it’s likely that you’ll lose...

The Doc’s mobile weight and health tracker APP can help slimmers lose weight and stay motivated on their health journey. This can lead to greater health benefits over time and increased weight loss Users take their measurements from body composition scales used by trained GPs to track weight, body fat, visceral fat, muscle mass, basal metabolic rate, and biological age.  The Doctor’s Kitchen Australia which offers Australia’s only Doctor prescribed weight loss meal program offers a first of its kind APP giving Australians on a weight loss mission access to track their vital biometrics through graphs and photos at the touch of an...