The importance of staying regular

products such as white bread, pastries, or cakes, switch to a wholemeal flour, and replace your sweet treats with fruit. You can add soluble fibre to your diet, by including ground flaxseed, oat bran, psyllium husk, slippery elm powder, and pectin.

Support the bowel microbiome

The beneficial bacteria in your colon feed on vegetable fibre. The best way to improve the balance of gut bacteria is to eat a wide variety of fruit and vegetables, covering all the colours of the rainbow. Fermented foods can be a great addition to improve your bowel microbiome. These foods include yogurt, kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, miso soup, and kimchi.

Exercise

Daily exercise such as walking can help to stimulate the bowels; aim to move your body daily.

When nothing is moving

For extra support, try chamomile tea, bitter green leafy vegetables or prunes to stimulate bowel movement. When all else fails, herbal laxatives are much more gentle than conventional ones, you can get these at a health food shop or from a naturopath.

Whole Naturopathy can help provide you with natural products and dietary advice to keep your bowels moving regularly as well as treating any issues that may arise as a result of constipation.

This advice is general in nature and not intended to be prescriptive. For individualised prescriptive advice, please see a naturopath or other health care practitioner.

Kathryn Messenger

BHSc (Naturopathy) kathryn@wholenaturopathy.com.au

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Mountain Gate Shopping Centre

Ferntree Gully, Victoria

Accountant

By Warren Strybosch

The ATO is increasing its data matching program to now include residential investment property loans. The ATO will be specifically looking at account details, balances, commencement and end dates, as well as transaction details and property addresses.

The ATO has advised that it will acquire residential investment property loan data from authorised financial institutions under a data-matching program for 2021-22 through to 2025-26.

We anticipate the ATO will be reviewing the data to make sure no personal transactions had taken place and to confirm the whole loan is related to the investment property. If the ATO finds transactions are personal in nature and this has resulted in the loan being greater than what it should have otherwise been if the debt only related to the investment property e.g., the investment loan has been increased as some funds were used to renovate their owners principal residence, the ATO could potentially treat the whole