Authenticity Health & Wellness Retreat and Day Spa

"Let food be your medicine and medicine your food"
HIPPOCRATES

The style of our cuisine is light and tasty with a colourful Mediterranean feel full of healthy goodness and freshness.We use a bountiful variety of organic and bio dynamic fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds, nuts, legumes, herbs, spices, virgin olive oils and dairy products from Bd-farm Paris Creek.

The cuisine has been carefully blended by our Naturopath/Chef who combines each vegetarian meal to be completely nutritional and balanced for optimum health and well-being whilst also creating a gourmet experience to delight your palate.

Our philosophy is like that of the ancient Greeks in that food is and must be treated as the highest form of art. Food not only stimulates and involves our senses of taste, touch, sight and smell, it also elevates our body and soul. Which is why food is always involved in our communion with each other and celebrations of life.

“Authenticity presents ‘Vegetarian Organic’ or ‘Biodynamic Mediterranean’ but, labels aside, it is fresh and healthy food served with a clever twist” ttTHE AUSTRALIAN

Even if you are not staying at Authenticity or enjoying the Day Spa facilities you can explore this unique cuisine by booking some of the limited seating we make available for lunches and dinners to the general public. What better way to come and experience our unique ambiance and get and appreciation for our product and services?

“A stylish destination offering naturopathic consultation, health and beauty treatments, gentle exercise, relaxation and excellent food.” ttGOURMET TRAVELLER

Diet Principles

Food is the main source of our daily energy and one cannot dismiss the importance of good nutrition and nourishment through an informed scientific eating regime.

The common saying 'You are what you eat' stands to reason. Today with all the technology and data available we have been able to trace and cross-link the underlying causes of disease and well being to cultural and social eating patterns.

For example, the European Commission on Nutrition in a conference at the Italian National Research Council in Rome, concluded that high olive oil consumption in the Mediterranean region contributes to the low incidence of cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes, and obesity in these countries.

In 1992 similar facts arrived from another conference of Nutritionists, this time from Harvard University USA, which recognised the relative health advantages of the traditional Mediterranean diet and its value in the prevention of cancers, a disease much experienced in the modern world far removed from its agricultural roots.

Well before all technology could provide us with scientific data, a Greek physician, Hippocrates (400BC), knew the importance and value of correct nutrition and diet and urged the citizens to treat food as medicine.