Dee Pigneguy and Tamarin Pigneguy

Mother and daughter team Dee and Tamarin Pigneguy, have come together to share their passion for health, nutrition and wellbeing to create Feed Me Right!

The drive behind this book comes from their belief in the importance of education and providing people with factual information about their amazing bodies and food in a fun and exciting way enabling them to make informed and empowering choices. 

Tamarin is a healthcare practitioner with her own clinic in Whangaparaoa, Auckland. As a graduate in Applied Science, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture from the Australian College of Natural Medicine, Tamarin did two years post-graduate work at the An Tam Healing Centre, London, UK and at the Glostrup Maternity Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

With over 10 years clinical experience in general practice using acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, and nutrition in helping people to restore their health and regain wellbeing, Tamarin understands the importance education plays in assisting people in taking responsibility to make better health and lifestyle choices.

Today at her own clinic, trading as Urban Remedy Ltd Health Care Clinic, Tamarin's specialty in treating women’s health, pregnancy and children has given her a unique insight into the direct link between a mother's nutrition and its effect on the health of her baby. In her practice she has seen a growing demand for basic health resources for children and adults alike to learn about the essential functions of their amazing bodies.

Tamarin also sees within her general practice the growing link between people's modern day lives of eating fast foods and easy snacks, often on the run, decreased activity, and increased stress levels with the declining state of people's health. She is having considerable success through correcting her patients' nutrition, and is increasingly giving public talks to help raise public awareness on this topic. 

Dee Pigneguy came to New Zealand from Canada in 1963 and trained as a primary school teacher.  Her interest in nutrition, healthy food and healthy bodies developed as she grew up on a remote coastal property in British Columbia.  Her mother, Joan Donley, engaged all her children in their self sufficient lifestyle - growing vegetables and fruit, raising pigs, chickens and ducks, and milking goats.  At low tide they gathered clams and oysters and often went fishing.

Dee's first book Saltwater In Her Hair - Stories of New Zealand Women at Sea was published in 2000.  This was a result of the 16 years she spent with her husband operating the historic (1909) vessel Te Aroha on the Hauraki Gulf.  Dee was well known for the nutritious and tasty meals she produced from the Te Aroha's small galley.

In collaboration with her husband Mike she wrote Boating Fun published in 2004 by Reed Publishers. The first printing of Boating Fun, a book designed to banish boating boredom has nearly sold out. More Boating Fun by Mike and Dee Pigneguy was published in 2007.

Dee teaches organic gardening classes from her organic home garden and works part time at the Soil and Health Office, publishers of OrganicNZ. On behalf of Soil & Health she is often asked to speak to school children, gardening clubs and Rotary Clubs about organic garden and nutritional know-how.   

Dee is a member of Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi and often guides groups visiting the island.  She has also served as Chairperson of the North Shore Herb Society and the Auckland and North Shore Herb Societies, and writes articles for OrganicNZ, Professional Skipper, and occasionally Memories Magazine. 

Paperback | 210 x  270mm |  79 pages | ISBN 978-0-9582806-2-4 | March 2007 | Teens, young adults, teachers and parents