THE 5 MOST POPULAR FRUITS & THEIR BENEFITS

I’m a great believer in the old adage “you are what you eat” and am particularly interested in the power of vegetables and fruit.  I found a brilliant little book recently called “the food pharmacy” by Jean Carper and thought I would share some of the information contained therein, but it is well worth a [...]

SOYA BEANS: GOOD OR BAD?

Soya beans are a species of legume native to Eastern Asia.  The Chinese cultivated them initially to use as manure, but Soya has been used as a food for some 4,000 years.  It is generally considered to be a complete source of protein, i.e., it contains significant amounts of all the essential amino acids (the [...]

RECIPES TO REDUCE WATER RETENTION

A healthy diet, full of fresh fruit and vegetables can be beneficial in many ways: from preventing some cancers and disease to helping control your weight.  These two simple recipes can help relieve water retention.
WATERFALL JUICE
Place 3 celery sticks, 3 carrots and 3 green apples through a juicer with a handful of flat parsley.  Drink [...]

TRIGGERS THAT LEAD TO WEIGHT GAIN

There are three triggers that lead us to overeating and the key to avoiding this is to identify what the trigger is and what the foods may be. 
Trigger Foods 
Trigger foods are those foods which cause you to overeat or binge on, for example, if you open
a packet of biscuits, you have to eat them all; [...]

CALORIE RESTRICTION: GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH?

By restricting your intake of calories, it may be possible to improve your health and live longer.  The people of Okinawa practice calorie restriction (CR) and are amongst the longest living people in the world.  We’re not talking starvation diets here, but a healthy, nutritious diet, low in calories.
Back in the 1930’s, researchers found that [...]

IS A MACROBIOTIC DIET HEALTHY?

Although this diet has been a way of life for some civilisations for centuries and developed in the Western world from the 1950’s, it is only recently that most of us will have heard of it on account of it’s endorsement by such celebrities as Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kelly Brook. 
The term “macrobiotic” was first [...]

AVOID DEPRESSION: FOOD AFFECTS YOUR MOOD

Much is written about the negative effects of a poor diet on your health, but what about the havoc it can wreak on your mind?  Over the past decade, mums have been frantically force feeding their children fish oils as Omega 3 is related to mood and concentration.  Ironically, I’ve seen them washed down with [...]

THE PROBLEM WITH OBESITY

Most of us are concerned about our weight from time to time, especially after Christmas or holidays when we may have over-indulged and taken very little exercise.  This is perfectly normal: I doubt that there are many people whose weight doesn’t fluctuate by some degree.
For some people though, it is much more of a problem.  [...]

BOOST YOUR METABOLISM

So you are exercising and following a reasonably healthy diet, but your whole digestive system seems to be sluggish.  Your weight seems to have reached a plateau or for those not particularly looking to lose weight, you may have put on a kilo or two.  Assuming you are otherwise in good health – no thyroid [...]

FIGHT DISEASE WITH A VEGETARIAN DIET

I went to a boarding school where, throughout our teens, we were concerned with losing weight – by any means.  For years I was more interested in avoiding what was bad rather than seeking out what was good for me.  On the whole, although my diet was reasonably healthy, the emphasis was completely wrong.  This [...]

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