Articles, Nutrition
Green fruits and vegetables are coloured by natural plant pigment called “chlorophyll”. These green foods help to bring the body to an alkaline state which promotes increased energy and overall health. We currently eat so little of these foods that our health is beginning to suffer as a whole. One consequence of not eating enough green...
Articles, Nutrition
Moving on from red, the next colours in the rainbow are orange and yellow. These fruits and vegetables contain beta-carotene, potassium, flavonoids and vitamin C. Choosing these foods will beneficial to you in many ways. They lower LDL cholesterol, blood pressure, promote collagen formation and healthy joints, fight harmful free radicals, build healthy bones and...
Articles, Nutrition, Recipes, Salads
Nature provides us with an abundance of colourful food. Cooking with colourful food increases your nutrient levels because these foods are so rich in vitamins and minerals. This is a common sense trick to remember for healthy eating. The majority of us are not getting enough colour in our diet. Chips, white bread, cookies, crackers, white rice – they are all...
Articles, Nutrition
Through brilliant marketing, food corporations have us believing that Uncle Ben makes rice, Tony the Tiger makes cereal and Colonel Sanders makes chicken. Not only are these food mascots visually appealing, but their products allow us to eat whatever we want, whenever we want. We can tear open a box and “cook” traditional meals in the microwave in minutes. We can assemble...
Articles, Mindfulness
There are so many things happening around us all the time. These can be referred to as external stressors. Life throws us different situations that we have to deal with on a regular basis. If we’re feeling vulnerable or anxious on a particular day, these external events can really affect us. This leads us to...
Articles, Nutrition
Sugar is found in almost everything these days. It’s found in food we wouldn’t even think – bread, spaghetti sauce, ketchup, yogurt, mayonnaise, salad dressing, lunch meat, crackers, soup and almost all packaged food. When we ingest sugar, it’s a quick fix of energy that our body likes. At first. After a while, high sugar intake can lead to many problems...
Articles, Mindfulness, Nutrition
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”. Hippocrates Even thousands of years ago, our ancestors used food to heal their ailments. As conventional medicine progressed, we started to rely on these “potions” to fix us. Currently, most people have a full pharmacy in their medicine cabinets. We’re so quick to take a pill whenever we feel any aches...
Articles, Nutrition
Antioxidants. This is one of those words that seems to come up all the time. Someone tells us to eat a particular food because it’s “full of antioxidants”. While picking out a tea to drink, we see some labels that say “high in antioxidants”. Even juice bars are naming their smoothies with “antioxidants” as one of the words in the title. ...
Articles, Nutrition, Uncategorized
It seems like everyone is coming down with something these days. There is a bug going around which apparently debilitates victims for about 4 to 6 days. Changes of seasons often bring flus, viruses and colds. I believe that we don’t necessarily need a flu shot in order to protect ourselves from what’s to come each...
Articles, Mindfulness
Before we are fully ready to change something, it seems pointless. The sacrifice of taking time make this change always seems too overwhelming. For example, we say “I’d really love to start being more active.” Although, our hectic lives take over, the year passes and we still haven’t made a change. If we’re lucky though, there...
