Nutrition labels part one — ingredients

Nutrition labels part one — ingredients

Key takeaways:  Checking ingredients lists is just as important as looking at the nutrition panels Look for minimal ingredient lists, with recognisable words (not too many e numbers) Look for how high sugar is on the ingredient list, including words that mean sugar...
Navigating a healthy lifestyle with distractions

Navigating a healthy lifestyle with distractions

Making the decision to focus on eating healthy, increasing our exercise levels and improving our overall health and wellness is a great move. However, putting this into practice isn’t always straight forward. Every household is different, and typically there’s more...

Mindful Eating

The term mindfulness finds its’ roots in Buddhism, where complete awareness of yourself and your surroundings is required to reach enlightenment. When we speak of mindfulness in the following, it is referring to how we are aware and conscious of ourselves, our habits...
Eating for long term health and vitality

Eating for long term health and vitality

Eating for long term health and vitality Inflammation — what is it and why is it important? There are two types of inflammation that happen in our body, acute and chronic. Acute inflammation is welcome, it’s when our bodies’ immune cells migrate to a point to fix and...
Ageing well, from the inside out

Ageing well, from the inside out

Key takeaways:  Oxidants and free radicals can cause irreparable damage to our DNA and affect cell regeneration  Antioxidants scavenge the free radicals in our bodies and neutralise them so they’re no longer harmful Aim to eat vibrantly coloured fruit and veggies, and...