Healthy Lifestyle
Can We Help Our Digestion?
Eating healthy whole foods can go a long way in improving the effectiveness of our digestive tract but there are also many other factors involved in healthy digestion. Here are some of the ways you can support your own digestion system to be healthy and strong. 1. Eat your largest meal for breakfast or in middle of the day when…
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Its All in Our Bodies
When it comes to diet and nutrition, there is so much information out there telling us what to eat, when to eat, what time to eat, how to eat it etc etc. This can be very confusing for those of us who look to the experts to guide us in our dietary choices, especially when there are so many conflicting opinions about whats good…
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Anxious Much?
It seems anxiety is the buzz word these days (no pun intended) and something many of us can relate to experiencing at some point in our lives. Anxiety affects us on many levels, from a slight feeling of uneasiness, to the ‘butterflies’ in the stomach feeling and on to more extreme levels of anxiety often experienced as panic attacks, rapid…
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Wholefoods for a Healthy Gut
Following on from last weeks article Understanding Gut Health by Jesabe Warner, here are our top wholefoods for fostering a healthy gut. Slippery Elm The inner bark of the slippery elm tree is long known for its medicinal qualities and healing effect on the gut. Once slippery elm is ground into a powder and mixed with water, it becomes mucilaginous…
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Understanding Gut Health
Our gut health is the starting point when it comes to improving our energy levels. The integrity of our gut lining, the strength of the beneficial bacteria (flora) population in our gut and of course what goes in our mouth all affects our gut health and how energetic we are. Our gut lining needs to be strong, durable and full…
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10 Things You Should Know About A Wholefoods Diet
Healthy Lifestyle, Our Wholefoods Kitchen
Our Top Ten Wholefoods to Keep you Healthy this Winter
One of the best ways to keep healthy throughout the cooler months of winter is through our diet. Eating a wholefoods diet supports us year round, but is particularly beneficial in times when our bodies immune system may be compromised as it is when we are exposed to cooler temperatures for long periods of time. Of course, we cannot say…
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Affordable Wholefoods Raises the Bar on Sustainability
After our experience with Cyclone Debbie and the impact of the floods on the Lismore community, we have been reflecting on our own position with sustainability within the store. Personally we saw so much waste from the flood, nothing in the store could be salvaged in keeping with hygiene, health and safety regulations. So every tub, every container, every-thing went…
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The Bigger Picture: Why Eating Wholefoods is Better for your Body & the Planet
A wholefoods way of living supports us in so many ways, and in a time where we are witnessing much environmental and resource depletion it is certainly showing us there is a need to take more care with our food choices and our environment. By choosing wholefoods over processed foods we can all individually contribute to minimising the damage to…
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A Foolproof Recipe for Greater Vitality
Our gut health is the starting point when it comes to improving our energy levels. The integrity of our gut lining, the strength of the beneficial bacteria (flora) population in our gut and of course what goes in our mouth all affects our gut health and how energetic we are. Our gut lining is made up of of tiny finger-like…
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