Healthy Lifestyle
Almond Nut Milk
Making your own nut milk can be a lot of fun and is extremely nutritious, not to mention without the added preservatives that some store bought varieties put in for better shelf life. You can make nut milk out of just about any nut but there are a few varieties that are more popular owing to their flavour. It takes…
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Nigella : The missing spice in your kitchen
Image: The delicate Nigella flower comes is many shades of blue and purple Nigella sativa is a plant native to Southern Asia that produces tiny and richly flavoursome jet black seeds. Nigella seeds are known by many other names including black cumin, black caraway, black coriander and Kalongi or Kalonji. These seeds are a popular spice in many cultures including…
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Top 5 Tips to Save Time on Dinner
Often it is the evenings when we have less energy to cook and would rather be relaxing. This might mean that spending time making a healthy dinner may not always be a top priority. Whether its because you don’t have much spare time to spend in the kitchen or maybe you just simply want to short-cut your way to eating…
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Affordable Wholefoods meets Nude Nutritionist Lyndi Cohen
When we first stumbled upon Lyndi Cohen; Nude Nutritionist and Chanel 9 TV Dietition, we fell in love with her playful and relaxed approach to dieting. Lyndi doesn’t hide the fact that she has struggled with her weight in the past and shares openly in her blogs and with her clients how she discovered a way of eating that naturally…
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Protein: Building a Strong and Healthful Body
Image: The word protein is derived from the Greek word ‘protieos’ meaning first. Hercules (pictured above) was a Greek divine hero famous for his strength and his numerous far-ranging adventures. Our bodies are made up of around a hundred thousand different types of protein. After water, it is the most abundant molecule in the body. This precious nutrient is…
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Water: Life’s Precious Ingredient
We all know we must drink water to survive, but what does it actually do for us and what happens when we don’t drink enough? Water plays many roles in the body from energy production to maintaining cellular health and when we are dehydrated our body can suffer in a multitude of ways. Dehydration is a state of water deficiency…
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Vitamin C: More Than Just for Colds
Vitamin C is most popularly known as the go-to anti-oxidant for the flu and common cold. However, it has many other lesser known but powerful roles in the body than just boosting the immune system. Our happy brain chemicals, the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin depend on Vitamin C for their synthesis. Not only do these two provide us with good…
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Sugar and Anxiety: Forever Friends
Anxiety is a very common health condition that can be either supported or exacerbated by the food we eat. In recent times, avoiding sugar and choosing a diet rich in wholefoods has become a leading recommendation by health professionals as part of the treatment for anxiety. It is important to understand that whilst our cells need sugar to make energy,…
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Getting the Most out of Your Grains & Legumes
Grains and legumes are excellent sources of protein, however they do need some preparation in order for you to get the most out of them nutritionally. This is because they contain anti-nutrients; substances that inhibit the absorption of nutrients along the digestive tract. Phytic acid, also known as phytate is one type of anti-nutrient that is a powerful inhibitor of…
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Healthy Eating: Being Body Aware
IMAGE: These long lived beings take their time to live and eat. Perhaps we could take a leaf out of their lettuce. In this busy 21st century world, many of us have a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it in. This makes it very easy to just grab some food, chew for a bit,…
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