Your body can benefit from healthy eating in a variety of ways. For starters, it can give you more energy and help you maintain a healthy weight. While most people understand why it’s important to eat nutritious meals, some don’t understand that making the right food choices can boost their mental health. This includes eating food that is rich in vitamins and minerals. Fortunately, there is great tasting food that can enhance your mental health and mitigate cognitive issues. Let’s look at several examples. [Read more…] about Boost Your Mental Health By Choosing the Right Types of Food
How Much Red Meat Should We Really Be Eating?
Red meat has long been a favourite food across many different cultures and cuisines. Our relationship with meat, and red meat, in particular, is changing. With the global demand for meat going up as populations grow rapidly in developing countries, we’re reaching a critical moment.
CDA recently made an infographic which looks into the world consumption of red meat. We wanted to touch on this and look at how red meat affects our health. We’ll be looking at how red meat affects our personal health, but also the health of our environment. [Read more…] about How Much Red Meat Should We Really Be Eating?
Health Foods Relabelled
Healthy branding is everywhere when it comes to food shopping. Everyone is lured in by that ‘healthy alternative’ when they’re out buying food.
We’re constantly bombarded with the need to be healthy, but it seems there are traps everywhere we go. And let’s be honest, how many of us have the patience and time to stringently check, calculate and track the nutritional value of everything we’re putting in our basket?
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Best Food for Anxiety
Did you know that your gut is actually a type of “second” brain? This is because what we eat has a direct effect on the way the rest of our body feels. It makes sense, the gut is where we absorb nutrients from our food, including around 95 percent of the total serotonin the body uses each day.
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Health Goals You Can Actually Stick to in 2019
Goals are a tricky thing. Setting them up is easy, following through is harder, and then actually sticking to them for a long period of time seems almost impossible. We’ll vow to go on a diet and exercise every day, we’ll promise to take much better care of ourselves, and then our initial energy and enthusiasm will quickly wither away after a few weeks or months.
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Low-Carb (and Keto) Food List to Start 2019 Strong
What better way to kick off the new year than with a clear set of health goals and intentions? Clean eating not only benefits your body through potential weight loss, but it can also reduce your risk of disease and clear your mind so you can be the best version of yourself.
