Getting your five a day and eating the rainbow are good starting points, but making sure you get all of your vitamins and minerals is also essential to maintaining overall health.
Getting your five a day and eating the rainbow are good starting points, but making sure you get all of your vitamins and minerals is also essential to maintaining overall health.
Everyone is familiar with the phrase ‘you are what you eat’, but actually, you are what you absorb, and this is where good gut health comes into play.
You might be wondering why I’m banging on about my last book with a new one out, but ultimately that was the start of the super-food journey for me, and the info I shared there has become the foundation of the new book, too.
Just like so many other vitamins and minerals, a daily balance of omega fatty acids is necessary to keep us in tip-top health. Our bodies can’t make these fatty acids, so it’s down to us to help ourselves by including omega-rich foods in our diets.
Punchy and fragrant, warming and spicy, fresh ginger is a powerful ingredient, both in terms of flavour and nutrition.
Treats are everywhere we turn. You’ll be pleased to hear that cakes, biscuits and desserts can be part of a healthy and active lifestyle, as there’s no such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ foods – it’s everything in moderation.
A poor diet does our bodies no favours in keeping healthy. That’s not to promise that a super-healthy diet will prevent you from ever catching a cold, but it will certainly do you no harm in helping you to keep fighting fit and feeling fine.
We’ve all seen the headlines stating that we should reduce the amount of red and processed meat we include in our diet, but why is this and how much should we actually be consuming?
Herbs and spices are such important ingredients to any cook. They can add fantastic flavour to a meal or drink, and have great nutritional benefits, too.