This week's topic is one that can get overlooked, one that can often fall to the back burner, and one that I am certainly extra guilty on not putting first on my list. Or on top of the list. Or on my list at all some days. Tsk tsk tsk.
Read moreTHURSDAY BASICS: buy frozen fruit + veg
Concerned about nutrient density? Want more bang for your food bucks? Frugal with your time? Buy frozen fruit and veg. Allow me to explain.
Read moreTHURSDAY BASICS: Swap your table salt for sea salt
This Thursday Basics series is a revisit of the 2016 series I wrote, the Monday Health Basics. It was always meant to be a quick read on one manageable task you can implement in order to best support optimal health. Updated and improved, this week's topic is one that is a pretty basic change that is fairly easy to implement, but is one topic that also raises many questions and controversy. We're talking SALT.
Read moreTHURSDAY BASICS. Today: w a t e r
This week’s idea is all about WATER: why we need it, how much we should aim for, and when to have it but also when not to have it. Read up, should you be wishing for good digestion.
Read moreTHURSDAY BASICS: on eating.
This week is perhaps one of the most basic tenets of my practice as a food lovin human being. Sure, it factors in a bit on the Holistic Nutritionist side of things, but I consider this a more human endeavour than a scientific-based endeavour. Ok yes, there is science to back all of this up, but even if there weren't, it's one of those 'just makes sense' kind of things.
On eating.
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