Category: Health and Fitness

Salt and Your Health

Too much sodium in your system can cause your body to retain excess water. This does more than make your rings feel tighter and cause the number on the scale to creep up. It also places a significant burden on your heart, potentially leading to high blood pressure. Consuming less sodium can help you avoid high blood pressure or even lower it if it’s already high. This is important becaus…

Healthy Foods to Try This Year

You’ve finally learned how to pronounce quinoa and managed to find a kale recipe or two you can tolerate – but guess what? Now there’s a whole new batch of health foods gaining recognition, and they promise everything from better skin to enhanced mental acuity to weight loss. Step aside, fruit smoothie – there are some new players in town.
Jackfruit
Jackfruit smells a little lik…

Party Food Can Be Fun and Healthy

Hosting a party (or attending one) does not mean that you have to toss your diet out the window for the night. There’s nothing wrong with an occasional splurge, of course – but doing so repeatedly as people tend to do during the holiday season is a surefire way to gain unwanted weight. Whether you’re the one making food for your guests or you’re just choosing what to put on your plate at t…

Should You Be Eating Locally Grown Food?

There is a growing interest in Australia (and around the world) in wanting to know where the food we eat comes from. Most of our food is transported long distances, and worse, we usually aren’t aware of what goes into it or who produced it. Eating local is another option and gives us a way to improve our health, benefit the environment, and support the local economy all at once. Locally grown…

Healthy Eating Habits that Actually Work

Fad diets are all over the place. These diets can seem fun at first, but it’s usually impossible to stick to them for more than a few weeks at a time. That’s why most people never see any lasting results from them. Instead of latching onto the latest trend, why not try some of these science-backed habits that can help you become healthier and lose weight?
Eat food you love.
You might think…

How Sugar Harms Your Health

Most people eat much more sugar than they need each day. This sugar overload causes all kinds of havoc in your body. You know you need to limit sugar, but do you know exactly why? Here are some of the ways sugar is wrecking your health.
1. Sugar fattens up your organs.
Fructose – found in high-fructose corn syrup as well as table sugar – trigger your body to store fat in unusual places,…

The Truth About Healthy Fats

The word “fat” certainly isn’t seen as an inherently positive noun or adjective. But if you are seeking to achieve wellness and better health, you must remove the negative connotations associated with consuming fat and explore how the intake of appropriate types of fats could positively impact your health.

Experts believe that your body requires fats that come from food. Although ther…

Health Benefits and Tasty Recipes Make Oatmeal a Hit

Many children have fond memories of childhood breakfasts—mornings of pancakes, bowls of sugary cereal (with the much-anticipated cereal box prize), or eggs. For many children, though, breakfast consisted of a dense, and often bland-tasting bowl of oatmeal, the likes of which may have left them with oat-tinged mental blocks about the food. If this sounds like you and you’ve been avoiding…

Give Them a Squeeze – Add Lemons to Your Diet Today

They’re zesty, tasty, and you usually think of them as a way of adding a little bit of flavour to your favourite dishes, or else as flavouring for sweet drinks and lollies. But lemons have been called the healthiest food on the planet, and when you get a closer look at these fruits, it’s not very difficult to see why.

They are packed full of vitamins, especially Vitamin C, and their juic…

How to Get Energy Out of Your Food – Without Caffeine

When many people are in need of energy, it is their habit to pick up a cup of coffee or, worse, guzzle a can of soda or an energy drink. But these caffeine-filled drinks can do a lot of damage to the body, and they are best avoided (or in the case of coffee, consumed in minimal amounts).

Fortunately, when you are in need of energy, there are plenty of delicious and nutritious foods that you…