Five Major Benefits to Regular Yoga Practice by Samantha Clarke, RYT As a yoga teacher, I see many different students; there are those who just want to sweat, those who are looking for solace from their children and those who are searching for a spiritual awakening. Each person who comes to yoga does so in …
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20 Ways to Use Apple Cider Vingear For hundreds of years people have been using natural apple cider vinegar as both a food and a medicine. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, and the guy who said “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”, along with many others, have used vinegar and …
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Tea Time: Yerba Mate I am a huge tea drinker, I have one cupboard in my kitchen dedicated solely to tea. I drink everything from green tea to chamomile, rose hip to peppermint, fennel to dandelion, hawthorn to chai to name just a few. Tea is such a big part of my everyday life and …
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The Bountiful Broccoli: 6 Benefits My favourite vegetable, I just love broccoli, I can eat it raw, in a stir-fry, in a soup or salad or just simply by the plateful with garlic warmed in olive oil poured all over it. Simply divine! While there are many many health benefits to including broccoli in your …
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10 Ways to Eat Kale Kale has been getting a lot of press lately, but one thing you may be wondering is how to use it. I’ve come up with 10 easy and delicious ways to incorporate kale into your diet. But first, here are just some of the health benefits to eating kale. I …
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Soluble and Insoluble fibre: do you need both? High fibre foods are vitally important to your health, that average person today only gets an average of 4 to 11 grams of fibre daily. You should be aiming for 30 to 40 grams of fibre a day for optimum health. When first starting to increase fibre, …
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Natural Sweeteners Explained Sugar, what I like to call the “other white drug”, we all grew up with and for many of us has enjoyed on a daily basis. Unfortunately it is nutritional void and spikes your blood sugar, increases inflammation and weight gain and sends you on an endless roller coaster of craving. Artificial …
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10 Foods for a Daily Liver Detox The liver is so important to our well-being that many practitioners maintain that most diseases cannot develop in the body if the liver is functioning in an efficient, healthy manner. Conversely, an unhealthy liver is very likely at the root of most serious health problems. When the liver …
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Crazy for Coconuts Coconuts, this has to be one of my favourite foods on the planet. I could eat anything and everything coconut. My weakness…coconut ice cream, it is divine. Coconuts not only taste awesome but they are also a powerhouse of nutrition. Around the world the coconut tree is known as “the tree of …
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My Favourite 5 Heart Healthy Foods When it comes to eating for good health, choosing foods for heart health should be at the top of your list. The heart is the organ that literally keeps us going – delivering nutrients, oxygen and disease fighters throughout the body. According to the World Health Organization heart disease …
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