Healthy Hummus Recipe
This healthy hummus recipe is perfect to take with you to a BBQ, or to keep in your fridge to snack on through the week. You can adjust spices to your taste as well!
Tired Of Feeling Tired? Three Must Eat Breakfast Foods
Tired Of Feeling Tired? Three Must Eat Breakfast Foods
You have heard it before, Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Well, all meals are important, but for energy levels- a good breakfast is the MOST important. What you eat at the beginning of the day is fuelling your body for either lasting, strong energy, or short burst often followed by sugar crash.
If Captain Crunch is part of your morning, then keep reading. These 3 foods will make a big difference to your energy levels.
The Importance of A Healthy Gut
The Importance of A Healthy Gut
Gut health is so important, and its actually my own poor gut health which lead me to study Nutrition. I find this topic very interesting, and its important for us all to have a basic understanding of why we are hearing so much about this right now in the media and on all of our food advertising.
Where is your gut?
The mouth is actually the first part of the gut. When we eat food, it passes down the throat into the stomach and then into the small intestine. The small intestine is where food is digested and absorbed by the bloodstream.
After that it proceeds into the large intestine, also known as the colon, and the final part of the colon leads on to the rectum, where waste products are stored until they are excreted.
Simply put, that is your gastrointestinal tract – and your gut!
Why is good gut health so important?
4 Sugar Alternatives That Are Actually Good For You
Did you know that there are many other healthier alternatives to sugar that are acutally GOOD for you? I’ve rounded up my top 4 natural and sweet sugar replacers that are going to get you out of energy dips and sugar cravings into a whole new you.
We’ve all read the news or recent studies enough to know that certain things are bad for you one day and great for you the next – red wine, the internet, painkillers… It can be hard to know what to believe with such an overwhelming amount of information out there. Sugar is no exception. Sugar has always been one that sits on the good list and bad list so it’s no wonder most people find it hard to truly know and understand the dangers of sugar. Sugar has been linked to various health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, so its best we start avoiding the white refined sugar that we find everywhere.
So what kind of sugar should you eat?