27th January – Choose healthy snacks
I think snacks are one of the biggest challenges to healthy eating. Finding something that is easy to have to hand, that can be carried in your bag for whenever needed without getting squashed or gooey, that doesn’t melt or leak, or that doesn’t have lots of crumbs and bits to drop all over, and that can be eaten without getting sticky or messy… It’s almost impossible to buy healthy whole foods from most places that are easily accessible for snacks. The average cafe/takeaway offerings are sugar-laden cakes/cookies/baked-goods or highly processed pastries. Most quick snacks from convenience shops are brightly coloured shiny packets – crisps, sweets, chocolate and similar. Packets…
24th January – Time Restricted Eating
⏰What is time-restricted eating (TRE)? Time restricted eating means eating only between certain times of the day, which is your “eating window”. There are lots of similarities with Intermittent Fasting, and the two terms are often used synonymously. How does it work? The physiology of eating is very complex, but in very simple terms our body is either in a “fed” state, where food is coming in, insulin levels are high, and excess energy coming in is stored. Or a “fasted” state, where the body uses previously stored energy to run. By having healthy balance between the ‘fed’ and ‘fasted’ states, our metabolism works more efficiently and healthily. TRE has…
23rd January – Eat fermented foods
Fermented foods have high levels of probiotics – these are the friendly bacteria that live in our gut.🦠They are good for helping establish and maintain a healthy gut microbiome. 🦠Having a healthy gut microbiome helps improve digestion and can help relieve lots of gastrointestinal symptoms. 🦠There is lots of increasing evidence that our gut microbiome plays an important role in immunity and keeping mental health well as well. What are fermented foods? Fermented food are foods or drinks which are produced with controlled microbial growth, the action of the microbes ( bacteria, yeasts or fungi ) changes the components of the food by enzymatic action, and often gives it that…
