5th January – eat a plant-based diet
Eat a plant-based diet 🍆Tonight’s dinner: baked aubergine stuffed with homemade spicy mixed bean and tomato stew, served with a mixed leaf salad, tomatoes and olives. 🥬Plant-based doesn’t have to mean plant-exclusive, so it doesn’t have to be full vegan or vegetarian, although both of those can be equally healthy options too. ⭐️There is an incredible wealth of evidence of out there for following a Whole-Food Plant-Based (WFPB) diet, just some of the benefits are: 🍎Lowers risk and may even treat and reverse some chronic diseases🍏Reduced risk of heart disease and cancer🍎Reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity to the metabolism works more effectively, protecting beta…
Vitamin C can help make you happy!
Most people have heard of vitamin C and have heard that it’s good for the immune system… in fact, people have been recommending hot lemon for colds since before they knew what vitamin C was. …but did you know that it is also good a powerful antioxidant? Antioxidants are health promoting substances which help prevent cell damage in the body, so can help reduce many risks, including heart disease and cancer. Vitamin C is also a co-factor essential for the production of serotonin and dopamine, which are our happy mood-lifting neurotransmitters. So, increasing your vitamin C levels by increasing your intake of whole foods containing vitamin C might help boost…
The link between fast food and depression
🍴Increased consumption of fried 🍟🥓🍔sugary 🧁🍿& processed🥪🍕 foods is associated with increased risk of both anxiety and depression. ✅These large observational studies don’t give us reasons why eating more processed food or fast food increases the chances of people having depression, but it does suggest that there is very likely a link between the two. 🍅🍌🥦As an extra benefit, increasing your intake of “whole-foods” (ie vegetables and fruit and anything unprocessed) seems to be protective against depression. 👍Avoiding fast food and processed food (for example burgers, fried foods, pastries and high-sugar foods) is side-effect free, so it’s surely worth a try to see if it helps? 📖references:📚Akbaraly TN, et al.…
