Tag: nutrition
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Recipe: Mood-Boosting Bergamot Tea
Bergamot is known for its mood-boosting abilities; it can reduce stress, promote calmness, and lower levels of cortisol (the stress hormone). It’s also a powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, and traditionally used to treat low mood & depression. Winter is the season we’re more likely to experience symptoms like low mood or depression, and even less…
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Retreat Announcement: Women’s Spring Revival Retreat 2020
Women’s Spring Revival Retreat Bank Holiday Weekend May 8th-10th 2020 Lewes, UK A weekend of Yoga, meditation, relaxation, movement, wellness workshops, therapies, nutritional know-how, seasonal health tips, good company, time for you, a beautiful venue, delicious food and so much more. Hosted by Emma, Bridget and Georgie Newlyn, this unique retreat is an opportunity to…
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Mitochondria – Enhancing Summer Meal
When it comes to how food effects us, many of us are concerned with whether it adds or burns fat, whether it builds muscle, sustains energy, helps us sleep, or prevents illness. What we may not consider however, is whether a food can enhance the function of our mitochondria or not. First of all, mitochondria…
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Lemon & Coconut Natural Energy Balls
Celebrate the sunshine this week with a bite of something fresh and zesty. With totally healthy ingredients and no refined sugars whatsoever, the energy boost you’ll feel from these won’t be accompanied by a subsequent crash. Studies show that whilst lemon zest is a great baking ingredient, it also has a few other surprisingly brilliant…
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Quick-Make Pancake Recipe
There’s a huge conversation happening at the moment around protein, and it isn’t the one asking the question “are you getting enough?”, it’s the one that asks “do we really need that much?”. Since the bodybuilding craze began, people have been searching out ways to build muscle fast, and as the craze has developed into something a vast…
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Chickpea Flatbreads 2-Ways
Chickpeas are a fantastic source of protein, fiber, manganese, folate, iron, calcium and magnesium. They’re filling, help to lower levels of inflammation, also also help to rid the body of visceral fat (the type of fat found around internal organs, which is particularly important to pay attention to as we age). So how can we…
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Raw Chocolate + Avocado Mousse
If there was ever a dessert that was honestly, truly, 100% good for you, then this would be it. In fact, you could definitely have this for breakfast and call it healthy too. Healthy fats, antioxidants and a secret helping of greens make this a real treat that your body and brain will thank you…
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Spring + Summer Super Greens Salad
Green = good, right? Well you can’t go wrong with this recipe then. High in plant protein thanks to the peas and beans, and tangy and fresh thanks to fresh mint and lime juice. This is a great go-to salad when there are lots of hungry mouths to feed. Ingredients (Serves 4 as a…
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Two Minute Tahini Bliss Balls
Tahini is an underestimated superfood. It’s packed with iron, potassium and magnesium (three things many people are deficient in due to the modern standard Western diet) and is also one of the best sources of calcium we can consume. Made from ground sesame seeds, the golden coloured paste also contains methionine, which aids in…
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Secretly Simple Raspberry Infused Vinegar
Apple cider vinegar comes with a host of health benefits; it aids digestion, detoxification and Hippocrates used it for wound-cleaning and healing years ago. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ~ Hippocrates Infusing vinegars not only makes them look more fancy – and let’s face it, sometimes it’s just nice to…
