How to regulate your circadian rhythms: circadian rhythms are what regulate your body’s wake/sleep cycle: they work pretty much work in automatic, and tell your body when it is time to fall asleep and when it is time to be awake. The mechanism that regulates them is actually quite complex and involves a couple of …
Let’s face it healthy eating, it’s not cheap, but with a bit of attention and planning, you can learn to eat well on a budget. And if you are feeling a bit demotivated always remember that healthy eating is always the best choice in the long run: the one that will help you to maintain …
Summer is now here, and we have been blessed with a beautiful weather here in London this year. With summer dresses and less make-up, the attention is on the skin. So here are 6 lifestyle tips for glowing skin. Because beautiful skin is a healthy skin.
You diet too much. Yes, that’s right. Most “calorie-restricted” diets, will only crash your metabolism, making it all too easy to pile on the pounds as soon as you stop them. One of the reasons is that your body will “adapt” to survive with less, considerably slowing down your metabolic rate. You don’t eat healthy …
Intuitive eating or attuned eating is a way of approaching food that is person-centered and not dogmatic. One of its core beliefs is that you should “allow yourself to eat”, and there is no food that is “good or bad”. Many recent studies have in fact, demonstrated that cutting out food groups can lead to …
With the New Year comes the time of punishing diets or “detox” to make up for the indulgences of the festive season. And while the idea of starting afresh and clearing out the system and your life from what did not work the previous year might be a positive and powerful one, when it comes …
am always on the lookout for healthier alternatives to yummy everyday meals. After all, If you manage to swap your favourite foods for an alternative that tastes great but has more health benefits, your general health will be improved as a result, without you having to go on a diet of feeling sacrificed. This is …
ntuitive eating is a way of eating that follows your natural cues and is opposed to diet culture and obsession with calories. In intuitive eating, we rediscover our natural rhythms and the pleasure of food. Food becomes nourishment and self-care. Important health organizations like The British Heart Foundations are recommending intuitive eating as a healthy …
Emotional Eating is one of the most common reasons why people cannot lose weight or sustain healthy eating habits. You may have been there yourself. You have been on your best behavior most of the day, eating your veggies, reducing your carbs, or maybe even counting calories, and then after dinner, you get tempted by …
When shopping for healthy fruits and vegetables it is always difficult to know which are best to buy organic and which one are OK to bought conventionally grown. The EWG, the Environmental Working Group is an American organization that annually publish a list of the most pesticide ridden fruits and vegetables and the least pesticide …
