Category: Nutrition

Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition!

It’s all about nutrition. The focus is on minimally processed whole foods to support optimal health and healing. I hope that what I post here will be informative and helpful to you in meeting your nutritional needs.

  • 3 Vital habits for improved health

    3 Vital habits for improved health

    The word vital stems from the Latin vitalis (–of life) and refers to that which is essential and necessary to the maintenance of life. Air: Practice deep-breathing From our first breath to our last, air is absolutely essential to life. If you live in a busy built-up area, get to a park for a walk,…

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  • Nourish and flourish

    Nourish and flourish

    A healthy diet is fundamental to a healthy body. The abundance of contradictory research on what constitutes a healthy diet can be confusing, and being told that what was good for us yesterday is bad for us today can numb us on the whole subject of diet. Fad diets and food trends come and go,…

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  • Plant-based Iron

    Plant-based Iron

    How to get enough iron on a vegan or plant-based diet There are two types of iron in food: Haem iron found in animal tissue, and non-haem iron found in plant foods. Iron nutrition depends on the amount of iron consumed and the amount absorbed. While the body more readily absorbs haem iron this is…

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