Tag: Healthy Eating
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The 5 Essential Nutrients To Relieve Anxiety
Living with anxiety can be immobilizing. It’s difficult to navigate your day if you don’t know when or where your next panic attack may occur. Even though anxiety is often seen as a mental issue, one forgets that neurotransmitters and steroid hormones largely influence our mental state. Even though it is important to look at…
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Boost Your Immunity With Better Food Choices
Everyone wants to be healthier, right? And especially we want to avoid the usual colds and sniffles, or the flu whenever possible and that means boosting your immune system – but did you know that you can make specific food choices to improve your immunity? But that means more than just eating a bit of…
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Which Sugar Substitutes Are Healthiest?
Are you feeling confused about whether to include or remove sugar substitutes from your diet? The pressure is on to get fit, lose weight and lower our calorie intake. But how do we know what is really healthiest for us in the long run? From artificial sweeteners to sugar alcohols to honey. Some experts are…
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What Does It Take To Eat Like An Olympian?
The world has come a long way since the post WWII Olympic Games in London 1948, where each country had to provide and bring food for their own athletes due to the food shortage. Since then, we have had the time and resources to learn exactly how to fuel our bodies. Numerous diets, supplements and…
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Eating Eggs Lowers Risk of Diabetes
A new study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, has shown that, contrary to popular belief, eating eggs actually lowers the risk of diabetes. “The diabetes tsunami is here. And we in South Africa are in trouble.” Says Dr Larry Distiller, founder and managing director of the Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology in Johannesburg. “Three-and-a-half…
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Diet Soda Increases Belly Fat in Older People
A new study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, indicates a direct link between the consumption of diet soda and an increase in abdominal obesity in people 65 years of age and older. Weight gain leads to a greater risk of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. Metabolic Syndrome Metabolic Syndrome is the…
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Lighting affects your hunger
According to a small new study, exposure to blue light before and during your evening meal may affect how much you want to eat. Compared to exposure to dim light, exposure to blue light spurred higher hunger levels, starting 15 minutes after light exposure and those hunger levels stayed higher for about two hours after…
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Well Up Challenge – Meet the experts
Our Well Up Challenge well under way and our candidates working towards the goals they have set for themselves. Only two weeks into the challenge, our group has already lost a total of 18.4kg and are feeling positive and dedicated to making even more progress over the next few months. While the candidates are all…