A healthy nutrition is especially important during childhood. Those years shape healthy eating and drinking habits. Parents, grandparents and caregiver steer the development of food preferences, which usually stay with us for the rest of our life. This includes choices of foods as well as eating behavior. Rational arguments, like „you have to eat fruits,…
Recipe of the month
This month I want to share another one of my favourite recipes from the “The Beauty Detox Foods” book. I love all kinds of vegetables, as well as quinoa. Very often for dinner I will make Kimberly Snyder’s “Quinoa Ten-Veggie Fried Rice”. I love the fact that it is very light meal, easy to make…
Yoga and digestion – is there a relation?
Most of us practice yoga on a weekly basis. But what’s so really, truly great about it? Is it the added flexibility? The new-found strength? Or the ability to find more balance, even off the mat, in daily life? These might all be great (superficial) layers of your acquaintance with a yoga asana practice. Yet,…
Losing weight in a healthy way
With the bikini season approaching quicker then we might realize we are looking to get rid of the few extra kilos that we have stored over the holiday and winter season. There are all kinds of information, tips, diets and alleged remedies on how to lose weight. But all too often we find here short-term…
What does a healthy nutrition mean?
Nutrition is a topic that has always been very important to me, but only a few years ago I came across a book that helped me develop a real interest in understanding how the food that I eat affects my body (more on that in the coming weeks). I have always believed in balanced diet,…