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Reheating food in a microwave is a convenient way to enjoy leftovers without the extra effort and time required to make a new meal. However, not all foods are suitable for microwave reheating. Some can become unpleasant or even inedible when microwaved. Therefore, it’s important to know which foods to avoid reheating in a microwave. Being aware of these can help you make better decisions about your leftovers. MUSHROOMS If you use the microwave to cook mushrooms, they will become rubbery and release many liquids. You can cook mushrooms on the stovetop in a sauté pan with oil or butter. … Read more

For Balance, Harmony and Enrichment Wouldn’t it be great to know at least some of the healthy food groups so that we can create balance, harmony and enrichment? These food groups would include protein, carbohydrates, fats and oils as well as vitamins and minerals. By adding enough of all these food groups, you’d be well on your way to living a bountiful and healthy lifestyle. Enjoying a delicious meal featuring your favourite dishes is one of the great pleasures of life. But you don’t want to eat because of its pleasant taste; you’d need to take in all the nourishment to survive. The foods we eat … Read more

Maintaining a Sustainable and Happier Lifestyle  It’s not always that simple to find a reliable health guide these days to point us in the right direction to many of the fundamentals of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Be it at home or while you’re on the go. Whether it’s saying no to junk food, getting more fruit and vegetables into your respective diets, or eating enough fibre foods. And also to finding time for exercise or even giving up on red meat. We need to step back for a moment and reflect on where we go next. Unlike days gone by, we … Read more

Plant-Based Food to Help Fight Disease Did you not just hate all the different types of vegetables our mothers would try and make you eat as a kid? And what kid didn’t like that green stuff on our plates. Mother would say that if you don’t eat your veggies, you won’t get any pudding. Was that meant to be a bribe? Name one kid who doesn’t like pudding.  Then you sat there staring at what’s left on your plate and all there is, are the vegetables you sim. So you grin and bear it and eat the veggies. Fast forward, and … Read more

All with Unique Flavours and Health Benefits When you travel the globe, you come across many different types of fruits, and they all have their unique flavour and health benefits. We may all have our favourite fruit, but to experience the fruits in exotic locations like South East Asia, Latin America and Africa could certainly open a whole new world for you. There are around 100 different varieties to choose, and while some, you may never have heard of, some you’ll recognise and others, you’ll come to love. There could also be those you’ll find hard to stomach. Nevertheless, the … Read more

Health Benefits from the Ocean Why would anyone want to eat seaweed also referred to as sea vegetables? People ask me this every time I bring up the subject. The answer is quite simple – Seaweed offers one of the broadest ranges of minerals of any food, containing virtually all the minerals found in the ocean and not surprisingly, many of the same pure substances are found in human blood too. The Health Benefits of Seaweed has a variety of unique phytonutrients including their sulphated polysaccharides (also called fucoidans). Unlike some other categories of vegetables, sea vegetables do not appear to depend … Read more

The Healthy Eating Lifestyle Not only can a raw vegan food diet be seen as a healthy meat-free alternative but it can certainly add a lot more vibrancy and energy into the equation as well as it can make you as strong as an ox. And if anyone asks you how you can become as strong as an ox without eating meat, tell them – Have you ever seen an ox eating meat. And all this despite the lack of any long-term analogy of the type of successes that a raw food diet can bring to the table compared to other kinds of healthy … Read more

The Yin and Yang of Physical and Mental Balance   Though it may seem like something from mars, macrobiotic food is a simple dietary platform that when applied carefully, can create a stabilised state of overall physical and mental balance. You may ask yourself what’s wrong with the food I’m already eating, that which my mother made and that which has passed down for generations. But now that we there is too much exposure to modern conveniences, so comes more imbalances. We are following this with more and more cases of severe health conditions. Sometimes we have to make some adjustments to bring … Read more

Take a look at some of the Best Food Sources Is it correct to assume that not all food is equal and if so, is plant protein better than animal protein? This question is often up for discussion when the subject is up for debate. Many of us assume that if you don’t eat meat, we’re not getting the right type of protein in our diet or that we’re not getting any protein at all. But what meat-eater often fail to realise is that plant-based protein has a much higher nutritional value than meat-based protein. I wonder how many of you will agree … Read more

Nature’s Best Protection There’s a heck of a lot we can learn about leafy green vegetables and just how important they are for our health. Did you know that they have the power to deliver more nutrients for fewer calories than virtually any other food? And this is no trick question either. There are simply tonnes of essential nutrients in leafy green veggies, whether they are the dark variety or not. Leafy greens such as Swiss chard, spinach, kale, collard greens all contain plenty of the right stuff our body desperately wants and needs. Examples of these health-giving properties are iron, calcium, … Read more