“The road to health is paved with good intestines.”
— Sherry A Rogers
Getting Started with a Food Diary
A food diary is an important and potentially very useful tool to help you become more conscious of what you are eating, get to know your body and its responses, and spot patterns that can be very revealing for your health. Here is all you need to know to get started: what to include, how to track, and how to analyse it all.
The ‘Dirty Dozen’ & ‘Clean Fifteen’ Lists: What are they & how do we use them?
When you are trying to "eat for health" and avoid unnecessary toxins and overall unwanted 'nasties' in your diet, it's good to know which foods have higher/lower pesticide residues. The EWG’s lists for 2021 have arrived. What do they tell us and how should we interpret them?
Avocado and Gut Health: Study finds positive effects on microbiome
Thanks to a new study, we can now add gut health benefits to avocado’s health-promoting powers. Turns out, regularly eating avo helps keep your gut happy in more ways than one.
How to do “healthy eating” like a human, not a machine
You can’t have a healthy body without a healthy mind. How you approach “healthy eating” matters enormously, both in terms of enhancing its effectiveness, but also for safeguarding against it turning into obsession.
Eating for IBD: Top Tips
Tips for eating for IBD, including the 3 key foods to remove from your diet, and the 3 to start eating more of now!
How to “eat for health”: Back to basics
It’s easy to get lost in the weeds of which foods are ‘good’ and which are ‘bad’, but every now and then it’s important to remind ourselves of some simple universal basics about food and eating, and how it’s not that complicated after all.
Which is the best diet for optimum health?
Navigating the many different dietary protocols and the mountains of contradictory dietary information out there can be exhausting! How do you know which is right? By finding what works best for you as an individual, even if that doesn’t fall neatly in line with a dietary ‘label’.
Coconut Oil: Good or Bad?
There are articles upon articles talking about the practically endless health benefits of coconut oil, from being the best fat to use for cooking, to oil-pulling for whiter teeth. However, occasionally, the odd article damning the practice of cooking with coconut oil as very unhealthy makes the rounds, thus causing inevitable confusion.
Search Blog: