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Are your healthy eating resolutions already running out of steam? Forget the ‘New Year, New You’ approach. Instead, Nutritional Therapist Glenville Nutrition shares her tips for a more balanced approach to healthy eating this year. Or watch Glenville Nutrition explain more on Virgin Media weekend AM.
At this time of year, soups are a great and cost effective option for a quick and healthy lunch and an easy way to increase your veg intake. Our top soup tips:
Some of our favourites at the moment are this very quick and easy carrot and lentil soup, a warming sweet potato soup or spicy tomato and lentil soup
Enjoy!
What you eat when trying to conceive and when pregnant plays an important role in your baby’s health at birth and in some cases for the rest of their lives. So, it’s a great time to build healthy eating habits that you can pass on to your baby.
For many parents, back to school also means back to making the daily lunchboxes, not usually anyone’s favourite job! But with kids eating up to 1/3 of their daily food in school, what goes into the school lunchbox plays an important role in their health, development and even their ability to learn.
The impact of stress on our health cannot be underestimated. It is a known risk factor for chronic disease and can impact our sleep and general wellbeing greatly. In a recent cross-sectional study, eating more fruit and vegetables was linked to lower stress. The greatest benefit (a stress reduction of 16–36%) was seen with a combined intake of at least 400g per day. If you consider each potion of veg to be approximately 50g that equates to around 8 servings, we definitely need to up our 5 a day game!
