Monthly Archives: August 2017
Are you eating your veggies? If not, you should be
Were you told as child to “eat your veggies, they are good for you”? Perhaps you weren’t allowed to leave the table until every last pea was eaten? For many, meal times became a war zone in which child battled vegetable. This is unfortunate, especially if it has tainted your adult view of eating your veggies. If you still find eating veggies challenging, hopefully this article will convince you to make a change. You would seriously be missing out on so many amazing benefits if you don’t. Vegetables are low in calories and carbs, high in fibre and contain almost all of the vitamins and minerals your body needs for vibrant health.
What should people eat?
What should people eat?
The obvious answer to this question is “food”, although the processed food industry and government agencies responsible for setting dietary guidelines, would have you believe that it is far more complicated than that. They operate on the premise that eating the right nutrients is what matters most. Food marketers spend fortunes on adverts which inform us about all the good nutrients they have added to food and the bad ones they have taken out. No added MSG, enriched with vitamin C, sugar-free and low-fat are but a few of the tag lines used to sell processed products. Breakfast cereals are a good example. They are ‘fortified with vitamins and minerals’ and are ‘cholesterol free’. When packaged in eye-catching attractive boxes, we fall for the claims hook, line and sinker. Read the rest of this entry
Primal Perks 