Foraging for Food
The other morning my mum came home from her early morning fitness session with my dad’s Commando group, and showed me these: She found them growing in the public park area where her morning fitness group meets to be ‘punished’ 3 times a week, and was laughing because some of the other participants starting calling her “Bush Tucker Lady”. Mum’s response was, “I think a bird who ate some tomatoes, must have pooped here, so why not take them home to eat”. Haha hardly appetising but what a great find I think. Loads of raw food enthusiasts currently forage for their wild food but I am yet to do so for fear of picking something more »
Share on Facebook10 Reasons To Quit Eating Meat
Although plenty of people who continue to eat meat, understand the health benefits of a vegetarian or plant based diet, I thought it would be a gentle reminder on why quitting meat (or even reducing it) is being kinder to you and our furry friends Because you want to feel sexy. Meateaters are more likely to be overweight than vegetarians according to The Journal of Clinical Nutrition and The New England Journal of Medicine (Skinny Bitch). Kidney stones and premature organ aging can occur, as they work over time to process meat. This is definitely not sexy! Eating meat has been linked to reproductive disorders, miscarriages, obesity, various cancers and possibly nervous system disorders. According more »
Share on FacebookDiet ‘Labels’ & Where Do You Fit In?
Over the last couple of months, I’ve noticed more online discussion regarding the terms used to label or pigeon hole ‘diet’ or an eating persuasion to one type or another. Things like: LFRV (Low Fat Raw Vegan) or Fruitarian HRAV (High Raw All Vegan) Vegan 100% Raw Pescatarian (eats a vegetarian diet but includes fish or seafood) Flirts (dipping their toe in the vegan pool to see if they like it) & Superheroes (a plant based macrobiotic diet of greens, whole grains, beans, mushrooms, squash and a limited amount of tofu or soybean products) terms used by Alicia Silverstone, actor and author of one of my favourite books, The Kind Diet. And I am sure more »
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