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5 Things You Don’t Need To Be Healthy

shutterstock_269511065Unless you’re replacing your morning coffee with kale juice, dragging yourself out of bed at 5am for another punishing workout and spending your entire Sunday afternoon preparing food for the week, these days it can feel like you’re just not trying hard enough. It seems that being healthy has become a full time job, with overtime.

We can mostly blame social media for this, with ‘healthy lifestyles’ now paraded all over Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and basically anywhere you look. Impressive as these displays of dedication are,  I don’t really blame people for feeling like they just can’t quite be bothered with it all. Witnessing the endless stream of health and fitness routines is exhausting enough, let alone actually trying to do any of this stuff yourself.

But rest assured, looking after yourself doesn’t have to mean a lifetime of abstinence and self flagellation. Here are just a few of the many things you don’t actually need to do to be healthy: [Read more…]

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10 Easy Ways To Make Vegetables Taste Amazing

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I’m lucky to be a natural-born veggie lover. But if being a dietitian has taught me anything, it’s that not everyone shares this love!

We all know we need to eat our veggies though, and in fact, they should really make up the bulk of what we eat.

So what to do if you just don’t like them? Don’t despair, here are a few little tricks to jazz them up a bit.

  1. Add a little bit of olive oil and a pinch of salt
    This is almost too simple to mention, but you just can’t underestimate the transformative powers of adding a little fat and salt to your veggies, particularly the green ones. Plain, steamed broccoli, beans or Brussels sprouts don’t get many people excited, and are likely to be totally shunned by non-veggie lovers, but add a drizzle of olive oil and a tiny pinch of salt and suddenly they take on a whole new dimension. I do this while they’re still in the pan so that you can give them a good toss around and get them nice and evenly coated. Plus, a little bit of fat helps our bodies to absorb many of the vitamins from the veggies too. [Read more…]

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The Only Salad Dressing Recipe You’ll Ever Need

IMG_1167 (1)Making you own salad dressing might seem like one more thing you just don’t have time for, but it can literally be done in about 30 seconds. Plus, it’s so much better than the stuff you buy at the supermarket which is generally full of artificial ingredients and added sugar.

Most salad dressings boil down to a very simple combination of ingredients – the secret is having the right combination of oil, acidity and sweetness.  If you can learn the simple formula for this combination you’ll be able to whip up your own delicious and super healthy salad dressing without so much as a glance at a recipe book.

So, here is the magic formula: [Read more…]