If you’re feeling depressed or low in motivation it may be that you don’t have enough feel-good chemicals in your brain. We need sufficient levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin to help us feel happy and enough noradrenalin to keep us feeling motivated. By eating a diet rich in the right nutrients you can boost levels [...]
Christmas is a time for celebrating, and what better way to celebrate than with food? Since time began, food has been used as a way of bringing people together and for sharing and celebrating special occasions. Our recommendation for this Christmas is therefore to infuse your food with nourishment and love and to have a [...]
This week we come to the last of the seven types of hunger…. Heart hunger.
We associate certain foods with particular memories and the mood or emotion that the memory evokes. Therefore the memory of special times infuses foods eaten at that time with warmth and happiness. For example, many people long for foods that they’ve [...]
Mind hunger is based upon thoughts and is influenced by information we take in from our senses – particularly our eyes and ears. Typical mind hunger thoughts include:
‘I should eat more protein’
‘I deserve some chocolate today’
‘I should drink 1.5 litres of water a day’
Mind hunger is often based upon absolutes and opposites [...]
Having a healthy relationship with food and eating mindfully, means being able to turn our awareness inwards to listen to what our body is telling us it needs. Listening to our instinctive needs is the basis of tuning into cellular hunger.
As babies, we have an instinctive awareness about what we need to eat, but as [...]
This week we’re moving down from the mouth to the stomach, for the fourth type of hunger …. Stomach hunger.
I’m sure everyone can relate to hunger pangs coming from their stomach, but what signal does your stomach really give you when it is hungry? It may be an emptiness that wants to be filled, or [...]
