Food & nutrition
Nourish your body with healthy and delicious food. Let our contributors break common misconceptions to change your perception of food and educate you on how to make healthier choices on a day-to-day basis. Whether you're looking to boost energy, manage an underlying health condition, or simply eat healthier, they provide the information and inspiration you need to make positive changes to your diet.
How Diet and Nutrition Shape ADHD and Autism
Nutrition and diet play a fundamental role in supporting symptoms of ADHD and autism, particularly when they form part of a comprehensive approach. When a child or adult struggles with focus, mood, sleep...
Understanding Our Three Deadly Food Sins and the Truth About Fat, Sugar, and Synthetic Foods
In the modern battle against obesity and chronic disease, it’s worth asking an uncomfortable question: have we gotten it all completely wrong? Across the globe, rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease...
Why Your Energy Depends on Digestion, the Ayurvedic Key to Sustainable Vitality
Health is not created by what you do occasionally. It is created by what your body is able to process every day. In my clinical Ayurvedic practice, one of the most common concerns I hear is: “I’m tired...
Why Butter Should Be Your Go-To Fat in a World Full of Plant Oils
Do you remember the time when we only ate olive oil and balsamic vinegar as a dip with our courtesy bread at an Italian restaurant? The little white dish was sat in front of us, and we all dipped our slices.
The Nutrition Statements Not to Ignore, and the Nutrition Claims to Ignore
Diet is an umbrella term for the items that habitually appear on your plate and routinely feature in what you eat. But when a diet-related ‘fad’ comes along with a connected perception that it is ‘good’ or ‘bad’...
When Environment Speaks Louder Than Genes and Rethinking the North-South IBD Gradient
Why does inflammatory bowel disease vary by region, and what does that reveal about our environment? This article uncovers how lifestyle, diet, and exposure shape disease risk, offering a powerful new perspective ...
Why Macro & Micronutrients Matter More Than Calories for Body Composition and Wellbeing
Let me guess. At some point in your life, you've stood in a supermarket aisle, squinting at the back of a cereal box, trying to work out whether 347 calories is good, bad, or entirely irrelevant, and...
What We Stock vs. What We Need and A Health Detective’s First Clue to Food Choices
If you open your pantry right now, what would you find? Not the things you use every day. The other items. The ones pushed a little further back. Bought with good intentions. Kept “just in case.”
The Energy Builders and the 3 Nutrition Pillars That Transform Mood, Focus, and Daily Resilience
Most people think low energy is a personal failing, not sleeping well enough, not being disciplined enough, not eating “perfectly.” But in reality, most modern fatigue has nothing to do with willpower...
Five Percent Beef and a Disney Princess, A Field Guide to the Baby Food Aisle
I was standing in a Swiss supermarket last week, doing what I always do in the baby food aisle: ignoring the fronts of packages and flipping them over. I picked up a Big Brand’s “Spaghetti Bolognese...
What Can Food Teach Us About Life?
When we drill down to the fundamentals of anthropology, sociology, psychology, and even philosophy, the human being is inarguably the sum of its parts and environmental influences. And what are we...
The Real Reason Diets Keep Failing You, It's Not You
You've done the research. You've tried the clean eating plans, the elimination diets, the supplements, and the meal prepping on Sundays. You know what macros are. And yet, here you are, still feeling...
Never Neglect Nutrition and How Food Affects Your Mind
Food doesn’t just shape your body; it quietly shapes your thoughts, mood, and behaviour too. In a world that glorifies quick fixes and convenience, it’s easy to forget that every bite you take sends a...
The 3 Things They Lied to You About and the Truth Behind the Myths of Sun, Salt, and Fat
There was a time when people didn’t fear sunlight, didn’t count grains of salt, and didn’t panic over a bit of butter. And strangely enough, people weren’t as sick as they are today. Obesity wasn’t normal...
Could Your Child’s Diet Be Affecting Their Mood, Focus, and Energy More Than You Realise?
Parents today aren’t asking for perfection. They want calmer mornings, fewer emotional explosions, better concentration at school, and less of that “wired but exhausted” feeling by bedtime.
