Having a severe allergy that results in anaphylaxis can be a real strain on your life. Not only that, but this type of allergy also needs to be in the forefront of everyone’s mind around you in order to best take the necessary precautions and avoid coming into contact with your allergen. And when this allergen is food related, it can make eating and preparing food difficult if not dangerous. So to help those without food allergies to best know how to handle someone with food allergies, here are three tips for living and eating with someone who has a severe food allergy. [Read more…]
Archives for January 2017
The Mind and Body Connection: Food and Mental Exercises To Keep You Going Strong
There’s no denying the body and mind connection when it comes to feeling healthy and staying fit, and food and nutrition are at the center of that equation. The more attention that you pay to these connections, the more aware you’re going to be of the consequences of your physical actions as well as your thought patterns.
So if you want to keep going strong through the entirety of your life, consider bringing yoga into the fold, updating your nutrition knowledge, talking to doctors, using meditation to facilitate change, and reading stories of success of other people in situations similar to you. [Read more…]
Using Food To Help Heal Mind and Body
You will run across situations whether either your body or your mind become unhealthy in some way or another. And while there are medicinal ways to approach the situations, and there are physical ways to try to rehab yourself, you can also work with nutrition to cure your ills, aches, and pains.
Consider the categories of addiction recovery, postpartum depression, athletic nutrition, morality, and even post-surgery needs. Each of these situations can be helped by the right approach to eating! [Read more…]