“Am I normal?” The theme for Women’s Health Week 2016 is all about finding out what is normal for you. We are all different, so we need to interpret general nutrition and health guidelines with care. This week I am sharing tips to help you assess what is normal for YOU.
This is part 2 in the series of “When should I eat”. Answering, “Why should I eat?” helps you to uncover what drives the way you eat. At some stage in your life you may have lost touch with your natural appetite and satiety signals, or you handed the power of eating for you over to a DIET. Perhaps you have never really considered the value of eating well. On top of these conscious or unconscious choices, we share our lives with others, and have commitments that impact on what, when, why and how we eat.
Meat free week is an annual challenge to help Australian’s understand how much meat they eat and how much they actually need. The aim of the week is not to encourage everyone to become a vegetarian eater, but rather provide the opportunity for us to reflect on how much meat we eat, the impact this has on our health and the health of our planet, and what we can eat instead of meat. I invite you take my Meat Free Week Quiz and see how you fare.
This week I am sharing some highlights from my Singapore mindfulness talk. The talk was hosted, on 17 July, by Mahsuka Singapore Buddhist Centre and was well attended by friends of the centre and monks from Serang Monastery, Nepal. The talk, which was translated into Tibetan by Nuptul Rinpoche, explored how Western Science and Eastern wisdom can work together. Mindfulness is central to making choices that best suit your current requirements.
Earlier in the year I participated in a 5 vegetables a day challenge for bowel cancer awareness. I didn’t do anything differently with my meal choices and I easily met the recommended 5 serves. But during the week I realised that I have a few tricks that make eating 5 vegetables a day easier. And here they are.
Winter arrived in Australia with bountiful rainfall and cooler weather. The beginning of the new season provided many good reasons to have some time indoors by a fire, move our bodies more and enjoy warm foods. Mindfulness allows us to adjust to new external and internal cues. It guides us in our selection nourishing winter foods.
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