Nutrition
Food does more than affect our mood. It affects our short-term and long-term health. What we put into our body now can greatly affect us down the road.
It’s like the old analogy - if you want your car to run properly for a long time, would you fill the tank with premium fuel or with mud?
Food can be a medicine, or it can be a poison. Some foods are known to help fight cancer and some are known to contribute to causing cancer.
We can eat foods that give us energy, focus and clarity. Or we can eat foods that slow us down, make us tired, inflamed and cause brain fog.
After a meal, do you feel bloated, slow, or lazy? Feel like you have to take a nap? That's not ideal. That’s not how fueling your body should feel. Food should give us energy to go about our day, not make us tired and sluggish.
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A common misconception is that we have to improve our diet for weeks or even months to notice a change, which is untrue. Changing our diet for less than a week or even sometimes as little as a day or two can have a significant impact. It really does not take much.
The more we educate ourselves and pay attention to how foods actually make us feel, the more we can reap the benefits of their powerful properties.
Food is more than just eating whatever we crave or tastes good in the moment. It is knowing how the food we are putting into our body is affecting us. It also doesn’t have to be one or the other. Healthy foods can and do taste good. We don’t have to chomp on a raw head of broccoli to be healthy. There are ways to prepare healthy and nourishing foods in delicious ways. Here are some of our favorite recipes.
