Be Well Magazine

When you’re green inside, you’re clean inside Vegetables are the ‘jewels in the crown’, packed with vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals that are good for us.  They really are like jewels in all their glorious colours – emerald leafy greens and brassicas and dark…

Chemicals are all around us – in our food and water, on our food, in the cleaning and skin care products we use and in our furnishings and household items. Many chemicals can affect your liver and hormone metabolism and can contribute to…

Being kind to you Self-compassion is treating yourself with the same kindness and care you’d treat a friend. Self-compassion is not self- indulgence, self-pity, or self-esteem. It’s a skill you can learn and practice. You do the practice in exactly the same…

Your heart pumps the blood into your body, but it’s the muscular action that helps the blood return to the heart. The blood carries fresh nutrients to your cells and helps remove toxins. When you experience stress, the flight or fight reaction…

Just Breathe – exercises The key to breathing easily and well is to first start noticing the breath. You can do this by sitting somewhere quietly, in a chair that supports your back and just listening to your breath as it flows…

At this time of year, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of the season and be distracted by the treasure trove of goodies when we’re in the supermarket. Since many of our celebrations centre around food, we don’t want…

Re-wiring our approach to food We are the only animal who has a concept of eating specific types of food at specific times of the day. So breakfast for example is often muesli, cereal, toast, maybe eggs. But other animals have no…