Nutrition

Vitamin D and our beloved sun

By |8 November 2020|Disease prevention, Nutrition, Physical health|

As you may have noticed from all the press coverage in recent years, vitamin D is important for all of us. Even with regards to SARS-CoV-2, vitamin D has been in the news numerous times and preliminary studies suggest that those with a vitamin D deficiency is far more prevalent in patients with severe COVID–19 disease requiring ICU admission and thereby increased chances of mortality.

Why you need to drink more water

By |24 May 2020|Disease prevention, Nutrition, Physical health|

It sounds so cliché but it is so true; we are mostly made out of water. Overall the human body exists of about 60% water. Without water we wouldn't exist. However, a lot of people do not drink enough water these days as we have replaced it by 'fake' drinks such as coffee, sports drinks, soft drinks, alcohol.

8 Reasons why chewing your food rocks

By |2 February 2020|Nutrition, Physical health|

I walk into the same trap as you, although I (…) should know better. For instance, I didn’t have much time for lunch yesterday, so I downed my precious food (an organic 4 egg omelette with leek, tomato, red onion and mushrooms, nicely fried in virgin coconut oil) without even realizing I was eating it.

What the health

By |5 July 2017|Disease prevention, Nutrition, Physical health|

Recently a documentary called "What The Health" was released. As some of my friends highly recommended it, I started watching it. Unfortunately (after having seen pretty much all health related documentaries that have come out since 15 years) it didn't take long for me to find out that this one carries an agenda and omitted to truly look at what is best for our health in the process.

Imported organic versus local non-organic foods

By |1 August 2014|Nutrition|

I went to the local health food shop the other day to get some organic raisins for my little boy. He loves raisins and wouldn’t want to eat his oatmeal in the morning without them. Although I can get Spanish raisins, we chose to buy these organic ones from California because regular grapes are one of the products that are heavily sprayed.