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Health & Wellness
consume it. A lot of the taste of processed worse cousins – the drive-throughs – as
foods is designed to cheat your body’s convenient, but we often don’t consider
natural nutritional feedback mechanisms the detour taken or compare them with
so that you will enjoy processed foods the time taken to stop at a fresh produce
more and think that what you have eaten seller.
was nutritious.
In our rushed world, meals are often not
These foods are often high in calories and planned properly, but stopping at a fast
low in nutrients, a contributing factor to a food outlet and buying something low in
population that is essentially overweight nutrition that has been sitting in a warmer
but undernourished. drawer, either fully or half-cooked, waiting
for the next sucker, shouldn’t be the way
Taking food supplements does not solve you reward yourself for a busy, hard-
this problem, and if you are curious about working life.
this, just a little bit of research will show
that they often do more harm than good. The vast amount of nutrients in fresh fruit
Increasingly, research published by reliable and veggies cannot be copied in a lab,
bodies such as the FDA (Food and Drug and the range of flavours are myriad. Not
Administration), the American Cancer only will your body thank you for healthier
Society and the National Institute of choices, but your brain will too.
Health, points to many risks and dangers.
Due to the fact that our digestion is quite
And before you say that ‘natural complicated, it could take a few weeks
supplements’ are good, remember that for you to be comfortable with a change
snake venom, arsenic, and all the deadly in diet. For the first 10 days or so it might
mushrooms in the world are all ‘natural’. feel like an effort, but then it becomes a
daily celebration of health and vitality!
NO FOOD IS FASTER
THAN FRUIT Eat well, stay active and above all, stay
We may think of take-aways or their curious.
HEALTH, BE A SCEPTIC

BY ANETTE KRUGER

Exercise improves
”
respiration, muscle

strength, circulation,
body composition,
self-esteem,

self-confidence,
independence,

reduces depression

and reduces anxiety.
”

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