We hope this post will make you want to incorporate some of our suggestions – even if it’s just one or two.

1. Eat for energy
Not surprisingly food has a big impact on your energy levels. Wolf your food down and you are likely to have a sugar dip and feel sleepy. It’s the same when you eat high sugar or carbohydrate dense foods. Eating foods with a low glycaemic index — whose sugars are absorbed slowly — may help you avoid the lag in energy that typically occurs after eating quickly absorbed sugars or refined starches (cakes, chocolate, white bread, biscuits, etc). Foods with a low glycaemic index include proteins, high-fibre vegetables, nuts and seeds, and healthy oils such as olive oil. In general, high-carbohydrate foods have the highest glycaemic indexes, with white bread scoring just as high as sugar! Proteins from meat, eggs and fish, as well as fats, have glycaemic indexes that are close to zero. The internet is full of information about the glycaemic index of foods. Here’s a guide:

If you’ve been following us on our sugar-free June mission, then congratulations, you’ve almost made it! We hope that, like us, your cravings have disappeared, you feel more healthy, and have made some lifelong changes to your diet as a result.

Congratulations to all who have joined us so far on our sugar-free mission this month – you’ve already done without sugar in your life for one whole week and should be reaping the health rewards. And if you’ve only just found us then why not jump on board, it’s never to late to make a positive change to your diet, and there are still three weeks left to realise the benefits of kicking sugar to the curb.

How you prepare your food is as important as what you eat. If you use a microwave oven, please consider the following information and research.

How microwave ovens work
Microwaves heat food by causing water molecules to resonate at very high frequencies and eventually turn to steam which heats food. It also causes a change in food’s chemical structure.

Another problem with microwave ovens is that carcinogenic toxins can leach out of plastic and paper containers/covers, and into food.

At Nourish we have decided to go entirely sugar-free for the month of June.

Sugar has had a really bad press lately, with national newspapers and prominent scientists labelling it a poisonous substance when it comes to health. The truth is they’re not wrong. At Nourish we are well aware of the many ways in which sugar can disrupt and damage health, and we know the difficulties faced when it comes to giving it up, because it is EVERYWHERE! Most processed foods contain it, and they are cheap, readily available, attractively packaged, cleverly marketed and have a hugely profitable industry driving their manufacture and sales. Most of us, including our children, are addicted to the sweet taste and the rush of energy that sugary foods give us.