This is one of those tricky questions for the answer is not the same for every person. It all depends on the person as to what may be most suitable. I used to think that people cooked their food too often and were destroying the enzymes making their meal less nutrient dense and believed that raw foods were the better choice. However, while there is a loss to some nutrients when cooked, there is also a gain in some other nutrients and more importantly it can be much easier on the digestive system to eat cooked food. In this article, I will take a look at the pros and cons of eating raw versus cooked to help you determine what works best for you.
Why You Should Be Drinking BONE BROTH To Improve Gut Health
Without a shadow of a doubt the single greatest improvement I have added to my life over the last few years has been the addition of bone broth to my diet. I drink a Tumeric flavoured bone broth at least 3 times per week and the changes it has provided to my body are astounding. The most noticeable difference has been my gut health, but other benefits like increased energy levels, less joint pain, and improved mood are things I now feel since adding this to my lifestyle. What exactly is in this drink that makes it so good? And why do so many other people like myself swear by it as something to include in your diet? In this article, I will explain what makes this unique drink so powerful to your health and a great recipe you can use to make your own drink.
Best Exercises To Improve Grip Strength and Function of Your Wrist & Fingers
One of the most common areas people experience chronic pain is in their wrist and fingers. There are many reasons for this ranging from auto-immune inflammatory conditions to over-use and repetitive activities to traumatic accidents in sports. Your hands are made up of lots of little bone connections and are particularly vulnerable to pain and swelling when something goes wrong. Also the fact that you need to use your hands to complete many of your daily tasks, greatly diminishes their ability to heal. Therefore, it is critical that you find ways to combat the ongoing stiffness and pain with exercises to restore their mobility and strength to avoid disrupting your entire life. In this article, I will discuss some great exercises you can use to do this and the best part is they are great at preventing problems if you don’t have anything wrong with your hands!
Why Gut Health Is Critical To The Immune System & Overall Health
Gut health is a term that is thrown around a lot in the media these days but like everything to do with health it is very rarely explained well enough for the average person to understand. I am sure if it was explained correctly the information I am going to share in this article would be common knowledge and many of the chronic health problems we see today would either not exist or managed much better than they currently are. Gut health is something that I rate very highly for myself as it is something I have struggled with at times over the years and has been a big part of me developing an auto-immune disease. The first thing most people think of when they hear the term ‘gut health’ is how our body digests food. While this is definitely its major role, gut health is so much more than that as it can have a direct impact on the health of your entire body. It can influence the health of our immune system, and even your mental health, and works extremely hard to keep us healthy and happy. Our gut breaks down the meals we eat into a functional form that can enter the bloodstream and go where it is needed in the body. Unfortunately, our modern lifestyle with poor nutrition and high levels of stress can greatly affect the health of our gut leaving our body exposed to serious digestive diseases to food intolerance causing problems with how our body extracts nutrients from food. The message is clear, when gut health is compromised, we are guaranteed to face major health consequences.