Healthy Living and Eating Well

People have different ideas about what good health means, but there are some general healthy-eating principles that apply to us all. The most important is to consume a wide variety of foods. The food has more goodness when it's fresh and when it's not over-cooked. Fresh fruit and vegetables form an essential part of a healthy diet.

As well as general principles for healthy eating you will find tips in this section that will help you with a number of specific health and well-being issues and to assist you to maintain an appropriate diet.

In particular we provide nutrition and cooking tips for: healthy kids and growing bodies: maintaining a low fat diet; tips for active people to gain high energy and sports performance: nutrition advice especially for women: tips for following a low G.I diet to maintain balanced sugar levels. Our recipe section includes recipes relating to many of these areas. We are particularly grateful to Gabriel Gate for researching and providing many of these tips and special recipes.

You will find " Gabriel Gate's guide to everyday cooking " a great source of practical information with recipes for healthy, fresh and flavoursome meals. You will find details of this book in our links.

We will also be including some general guidelines and tips relating to other types of special diets including vegan, religious and special festivals foods, allergies and other similar matters in the future.

 

General Principles

• Cooking and Eating for Well-being and Longer Life
• Healthy kids and growing bodies
• Kids snacks and lunches
• Low Fat and Healthy Hearts
• Women's Health and Well-being
• Eating Well with Low G.I. - controlling sugar Levels