Healthidays

09/04/2025

Enjoy your surroundings! 😍

08/04/2025

08/04/2025

How do you fancy this lovely glamping cabin tucked into the olive grove as your retreat accommodation?

14/03/2025

Yes, it’s rained a lot and caused damage. We have roads and bridges blocked and flooded but there’s the rainbow to cheer us up!

27/04/2024

The first FUN…ctional food on my go to list I’d like to share with you is ginger.
Zingiber officinale has been dug up since the beginning of time for its great spicy flavour and multiple health benefits. Its use in Ayurvedic, Chinese traditional and Native American medicine Is well documented.
Scientific evidence from modern clinical studies is mounting that ginger helps promote the capacity to prevent, ease and cure digestive issues, heart disease, arthritis, cancer and many other ailments.
You can find the results of studies at PubMed.com
Did you know that Ginger is 10,000 times more powerful than chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer?
It’s a potent analgesic, anti bacterial, anti oxidant and a natural cancer fighter but how?
It’s the bioactive compounds (or phytonutrients) in foods that influence cellular activity in the body and although ginger contains over 400, there are four main ones responsible for all its medicinal properties.
They are: Gingerol ,Shogaol, Zingiberene and Zingerone
Gingerol is rapidly absorbed into systemic circulation which means it gets to work right away on fighting free radicals causing cellular damage. When ginger is heated or dried, gingerol is converted to shogaol. Shogaols cause cancer cell death.
Zingiberene is mostly found in the peel and prevents and/or slows down cancer cell growth.
Zingerone suppresses tumor progression.
So, you can see why I’m so passionate about using it as well as loving the taste.
I keep fresh and dry ginger in. While some chemical compounds in ginger decrease over time, the drying process enhances other beneficial ones so win/win!
Fresh ginger: I never peel because we’d lose the precious zingiberene. Thinly slice and dice it and add raw to salads, yoghurt or as a snack with walnuts and almonds. I use it in stir fries, curries, sauces and soups and make drinks with it. To juice it, I find it’s best juiced with other fruit or veg such as apple, celery or lemons because it’s so fibrous and this way you get more from it. Ginger tea is delicious, soothing and pampering. Especially great in the evening, it’s soothing on the digestive system, helps curbs cravings (for who tends to do evening snacking) Cut a couple of slices of ginger and infuse for a few minutes in boiling water! Don’t discard the ginger! either eat it or set it aside and use it in something! After cleansing, I massage my face with it before moisturizing. It makes your skin radiant and ha a host of other benefits!
Dry ginger powder is just so easy and versatile you can put it in anythingI I love adding a teaspoon to my super food smoothies. That’s exactly how I got my dose in today, with my breakfast smoothie and then again with my dinner smoothie!
Spice up your life and get going with this precious treasure called ginger!

25/04/2024

30/03/2024

Blessings that this Easter renews your spirit and fills your heart with love, peace and happiness!