Topics: Healthy Eating
5 foods to boost your mood
There is growing evidence showing that certain foods can help improve your overall mood and reduce the risks and symptoms of depression. While there is no single food or nutrient to prevent or cure depression, consuming a variety of vegetables, lean protein, legumes, nuts, whole grains, and low-fat dairy can help you improve your mental. . .
Taming Arthritis: A Guide to Anti-Inflammatory Eating
For those living with arthritis, some of the most popular tools to fight against inflammation can be found at the grocery store. Yet with so much nutritional advice and options available today, even navigating these aisles can be overwhelming – which foods are the optimal ones to choose, and which should be avoided? Understanding inflammation. . .
Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes
The best cooking oils for arthritis
“Cooking oils are fats used in recipes to add flavour and enhance nutrient availability, particularly fat-soluble fats like vitamins A, E, D and K and antioxidants such as lycopene,” says Cristina Montoya, a registered dietician who lives with arthritis. “Cutting out fats from your diet could be detrimental to your overall health.” Rather, she says. . .
Why weight loss matters when you live with arthritis
While it’s only human nature to avoid workouts or reach for higher-calorie comfort foods when you’re sore and tired, it’s important to figure out healthy food and exercise choices that work for your situation. Reducing excess body weight is a key part of arthritis self-management, along with exercise, healthy eating, relaxation techniques, joint protection, and. . .
Understanding nutrition labels on food
Eating well can play a large role in helping you manage arthritis symptoms, so understanding nutrition labels is important. Certain ingredients can make arthritis symptoms worse, such as added sugar that can contribute to fatigue, or unhealthy fats and refined carbohydrates that can contribute to inflammation. Carrying excess weight can also put additional stress on joints. Learn how to. . .
Ginger blueberry smoothie
Total Time: 5 minutes | *Servings: 1 This nutritious smoothie is easy to make and bursting with surprising aromatic flavour. Frozen blueberries can be enjoyed year-round and are rich in anthocyanins – an antioxidant that helps reduce inflammation and oxidative stress. Ginger may help manage symptoms of arthritis by reducing inflammation and. . .
What you need to know about food and inflammation
Understanding inflammation One challenge of living with arthritis is managing inflammation. There are two different types of inflammation, acute and chronic. Our immune system sends out inflammatory cells to protect us from bacteria and viruses or to help heal an injury, which is important to our health. This is called acute inflammation. However, sometimes our. . .
