How Mindful Eating helps. Our struggles with food cause a huge amount of emotional distress including guilt, shame and depression. Disordered or dysfunctional eating habits of any nature not only cause tremendous suffering and reduces our quality of life, but depending on its severity, damages our health...
Sugar cravings can hit anytime – that unstoppable urge to reach for something sweet, high calorie, junk food. You may curse yourself for your ‘lack of willpower’ but here’s the thing: We are actually genetically programmed to like sugar from the time of our hunter-gatherer...
Inflammation is designed for short, intensive reactions to short-term external danger. We need it for survival. However, when inflammation becomes chronic (long term), it slowly but progressively damages our organs, our health and leads to rapid ageing. Many serious illnesses are caused by chronic inflammation –...
Heartburn is the most common type of indigestion. It feels like a burning sensation behind the breastbone or the feeling that acid is bubbling up from the stomach into the throat. It happens when the muscular ring that keeps the top of the stomach closed...