Ultimate Hangover Cure – Eat Well and Have Fun We are going to explore how the body responds to drinking alcohol and therefore how we can help reduce the hangover feeling! Alcohol often leaves us feeling dehydrated, tired, with a headache and at its worst nauseous leading to sickness and vomiting. Understanding the body’s response to alcohol can help us take measures to reduce its negative impact whilst still enjoying ourselves.    Eating before and during drinking alcohol is helpful. Having alcohol on an empty stomach will magnify its effects because not only is the alcohol absorbed ..read more

Christmas is a time for socialising, enjoyment and celebration. You probably won’t be thinking about whether your meal is particularly healthy. You don’t have to because it is, so just enjoy it! So why is your Christmas dinner good for your health? The traditional Christmas meal of roast with all the vegetables and trimmings is incredibly nutrient-dense. It has plenty of macronutrients, micronutrients and flavonoids to keep us in tip-top health during the festive season.    There are a whole array of nutrients to support our mood, energy, memory (always good when the party games get ..read more

The health benefits of dark chocolate Chocolate is derived from the beans of the Theobroma cacao tree. The numerous health benefits of dark chocolate and cacao powder are mainly provided by its dense phytonutrient and mineral content.    Phytonutrients are compounds in plants that give them colour, smell and taste. They are biologically active and food often contains more than one type of phytochemical and, therefore, present several biological actions that can support health.    Cacao contains a number of different phytochemicals that have been researched for their health ..read more

What is the Menopause Diet? Let’s explore what to eat!    This phase in your life comes with its challenges and adopting a menopause diet is a smart choice. Your body has been cycling every month for many years with the hormones oestrogen and progesterone fluctuating within a pattern throughout the menstrual cycle.    When you reach peri-menopause, that’s the time in your life when you are coming to the end of your reproductive years, those hormone levels start changing and bring along with them some undesirable symptoms!   It’s important to be in the best state of hea ..read more

Menopause Diet: Manage your symptoms with food How you can use your diet to help you pass smoothly through the period when your hormones are changing and you’re coming to the end of your reproductive years?   These years of change are known as the peri-menopause and can last up to 12 years beginning anywhere from the late thirties onwards. Menopause is defined as 12 months after your last period.   Before we look at how food can help this period in a woman’s life that is dreaded by most, firstly it’s important to understand what is happening throughout these years.    Durin ..read more

Use healthy herbs and spices and see how easy it is to incorporate them into your everyday diets.   They shouldn’t be forgotten just because we add them to our food in small quantities. When used consistently as part of a varied diet they not only add flavour to dishes but contribute valuable health benefits.   Even though many studies demonstrating therapeutic health benefits are performed on extracts, in other words on specific compounds within a herb or spice and often in high quantities, that doesn’t make using them within our cooking any less important.    Herbs and sp ..read more

Shahdan Mahmoud has a passion for cooking and recipe development and is the co-founder of www.cairocooking.com. CairoCooking is a collaborative platform spreading cooking inspirations between passionate home cooks. It is brought to you by three obsessive home cooks serious about putting love on the table for their friends and family. Appreciative of the process of turning wholesome ingredients into wonderful dishes, they aim to find recipes that inspire and teach you new tips and tricks. With CairoCooking, you can search through the contributors’ recipes or create your own recipe book and take ..read more

  Magnesium is an important mineral for health. Magnesium is involved in hundreds of enzymatic reactions in the body making it important to multiple health areas.    Of particular note are; its role in, neurological health, muscular contraction, heart function and blood pressure regulation, energy production, blood sugar control, hormone secretion including stress hormones, bone health and protein and DNA synthesis.    In numerous studies, low magnesium status has been demonstrated to be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and inversely associat ..read more