Category: Healthy Living
How the microbiome can impact mental health: Exploring the link between gut health and anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions.
In this article, we will explore the close link between gut health and mental well-being, as well as how your…
Personalised nutrition and chronic disease management: Nutrition plans for Managing Chronic Diseases like Diabetes and Heart Disease
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living, Lifestyle Diseases
This article discusses how personalised nutrition plans can be effective for managing chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.…
5 Healthy Meat Substitutes
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
I love meat, and I eat meat – less and less in the past few years, but my body still…
How to Add Veggies to Breakfast
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
Termed “the most important meal of the day”, breakfast is often underestimated. When we break the overnight fast with the…
Positive Habits in the Time of Lockdown
Articles, Healthy Living, Mindfulness
It has been 6 weeks since South Africa embarked on a countrywide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus…
Consider Your Food Footprint
Articles, Farming, Healthy Living
Have you considered the footprint of the food you eat?A lot seems uncertain at the moment. With the trajectory of…
Time for Tea!
Tea is the perfect antidote to the dreaded cold and flu season, so we’re looking at some tea options to…
Fun ways to nurture mind and soul
Articles, Healthy Living, Lifestyle Diseases, Mindfulness
Good health is not only about looking after your body, it’s a holistic approach that includes the wellbeing of your…
How to Keep Organic Veg Fresh for Longer
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
At Abundance Wholesome Foods, our vegetables are not treated with food additives or chemicals to extend the shelf life of…
How to do a Plant-based Braai
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
Whether it’s for health and wellbeing, caring for animals or the climate crisis, plant-based eating is gaining momentum and popping…
Conscious Cooking
Articles, Healthy Living, Mindfulness
With all the buzz around eating for health, trendy diets, what to eat and what not to eat, making food…
6 Keys to Good Health
Articles, Healthy Living, Lifestyle Diseases
With so much available information on lifestyle diseases, it’s easy to think that achieving good health is unrealistic.While not easy,…
Plastic-free Living
Articles, Farming, Healthy Living
In the past couple of months at Abundance Wholesome Foods, we have received several enquiries from potential customers about our…
Get Physical on Move for Health Day
If there is an opportunity to make new commitments to physical activity at this time of the year, World Move…
Why Organic Produce Costs More
Articles, Farming, Healthy Living
As the world continues to commemorate World Health Day which was on the 7th of April 2019, we want to…
Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere
Articles, Healthy Living, Lifestyle Diseases
Since 1950, the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have been commemorating World Health Day on the…
South Africa – World’s Most Unhealthy Country
Articles, Healthy Living, Lifestyle Diseases
As part of 191 countries studied for being the healthiest and unhealthiest, South Africa is the unhealthiest in 2019. You…
The SMART Way to Achieve Your Health Goals
Feeling a bit bloated and uncomfortable from the festive eating spree? Here’s some SMART motivation to start your new year…
5 Tips to Calm Down in a Hurry
Articles, Healthy Living, Mindfulness
Whether it’s work, family or an overly critical friend that’s upsetting your sense of calm, the first thing to do…
There’s No Sugar-coating Diabetes in SA
Articles, Diabetes, Healthy Living, Lifestyle Diseases
While we don’t believe in scaring people into submission, the facts around diabetes in South Africa are pretty frightening, and…
5 Things You Need To Know About Stroke
Articles, Diabetes, Healthy Living, Heart Disease, Lifestyle Diseases
Every day in South Africa nearly 240 people will suffer a stroke and nearly 70 people will die as a…
Are You Suffering From Everyday ADD?
Articles, Healthy Living, Mindfulness
By YageshYou may have heard this alarming statistic: the human attention span is down to eight seconds, which is less…
Food Security Affects Everyone – Even You
Articles, Farming, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
In simple terms, food security means that every citizen should have enough food to live an active and healthy life.…
Why We Need To Decolonise Our Diet
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
Decolonising our diets is not about making a political statement, it’s about getting back to the basics of what food…
5 Easy Ways to Avoid Heart Disease
Articles, Healthy Living, Heart Disease, Lifestyle Diseases
While there are certainly factors that make us predisposed to heart disease, there is still plenty we can do to…
Get More From Your Produce – Buy Seasonal!
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
We love the advice to 1) Eat colourfully 2) Eat seasonally and 3) Eat locally! Today we’re tackling the seasonal…
Organic Food – What’s the Big Fuss?
Articles, Food and Diet, Healthy Living
You’ve heard the term and seen the labels in stores, but what is the organic movement all about and why…