The Food Babe Way was Vani Hari’s first book (1st edition released in 2015), to help monetize her blog Foodbabe.com. She’s known for her brilliant activism in specifically food ingredient transparency. The target audience for the book are both men and women who want to live healthier lives. It’s definitely not only aimed at women. …
Cape town (South Africa) is a popular tourist destination with plenty of food markets. Expect healthy local street-food, social vibes, good times, and a few crafts. The Neighborgoods Market @ The Old Biscuit Mill The Old Biscuit Mill is a famous Saturday market in Cape Town (375 Albert Rd in Woodstock), popular with tourists and …
Cape Town has great health shops around every corner. The goal of this article is to help you find a few of the best. Buy your supplies at health shops, fix your diet, and be healthier in general. In this way, you waste less money in the medical doctor’s office. Rather get better fuel for …
Bread is a staple food in large parts of the world. Long ago, there wasn’t such a thing as white bread. But some bright nut had the idea to filter out, and throw away, the most nutritious part of the bread flour. Since then, diseases and obesity skyrocketed in society. This includes mental disease, as …
Cape Town has plenty of interesting fruit due to a favorable temperate climate. Winters are cold, but not nearly as cold as European winters. Summers are very hot. Yet the weather isn’t tropical nor humid. It’s dry heat, which peaks at around 40 degrees Celsius in December. So you won’t find tropical fruit farms in …
Rooibos tea (Afrikaans for “Red Bush”) is the famous deep-red colored antioxidant-rich tea from South Africa. It’s also widely consumed in other countries. This is due to its health benefits and unique pleasant taste. What Exactly Is Rooibos Tea? Rooibos tea is made from the plant known as Aspalathus linearis. It traditionally grows on the …
Mango Chili is the perfect exotic fruit/vegetable smoothie combo – fiery, sweet, and healthy, all at once. You may already have noticed the mango on a stick drizzled with chili sauce, at some exotic fruit markets. Yet, our Mango Chili smoothie recipe takes this idea even further. We’ll slice and dice hot chilies, such as …
Watermelon smoothies are relatively uncommon. Everyone knows about strawberry, pineapple, mango or green smoothies. Yet, there’s only a few health nuts who blend juicy red watermelons with bananas, ice and other fruit. The Watermelon plant fruits in Summer. Thus, it’s easiest to find around December and January in the Southern Hemisphere, and June to September …
Spa Zuiver is the best authentic Dutch spa close to the heart of Amsterdam. There are plenty of similar spa’s (Dutch word: “Thermen”) dispersed throughout the Netherlands, as well as in other European countries like Germany (e.g. Friedrichsbad). A spa in Europe is basically a concentration of saunas, plunge pools, swimming pools, jacuzzi’s, and relaxation …
Stellenbosch is a town 40km from Cape Town, mostly known as being the epicentre of South Africa’s wine region. Although red grapes (thus wine) do contain the anti-oxidant Resveratrol, this won’t be the focus of this post. As health awareness increases, demand for healthier products goes up as well. In Stellenbosch, this can be sub-divided …