Chew Consciously

Did you know that eating raw food awakens your tastebuds and raw food recipes are absolutely PACKED with flavour, resulting in sheer PLEASURE! Who knew eating healthily could taste so good?

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Helena Cavan
Letter from America 5/5

This penetrating relaxing heat is the infrared wavelengths coming from the sun, known as electromagnetic radiation (EMR), with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, and is therefore invisible but absolutely noticeable!

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Helena Cavan
Letter from America 4/5 – Climbing Mountains

We all have to get around our mountain eventually, don’t we? Being stuck on the wrong side of our goals sucks. I think of the Israelites on their journey from Egypt to Canaan and how many times they circled around the same mountains for forty years, wanting to get to their promised land.

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Helena Cavan
Letter from America 3/5

It’s July 4th today and for the first time in 22 years, I’ll be attending my family’s yearly reunion with over 100 people in attendance! They gather on the site of the old homestead on the shores of Lake Alder

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Helena Cavan
Watercress Summer Recipes

Watercress possesses a flavour rather reminiscent of mustard but with a zingy “bite” that makes it something of an acquired taste. So what makes this “bite” so important? It’s one very beneficial nutrient that contains the anticancer compound, Phenethyl Isothiocyanate or PEITC. 

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Helena Cavan
Sweating It Out

How do we replace our water and salts to avoid headaches and lethargy in summer heat?
By drinking enough water and non-sugar/alcohol/sweetener/caffeinated drinks for our body weight and by eating nature’s solutions for this time of year

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Helena Cavan
Water for Dodgy Tummies

Ginger is one of my 3 “kill-alls” as it can kill much of what’s trying to kill you! It’s anti-just-about-everything properties form a very long list but one of ginger’s primary benefits this time of year is as an antihistamine – so it helps with hayfever, allergies and asthma.

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Helena Cavan
Roses and Pimms

We brought back a couple of kg of dried hibiscus flowers from our holiday in Egypt at Christmas and enjoy drinking hot and cold hibiscus as a family. You can sweeten it with stevia or xylitol but we like it just as it is, without any sweetening.

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Helena Cavan
The May Manifesto

Have you ever thought about what your own personal manifesto might be? What do you stand for? Have you ever paused to think about what your “No’s” and “Yes’s” are?

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Helena Cavan
Get Lymphasizing!

When was the last time you took a really good walk? Whether you walk to work or went for a leisure walk, do you remember the feeling afterwards? Do you get that clean, happily tired and perhaps even drowsy post-walk feeling? I love it!

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Helena Cavan
Happy Spring! It Starts Today!

Spring is here! Now is the time to really pay attention to how much water you’re drinking and upload some ingredients that will help to clean you out and kill the bugs – namely the liver supporters: raw ginger, raw garlic and raw (if you can get it) turmeric.

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Helena Cavan