Easy life improvements to make in 2016

It’s never too late to be what you might have been – George Elliot

• Make the choice to rise every morning with a sense of gratitude.
• Throw away all polyunsaturated oils and improve your health. Replace with coconut oil, butter, goose/duck fat, ghee and olive oil. The immunosuppressing oils in your diet
• Base your diet around organic dairy, fruits and vegetables, eggs, gelatin rich meat from grass-fed animals and fish.
• Listen to your body. Sometimes you might crave salt, sometimes something sweet. The body in its innate wisdom often knows what we need.
• Make a bone broth at least once a week.  Using an organic chicken carcass, chicken wings or left over roast chicken, place in a large pan with 1 stick of celery, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 2 bay leaves, 5 peppercorns and 1 tablespoon of cider vinegar. Cover with water, bring to the boil skimming off any scum on the top and simmer for 2 hours with the lid on. Check the water doesn’t boil dry. Use for soups, stews, or just have a cup.
• Decide to do some form of exercise every day, even if its a 20 minute power walk.
• Get to the root of your health issues. ‘Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity‘.  ~World Health Organization, 1948
• Live in the present. Do not regurgitate the past or hope for what might be to come.
• Don’t sweat the small stuff. Stress less in 2016, more to come on that:-).
• Remember EPIGENETICS and how your environment (emotions, nutrition, exercise, beliefs) influences your health. Don’t get bogged down by gene doom.
• Reflect on Stomatis Moraitis my most loved story this year. Hope when all else fails. The power of Epigenetics