When making healthy food choices there’s a lot more to it than just following the colour code on the front of a products box. Although this is a good place to start, having a basic knowledge of what foods you should be eating more of and what foods you should be avoiding is key to eating healthily. To clue you up on some basic healthy eating tips, I asked Nutritional expert Jackie Barber from Pure Balance Natural Therapy to share 10 nutritional tips to help you when making healthy food choices. Specialising in nutrition and wellness for the past 15
Since I started my blog, more and more people have asked me “What are BCAA’s?”. So I thought that I would write this post to clue you up in simple terms and give you the know how on what you should be looking for when purchasing them. In simple terms BCAA stands for Branched-chain Amino Acid. It is an amino acid which has aliphatic side-chains with a branch (a central carbon atom bound to three or more carbon atoms). Among the proteinogenic amino acids, there are three BCAAs: Leucine, Isoleucine and Valine. Science bit over! When purchasing you’ll want to see at least a 2:1:1 ratio
