Edinburgh Diet Challenge – Eat a superfood every day

Its Friday once again and this week our challenge involves eating one of the food groups that are known as superfoods because of the high levels of nutrients, antioxidant and minerals they contain to help us stay healthy.

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can you challenge yourself for one week?

You can either eat a different superfood every day, choose the same one every day or find one and eat it 2-3 times then change to another for the rest of the week. How you work this out is up to you the most important thing here is finding a superfood that you wouldn’t normally eat and include it in your meals for the week.

You can find a blog post on 3 highly nutritional superfoods <— click the link to read it.

Below is a sample list of superfoods you can consider:

  • Almonds
  • Brazil nuts (and most seeds and nuts except salted peanuts)
  • Broccoli
  • Butternut squash
  • Green leafy vegetables (e.g. spinach)
  • Salmon (Sardines, Kippers and other oily fish)
  • Sweet potato
  • Oats

You can easily eat 6-7 nuts with your lunch and you have introduced one superfood already! See if you can introduce these foods into your normal eating plan rather than go out of your way to make something special (although you can do that too).

If you need help with changing the way you eat a nutritionist can help you do that easily by showing you how easy it is to introduce new foods. Call us on 0131 221 1415 to speak to our nutritionist.

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Exercises to help Plantar Fasciitis

Today’s video is for people who suffer with plantar fasciitis or for anyone who knows someone that does. I cover a few exercises that can be easily added into anyone’s daily routine, which will really help to treat this condition. Massage therapy will also help.

This is the first of a series of videos that are part of my rehabilitation training that will be running over the next 12 weeks so look out for more.

You will find a complete definition of Plantar Fasciitis over at Wikipedia if you need one

If you need the support of a personal trainer to help you through plantar fasciitis or any other kind of rehabilitation injury please call Oliver Jessop on 0131 221 1415 for an informal discussion.

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Final back pain guide 10

This is our final back pain guide in our series and it outlines the previous nine guides so you have a complete summary of what was covered in each one.

It also provides links to the many low back exercises we have provided and other information

If you need the support of a nutritionist, personal trainer or osteopath in Edinburgh to help improve your health and well-being please contact the active-x office on 0131 221 1415 and we will be happy to discuss how we can help.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BACK PAIN GUIDE 10

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12 week rehabilitation exercise series with personal trainer Oliver Jessop

Our Director of Exercise and personal trainer Oliver is currently putting together a 12 week video series on rehabilitation after injury that will appear on our blog starting soon so watch this space!

In the meantime if you are looking to regain your strength after injury call Oliver on 0131 221 1415 to speak to him about how he can help.

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