How Can Yoga Help With Osteoporosis?

Yoga is an ideal exercise to help you improve your bone health. Yoga includes weight-bearing, balance, resistance training, plus much more. Yoga can improve bone density and bone quality, increase joint mobility and comfort, reduce stress and reduce your risk of falling.

Christmas Apricots and Dates

Desserts for Bones? This is a recipe from my book Divine Vegan Desserts.   Yes, there is a lot of natural sugar in the recipe, but these delicious sweet treats are also packed full of nutrients that bones love, including calcium, magnesium, protein, vitamin C and boron.   To find out more about which nutrients […]

Vegan Buddha Bowls (Nourish Bowls) for Healthy Bones

What are Buddha Bowls? These bowls full of delicious healthy ingredients have become popular in recent years, but why do we call them Buddha bowls?   Some say that the name derives from the Buddha carrying around a bowl to receive offerings of food from people throughout the day.    The name also indicates that […]

Almond and Sesame Milk

This is one of my favourite homemade plant milks.   While the basic Almond Milk recipe already has many health benefits, adding sesame to the mix brings a whole lot more.    Sesame seeds are very high in calcium, magnesium, zinc and selenium, making this recipe very good for your bones and for your immune system   Like […]

Extraordinarily Simple Dahl

Dahl is a high protein, high fibre, low fat nutritious and tasty meal. Just one serve of this dahl provides 26% of your daily fibre and 17% of your daily iron. This is a super simple dahl for an easy lunch or dinner. You can add any steamed veggies, or have with a side salad. 

Why every woman should care about her bone health

If you have never even thought about osteoporosis, or considered doing anything to improve your bone health, that is totally understandable. Why would you worry about something that may happen far in the future? Osteoporosis is something that affects you when you are old, right? Not really… Osteoporosis literally means ‘brittle bones’ – bones that […]