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Recipe This recipe is packed with nutritious ingredients, helping to lower total cholesterol, promote a healthy heart, and help maintain a healthy immune system.
Pick porridge packed with nutrient-rich grains for a super-healthy start to your day that will sustain you till lunchtime. Start the Day Right
Porridge Power! • ½ cup Brookfarm Gluten Free Porridge • 1 ½ cups coconut milk, or other plant-based milk • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon • ½ teaspoon ground ginger, or 1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger • 1 serve protein powder Place all ingredients, except protein powder, in a saucepan. Bring to the boil and then reduce heat and simmer until thick, creamy and cooked through. Remove from the heat and stir through protein powder. Spoon into a bowl and add your favourite toppings – berries, nuts and seeds, toasted coconut flakes • ¼ teaspoon turmeric • pinch of black pepper
A high-fibre diet is mandatory for good health. To put it plainly, if you are not emptying waste from your body regularly – ideally, at least once every 24 hours – then it is sitting there in your gut making you feel sluggish and potentially causing more serious health problems. Fibre heroes To keep your gut and bowels happy and functioning at their best, eat food that has retained its original fibre, such as fruit instead of fruit juice. Include plenty of dried fruits, nuts, legumes and seeds, especially chia and flaxseed, in your daily diet. Increase the amount of healthy oils you eat – flaxseed oil, coconut oil and other cold-pressed seed or nut oils can all help to lubricate the gut and regulate the transit time it takes for food to pass through your 9-metre-long digestive tract.
8 All-Natural Ingredients The best tip is to eat a cereal blend containing different wholegrains for breakfast, rather than highly processed cereals. For example, brown rice and quinoa improve bowel health and function by swelling in the gut, making stools easier to pass, while almonds, flaxseed and macadamias create bulk and cinnamon is a traditional herbal treatment for reducing digestive muscle spasm and tension. Go Vita loves … Brookfarm Gluten Free Porridge . This all-natural gourmet blend has been lovingly created in the Brook family kitchen and is produced locally in their Northern Rivers NSW bakehouse. It contains protein-rich quinoa, Australian macadamias and almonds, premium wholegrains, nuts and seeds, polenta and flaxseed for better gut health, plus a touch of warming cinnamon.
and perhaps a few chunks of organic dark chocolate.
Australian macadamias & almonds Protein rich quinoa
86% premium whole grains, nuts & seeds Fibre rich polenta & flaxseeds for gut health Hint of cinnamon
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Available at Go Vita
ISSUE 71 • 2024
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