YOUR healthy life
Small change, big benefits
Think you have to make huge, sweeping changes to what you put on your plate in order to have any chance of improving your health with your diet? The results of a new study suggest otherwise. Researchers in the US discovered that while eating a hot dog shaves 36 minutes of healthy life from your lifespan, eating a serving of nuts instead can ‘buy’ you 26 minutes of healthy life. In fact, just by substituting 10 per cent of the daily kilojoules you’d usually get from red and processed meats for a mix of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes instead, you’ll gain 48 minutes of healthy life. An added bonus? By doing that, you’ll also reduce your dietary carbon footprint by a third. So every small change counts, for both your health and the environment’s.
How I’ve Kept the Weight Off
By Anna Van Dyken Macmillan Australia, $39.99
WW phenomenon and Instagram dynamo Anna Van Dyken not only lost 70kg, she’s kept it off for the last five years.
