8 of the Healthiest Long-Life Foods Your Body Will Love

The team who work at Gracewell Healthcare know the importance of maintaining a healthy work/
life balance. However, they have also learnt that it's hard to keep up a healthy diet when you are
constantly on the move. It's for this reason that they've come up with this list of foods that are long
lasting, high in nutritional value and easily stored in different areas of the home or office.

Organic Oats – Pantry

The best way of starting a busy day is to enjoy a bowl of granola, with delicious organic oats. You can store this type of food in the pantry for anywhere up to 3 months. The beta-glucan fibre found within the oats will keep your levels of serum cholesterol down, so that you are at a reduced risk of heart attacks and atherosclerosis.

Tee-Total Time

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I used to be quite a heavy drinker, I guess a lot of students are though. It always seemed perfectly acceptable to have a bottle of vodka before going out, shots and 99p bottles of fizzy e-numbers before somehow managing to make it home in one piece. I've had some close calls, I was beaten up by a rapist whilst drunkenly stumbling home in 2002, luckily a passer by saved me from what could have happened.

A few years ago I decided to really cut down on my consumption. Several nights where I could literally only remember the first two drinks then all's a blank until I woke up in bed, fully clothed, feeling like I was dying of death.

Since then I've still been drinking alcohol, and I've certainly had a few crazy nights and bleary memories. Recently I've started to notice just how bad my body feels even after just a few drinks. I get lethargic for days, headaches, dehydrated, tummy aches and really really grouchy.

So when @millwall_embo decided to quit drinking for the rest of the year I thought perhaps I'd join her for a while. For the next month (at least) I'm going to be a tee-totaler. I'm going to join some of the greats like Muhammad Ali, Brian Blessed and Catherine Tate. I'm not saying it's going to be forever, just for now.

Vegan Breakfast Smoothie

I'm not a big fan of eating in the mornings so a smoothie is the perfect option. This is my current favourite...

Ingredients
1 banana
handful frozen berries
a few leaves of chard (or spinach)
Soya/Rice/Coconut milk
Protein powder & instant oats (optional)

Method
Put all the ingredients in a blender and whizz. Keep adding soya milk until you get to the consistency you want - I like mine quite thick. Pour into a glass and enjoy!

What's so good?
Bananas - full of slow releasing carbohydrates for energy, potassium to keep your blood pressure down and loads of vitamin B6 to help boost the immune system.
Berries - packed with anti-oxidants for clear skin and vitamin c to boost your immune system even more.
Chard - loads and loads of vitamins!

5 Easy Steps to Healthy Living

After deciding to ditch the chemicals in my cosmetics cupboard it felt a bit silly to not give my diet a bit of an overhaul too. I've never bothered much about what I eat, thinking Pot Noodle and a Diet Coke is a perfectly acceptable lunch most of my life. When I started to really think about things though, there's an awful lot of rubbish in what we eat. I remember looking at a flapjack in the local shop, made locally by a local company. It contained 23 different e-numbers. When I make flapjacks there's only about 5 ingredients.

So, I made some changes. And what have I found? I'm happier, my skin looks better and I have more energy. Here's how you can get those same benefits.