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FOOD + NUTRITION
Simply rawsome!

Simply rawsome!
The warm summer months are ideally suited to starting your raw food adventure with the season’s cornucopia of colourful fruits and vegetables. Eating more raw vegetables or adopting an entirely raw diet will give you an enormous boost in energy.
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Add protein, burn calories

Add protein, burn calories
When you eat, a certain amount of calories are burned simply by the energy required to digest, absorb, transport, and store the food. This is called the thermic effect of food, or thermogenesis. To process protein requires a 30 percent expenditure of energy—the highest of all macronutrients.
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Great catch!

Great catch!
From disease-dodging omega-3s to copious amounts of protein to a treasure trove of vital vitamins and minerals, there’s a boatload of reasons to give fish top billing on your summer menu.
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