July 05, 2020

Best Stress-Relieving Foods: What, When and How to Eat When You’re Stressed ?

July 05, 2020/ Jaime Tan

In this week's video, I share with you not only WHAT to eat to more effectively manage stress, but also WHEN and HOW to eat - the often forgotten part of eating.

All of these factors will affect how you function and perform throughout your day. What, when and how you eat is going to really affect your stress levels. It’s the difference between keeping you in a high-stressed state versus helping to keep you calm and grounded, able to power through your day with ease.

June 14, 2020

Is Your Coffee Habit Doing More Harm than Good in Stressful Times?

June 14, 2020/ Jaime Tan

Let me start by saying: Coffee is NOT evil. It’s got loads of polyphenols that have health-promoting properties - such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-diabetes, and antihypertensive properties.

BUT.

If you’re highly stressed, exhausted all the time but wired and can’t fall asleep - you need to understand why excessive coffee (caffeine, really) is actually keeping you in this high alert - high stress mode…

February 05, 2020

How-To-Make Hazelnut Butter & Home-Made Nutella Banana Smoothie

February 05, 2020/ Jaime Tan

HAPPY NUTELLA DAY!! Yup, this day exists. I've been craving Nutella recently… but have you read what's on that Nutella label? Ewwwww. It becomes way less appetising with all that sugar, milk powder and unpronounceable chemicals. So I figured I'd make my own out of home-made nut butter and raw cacao nibs. What could go wrong. ...Right?

January 05, 2020

5 Reasons You're Ready to Up-Level Your Health And Make It a Priority!

January 05, 2020/ Jaime Tan

Happy 2020! It’s about this time of year when yoga studios, gyms and fitness centres are rammed full of people, ready to take action on their new year’s resolutions.

But will you be one of those who makes it through consistently till the end of the year, or will you not even make it to the end of January?

December 08, 2019

9 Healthy Snack Ideas for the Busy Person Travelling

December 08, 2019/ Jaime Tan

As it’s the time of year when more people are gearing up to travel for the holidays, I thought I’d write up some handy snacks you could take with you while you’re on-the-road. As someone who travels often at my day job as an Executive Producer in advertising, I have a stash of healthy travel snack ideas you can pull from here…

November 24, 2019

5 Natural Remedies to Help Detox After Partying Too Hard

November 24, 2019/ Jaime Tan

It’s that time of year again… The moment we start heading into Thanksgiving, that means we’re pretty much kicking off into the end-of-year PARTY SEASON!!

You’ve worked hard all year, so if that means you get to slack off just a little bit in the next few weeks and head to All. The. December. Parties… go on then, why not. And if you’ve over-indulged just a wee bit…

October 14, 2019

Why is What You Eat Important To Maintain Balance in Your Busy Life?

October 14, 2019/ Jaime Tan

We’ve all heard the adage “you are what you eat”. This rings true especially when you’ve got a lot going on in life, juggling loads of different hats at work and at home. When you’re trying to maintain balance, what you eat is exceptionally important to help you maintain peak performance both physically and mentally…

July 13, 2019

A Wellness Expert’s Guide to 6 Best Smoothie + Juice Bars in Amsterdam (July 2019)

July 13, 2019/ Jaime Tan

Following on from my previous recommendations of the 21 best healthy-ish restaurants as well as the 7 best coffee/ cafés in Amsterdam, next up - we’ve got the best smoothie and juice bars in town.

Firstly, my big dislike with the majority of smoothie places is - there’s too much fruit and not enough greens in…