Thank so much for those who took part in this weekend game! You rock!!! 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 And our winner this week is @Amanda Mirrlees !!!! She logged an entry for each of the 15 entries. Congrats!!! 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 We did the supermarket games before - you can check them here. But this weekend let´s try something different. I will post some comments with products and meals, and YOU have to rate those with green, yellow, red and explain why you gave that score; 🟢 = great 🟡= OK-ish 🔴= no way So, let´s play! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 START: Saturday May 9th 10.00 (UK TIME) END: Sunday May 10th, 20.00 (UK TIME) WINNER: the person that engages the most PRIZE: Move to Premium Membership 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 It´s a great way to engage and level up, especially for the new commers 😍

Good morning, you all! 🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑 @Dietrick Kooyman has just reached LEVEL 7 (AVOCADO LEVEL)! The very first to get to Level 7! 🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉🥑🎉 He is present on all leaderboards, he is active since he joined and I am so happy that he is here! Let me help congratulate him today!!!

If you’re new, you’re in the right place. This community exists to help you reduce chronic inflammation through simple habits, real food and a Mediterranean approach to daily living. Practical steps that work in real life, no extremes. You can find our plans here. So, let´s do this! 1. Post a photo of a vegetable /fruit that you have right now at home Ugly photos encouraged, we are not on Instagram :) 2. Introduce Yourself Post a short introduction so we can welcome you. Share: - Where you’re from - What brought you here - One habit you want to improve This helps you connect with others and gives you a clear starting point. 3. Go to the Classroom to start the process: click here Start whenever you’re ready.

We went on an evening hike today, and my son came around a bend in the path and said he’d found some weird looking mushrooms. I got so excited! Look at these beauties! I’ve been looking for morels in our area for 10 years! I’m try to decide how many I cook and how many I use to spread spore around our yard.

There is a phenomenon that engineers discovered, somewhat to their embarrassment, only after they had spent decades trying to straighten rivers. In the name of flood control and agricultural efficiency, they lined the banks with concrete, cut the curves, and forced the water into a direct, efficient channel. The result, they assumed, would be a calmer, more manageable river. What they got instead was the opposite. The water, deprived of its natural meanders, accelerated and scoured the riverbed. It carried away sediment that had taken centuries to accumulate. The straightened river, designed to be more orderly, became the source of the very floods it was meant to prevent. The river needed its bends. Not despite the fact that they were inefficient, but because of it. Your autonomic nervous system is, in its own way, a river with two banks. On one side runs the sympathetic branch - the accelerator, the one that floods your body with adrenaline and cortisol when a deadline looms, a car brakes suddenly or an email arrives at midnight with a subject line that makes your stomach drop. On the other side, the parasympathetic branch - the brake, the one that slows the heart, deepens the breath and tells the digestive system it is finally safe to work. In a healthy system, these two forces don't simply alternate; they "dance". Every heartbeat, in fact, is a tiny negotiation between them. The interval between one beat and the next is never perfectly identical. It stretches and contracts in subtle, rhythmic variation - a phenomenon cardiologists call heart rate variability, or HRV. A high HRV is not a racing heart; it is a flexible one. It is the physiological signature of a nervous system that can bend. And like the engineers' river, we have spent much of modern life trying to straighten it. Chronic stress does not simply mean feeling overwhelmed. At a biological level, it means the sympathetic accelerator is engaged far more often than the body was designed to sustain. The cortisol that was meant to spike and then dissolve, becomes a low, continuous background radiation of threat and the body cannot distinguish from a predator in the grass. The parasympathetic brake, the one that is supposed to restore and rebuild, barely gets a turn.