What constitutes healthy eating? It may be a simple question, but there’s definitely no simple answer. Your response will depend largely on where you fall in the food spectrum – from the banting brigade to the paleo platoon, the list of current eating plans are endless. Then there’s the issue of sustainability, defined as ‘those diets with low environmental impacts which contribute to food and nutrition security and to healthy life for present and future generations’ – as I said, no simple answer. It’s easy to become overwhelmed by the sheer volume of choices and information out there so the best advice is usually to practise moderation and to choose a few credible voices that cut through the dietary noise. If you’re wondering where to begin, below are three organisations and three individuals highly valued in the world of balanced and healthy eating – add them to your newsfeed for insight and inspiration.
Focusing on the process of farm-to-fork sustainability, Ecocentric is the mouthpiece of The Sustainable Table which aims to ‘develop innovative strategies to increase public awareness of the critical environmental and public health issues created by our current industrial food system, and to advocate for more sustainable alternatives’.
Begun in 1989 by Italian, Carlo Petrini, Slow Food was ‘founded to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions; counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us.’
Billed as the ‘where good taste meets good health’ site, EatingWell enlists 16 bloggers who cover a wide range of topics that inspire people to make healthy eating a way of life. With well over 1,000 blog entries, there’s something for everyone.
Stephanie Le is the Canadian girl behind I am a Food Blog – winner of Saveur Magazine’s 2014 Editors Choice for Best Cooking Blog and Blog of the Year. Her recipes range from ‘fun and unfussy to a little more involved, but ultimately … all delicious’. She provides 86 of the best meat recipes on the internet.
Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley are the sisters behind Hemsley + Hemsley – a brand unto themselves; they are home cooks and food lovers with a passion for wellness and delicious, nutrient-dense recipes which are free from grain, gluten and refined sugar. They’ve written a bestselling cookbook The Art of Eating Well and they’re about to launch their first café in Selfridges.
And finally there’s Conor Bofin, the Irish voice behind One Man’s Meat – winner of both the Best Overall Blog Award, and the Best Food and Drink Blog in the 2014 Blog Awards Ireland. His blogs deal in all things delectably meaty from his The True Story of The Field Marshal’s Ham Wellington to Stay out of the kitchen! I’m busy with the lamb shanks.
