Gut-friendly recipes guaranteed to nourish your microbiome

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Hello!

Autumn has become a season of healthy habits and new starts and doing a diet overhaul seems to be right up there with giving up drinking (hello, Sober October and the last wine-with-dinner weekend!) Here, Hannah Twiggs serves up some of the best gut-friendly recipes guaranteed to nourish your microbiome and hit your 30 plant points a week target.

Meanwhile, if you are trying to up your step count we have a fitness expert on hand to show you the best way to set and stick to a new personal plan. Anna Magee has also looked at the 10,000 steps a day myth and how many we really should be doing for our fitness levels and weight loss.

Another common struggle in September is "wardrobe dysmorphia"—that strange feeling where, despite a closet full of clothes, it seems like there's nothing to wear as the seasons shift. It is something which Rebecca Willis, a former editor of Vogue, knows all too well and thinks she has found a cure for. Read her advice here.

Until next week!

Vicki Harper

Assistant Editor

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