Top 10 Healthy Food trends of 2015

The holidays are a great time to life-hack your diet with nutrition and healthy lifestyle commitments. It takes knowledge, discipline, intrinsic motivation and social and family support. We all want to live healthier lives and if it's within our power and our freewill, we do right? Here's a #BigIdea2016 for you, just eat better!

Top Healthy Food trends of 2015

1.Turmeric. 

Be on the lookout for spices and the use of herbs in interesting ways...

2. No Sugar diets

Are your serious about reducing your chances of heart disease, cancer and diabetes? Ever wonder why so many Caucasians (white) folk seem to appear to suffer from premature aging? It's because we're sugar addicts, dependent upon sugar highs. Can you kick the sweet addiction?

The World Health Organization advised lower daily sugar intake in 2015, and we saw a big shift towards a no-sugar diet.

3. Bone Broth?

What the heck is that?

"There is this chatter about bone broth. It's been super popular in the Paleo world for years, but it's now gaining popularity as it's being sold at coffee shops and the like...

4. Avoid Red Meat, the new Bad Guy

Studies are citing that eating red meat can lead to increased risks. Fish, poultry, eggs, legumes, nuts and lower fat dairy have taken meat's place in terms of nutrition.

The saturated fat, cholesterol and high environmental needs are also a reason many are avoiding or lessening their intake of red meat.

5. Cauliflower (white Broccali as my Asian Friends call it) 

Cancer-fighting properties, cauliflower is the superfood for 2015.

Woo-hoo! 

6. Coconut Oil 

The latest studies indicate that more than 50 per cent of the saturated fat in coconut oil is from lauric acid which does raise your bad cholesterol (LDL), but it boosts your good cholesterol (HDL) even more, which reduces your risk of heart disease.

Coconut consumption feels good! I have to admit. 

7. What's in your Gut?

With a huge focus in 2015 on improving gut health and optimizing digestion, we began to stock up our kitchens with gut-friendly food, probiotic-rich foods such as kefir, sauerkraut, and the most popular gut-friendly food of the year, bone broth.

What's your Gut health FQ? (Food quotient) Ever consume chicken stock, gelatin, and fermented vegetables?

8. Don't mind the Gas: Plant-based diets

As part of the new trend for an unprocessed, back-to-basics approach to nutrition, which switched heavy meat dishes for a simpler and easier to digest diet of organic green veggies and protein from plant-based sources such as nuts, seeds,

Go simple, go green, buy more vegetables. Learn more vegetarian dishes. Cook at home. 

9. Allow yourself to be Energized 

 As we aimed to eat a more plant-diet based and replace some of the sugar-heavy fruit in our diet with alkalizing green veggies, the green juice was the health accessory of the year.

Make 'em, mix 'em, juice 'em - Green juice! 

Give your Instagram some color! Gimme some of that when I visit you. 

10. Live better with Beets - Just BEET It!

Consumption of beets and beet concentrate holds promise as a treatment for oxidative stress and inflammation. Its constituents possess potent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and chemopreventive activity

Learn to love what's actually good for you. Challenge your preconceptions of what good food really means! I'm no expert, but I have some food for thought for my New Year's resolutions.