Good morning!

Isn’t food great. Here are some articles about food for you to enjoy with your breakfast.

If you’re reading this on your way to work, the first article definitely provides a justification for getting a marmite and cheese toastie from Starbucks. If you are in America, it’s highly unlikely that you’ll get to try this amazing product, which in real life looks – rest assured – a lot more disgusting than pictured here and also tastes a lot better. Back to the justification – please enjoy the following long article about wellness, disordered eating, and a really interesting study on what our emotions around food do for us:

When participants were fed puréed meals (comprised of the kinds of foods they knew and enjoyed), they absorbed on average 70 percent less iron than they did when fed those same meals in their more appetizing, un-puréed, format. The pleasure that these women anticipated, and then relished, in their food actually helped them to be more nourished than when they received the same nutrients in a less palatable package. It was a startling result, and highlights what wellness so often overlooks: that when we separate pleasure from nutrition in our diets, we end up less nourished—physically and emotionally—than ever. Enjoying your food, it turns out, is good for you.

http://www.vice.com/read/ruby-tandoh-eat-clean-wellness

INTERLUDE: look at these beautiful shiny cakes by Olga Nevoska. There are more on her Instagram, I can’t stop looking at them:

http://www.contemporist.com/2016/05/12/when-does-food-cross-the-line-and-become-art/

That said, there are some things that are always going to put you right off your feed. That’s why I welcome so wholeheartedly this useful guide to what is always a difficult time:

It’s hard to know how to live your healthiest life when you’re experiencing a stressful change in your life, such as receiving a voicemail. When your day is derailed by a notification that says there’s a message that demands you just sit and listen to, like, the whole thing, you’ll be wondering what you ever did to deserve this, and how you can survive.

http://reductress.com/post/what-to-eat-and-what-to-avoid-when-you-realize-you-have-a-voicemail/

Happy Friday,

Alex.