SYL. Strutt Your Life Videos

REDUCING FOOD WASTE IN BBQ SEASON Food waste contributes 10-15% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and BBQ season (and Christmas) is where we see a lot of our food waste 😬 What can you do? 1. Buy less 2. Keep all leftovers in fridge/freezer and eat later 3. Give food to neighbours rather than putting it in the bjn 3. Compost waste rather than put it in bin for landfill Food ending up in landfill releases 4x more greenhouse gases then composting so try to avoid this at all costs. Chop your veg peelings or leftover salad and put it in your plants, if you don't want the nutrients, give it to them 😂 Enjoy your BBQs even more without wasted money or wasted food, happy days 😎 #Food #BBQ #FoodWaste #Planet #Sustainability #Sustainable #Nutrition #WhatNutritrionistsSay #Summer #ListenToFrey

5 Ways to Eat More Sustainably 🌍 Our diets contribute between 25-33% of greenhouse gas emissions, so making changes can make a huge impact! Make your diet more sustainable by: 👎 Eat less Red Meat (aim for once a week or less) 👎 Eat less Farmed Prawns (other seafood is fine) 👍 Eat more pulses (chickpeas, beans, lentils) 👍 Eat Fruit and Vegetable Skins (potato, carrot, apple) 👍 Eat more variety (aim for 30 plant based foods a week) Shout if any questions! Big love ❤️ #Sustainable #Climate #Health #Healthy #Nutrition #Nutritionist #WhatNutritrionistsSay #Plant #Diverse #Change #Planet

Given that today is the celebration of love, I wanted to think how that comes into play when we're thinking about ourselves and any chances we want to make. Now as I've said already, I'm all about the anti-diet but that does not mean that I'm antichange. You can be antidiet and prochange. It's all about where that will for change comes from. When you make changes based in self-hate or punishment, it's likely that they're a. gonna be mad unhealthy, and b, you're not going to be able to maintain them for very long. When you make changes from a place of compassion and self-love or care, they're more likely to be actually good for you and to last. I know it's hard to love yourself all the time, but you can always try to show love towards yourself, to have compassion, and to have your best interest at heart. So when thinking about any changes you want to make, think about where that drives is coming from, and see how to make that change good for you. Have a very loving day. Share love with your friends, your family, but most importantly, for yourself ❤️

Reminiscing on my Extra Life 💁🏼‍♀️

✨️Should I be "offsetting" my Carbon Emissions? ✨️ Okay so first off, what the f are carbon offsets? Pretty much everything we do emits carbon or other gases. So what you can do, is to pay to "offset" [balance] these emissions. This money will then be used to maintain and expand green spaces which absorb co2. Say you go on a flight from London to say San Francisco, that will emit around 3.4 tonnes of CO2 and you pay £50 in offsets to balance it out. Yes maintaining green spaces is great. But A. these gases and resources are different and can't really be balanced. B. The offsetting business encourages western companies to buy up portions of forests which potentially stop locals from being able to use them. C. Carbon measurement is still a bit sketchy, and the balance sheets may not be accurate. all that being said, it is also likely better doing something than nothing. If paying for your offsets is the only thing you can do, then do it, but with caution. But if you can get involved in other more local absorption projects, that's great, and we'll as reducing your carbon emitting activities where possible. None of us are perfect, but every little helps ✌🏻 #Carbon #CarbonFootprint #Emissions #Offsets #Sustainable #Sustainability #Environment #DoWhatYouCan #NoOneIsPerfect #Motivation #Inspiration

Hi everyone and happy new year! So like some of you, I'm on day 9 or 10 of veganuary. I must say, I'm not loving it, but I do think its a really interesting and important challenge, even to just understand the complexity of our food system. But it has made me think a lot of about protein, I normally don't pay a lot of attention to protein as I think it's incredibly overhyped. But as a vegan, it is more important and so thought I'd explain why. Proteins are made of amino acids. Now there are 20 amino acids, 11 we can make ourselves, and 9 we can't. Now animal proteins generally contain all of these nine "essential" amino acids. Thus they're complete Proteins. For plant foods, you've got two options for these complete proteins, soya or quinoa. But given that we tend to eat foods as meals rather than on their own, you just need to PAIR YOUR PROTEINS. Generally, grains have some of the essential amino acids, and beans or pulses have the other. Often this is the basis of many cuisines, e.g. rice and peas, hummus and pitta, even beans on toast. I know a lot of people worry about their protein intakes in general, but given the availability of our food, it's quite hard to not get enough and we often eat too much of it. So deep breath, just balance your meals with grains AND legumes and you won't lose your gainz. You'll also be eating more fibre so bonus points for that 💁🏼‍♀️

** TRIGGER WARNING FOR ED/DE ** It's the most wonderful time of the year? Even as a straight sized person, I've had some really hurtful comments about my body from those I thought cared for me. Which makes eating around them sometimes really fcking hard. Haters gonna hate, regardless of how you look. We deserve this delicious food. They're wrong and we're fcking great. Don't let their comments stop you from enjoying your life, eating your food, or taking your photos. Don't put up with the crumbs when you deserve the whole damn cake. Happy holidays everyone ❤️ P.s. women also say horrible things as I'm well aware, these however are the comments which stood out to me, who were all by men.

So this week I had to defend my dissertation so I thought it would be worth explaining to you all what it was about, I'm gonna try in 90 seconds. So many of you are aware for the need to reduce high meat production and consumption. But when you look at the data, men eat significantly more meat than women and are more likely to be against vegetarian diets and dishes. Therefore we need to focus on men reducing their consumption. But meat is strongly linked with masculinity and sexuality and so reducing meat can mean losing a sense of identity. It is therefore important to find reasons which could be more important than identity. Studies show that high meat consumption is significantly associated with increased risk of erectile dysfunction. Given the importance of sexual function both in society and personally, I investigated whether this reason would motivate a reduction in meat consumption. And my study showed that YES, it did. Though the reason was not significant for women, it was for men. Though this change was small, changing from "strongly unlikely" to reduce meat, to "unlikely", it was significant suggesting that it could be a viable motivator to reduce meat consumption. It's important to mention that this was not about making men, or anyone else vegetarian. It is just about raising awareness on the reasons as to why high meat consumption can be harmful and how to help reduce consumption to healthier levels. Hope you find it as interesting as I did! Also if you're interested in how high meat consumption could lead to erectile dysfunction then let me know and I'll do a short video on it :)

Hi Everyone! Sorry for the hiatus, but this is your reminder about your vitamin D! It's really important for immunity, muscles, and our bones. We normally get it through sunlight but if you're in Northern Europe right now you won't be getting a lot of sun. Additionally if you cover your skin, don't spend much time outside, or have darker skin, it's more difficult to get vitamin D from the sun. Some people take supplements instead but just be aware of the dosage, the UK government recommends 10ug per say or 400 IUs, but some supplements are much higher than this. We do store it so just be careful with your doses if not advised from a health care professional. If you have any questions then give me a shout! 😘

Message for today, DON'T WASTE YOUR RICE! Rice contributes to about 10% of agricultural emissions, I'm not saying not to buy/eat it, but please please don't waste it. Chuck it in the fridge/freezer and make egg fried rice the next day 🙋🏼‍♀️

ALL ABOUT THE SNACKS 🥨 Snacks are great, delicious, and keep us going through the day. But snacking is a dangerous game, you gotta keep the ratio right. Too many snacks, less meals. No snacks, or too few snacks, can lead to massive meal portions making you feel sick. So when this ratio gets out of wack, it happens for one of two reasons. 1. We're lazy or tired or too busy to make a full meal so we just snack instead. But tbh, by the time you get up, figure out what snack you want, make it, eat it, and start thing about the second, third, fourth, fifth snack. You may as well have made yourself a meal, hopefully a balanced one, which allows you to actually carry on with your day. 2. Sometimes diet culture can make us feel that skipping meals is a good thing so that we'll get slimmer. But SHOCKINGLY, skipping meals makes us hungry. So what do we do? We fill up snacks, which aren't a meal, to make us think that we're skipping a meal and being "healthy". Now, I don't need to tell you that skipping meals is probably not a good strategy for achieving health. Don't lie to yourself, calories from snacks don't get sucked into some weird vortex where they don't count. Unless you're having super balanced snacks, you're likely depriving yourself of key nutrients when you only eat snacks. Keep snacking, but think about whether you want that snack, or whether a meal would be better. Big love ❤️

WHAT IS CARBON LABELLING? ✨️ Essentially a measure of the amount of Carbon dioxide (and its equivalents such as methane or nitrous oxide) released through the creation of this product or service. ✨️ For a food product, that will be: The emissions from growing the food The emissions from manufacturing and packaging The emissions from transporting the food from the farm, to the manufacturing plant, to the supermarket/wholesaler. ✨️ Most countries have made pledges to reduce their emissions, as per the Paris Climate agreement in 2015. ✨️ Now what is DOESN'T include, is water usage, water pollution, or contribution to biodiversity loss. Which are all still massive contributors to our environment. ✨️ That being said, we have to start somewhere and I think these are really useful for consumers to learn about the impact of their purchases on our environment. Hope this helps, as always, shout if you have any questions!

The final tour, the Bali Food Tour 😍🇮🇩

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BANGKOK FOOD TOUR 😍

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FOOD TOUR OF HO CHI MINH CITY 😍

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How is high meat production bad for the environment?