What Makes a Good Lunch?
Lunch is a good opportunity to up your plant-based food intake and get your fill of important nutrients. A varied lunch is good for the body and boosts mood, too.
The only steadfast rule on what to have for lunch is to make sure you include a mixture of nutrient groups in your meal. Your decision-making abilities are better before lunchtime than soon after waking, giving you more mental ability to weigh up a healthy meal choice. However, when you’re really hungry, the appetite control center in your brain’s hypothalamus can scupper your good intentions; a spider’s web of survival-based nerve pathways reaches into every corner of your being, putting your reward system on edge and firing up your ...
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