Healthy new ways to fill the gap

EDITORIAL FOR POTENTIAL HEALTH MAGAZINE

We are controlled by one of the strongest muscles in our body-the tongue. The muscular organ, vital for activating our minds, body and soul, ensures our lives are running smoothly, 24 hours a day. From the moment the soft rumble of hunger strikes our abdominal drum, beating a rhythmic growl, our heads squirm with various temptations, scanning the room for this essential in our lives- food.

Questions burst with delight as our minds ponder about all the numerous possibilities of where to go and what to sink our teeth into. As students brush-off parental supervision and absorb there personal independence and freedom, new behaviours and lifestyle patterns tend to offer new opportunities for unwanted social pressures. In today’s society, the need for unhealthy eating habits is still an ongoing problem. Apart from obsessive alcohol, tobacco use and physical inactivity, unhealthy dietary practices are the most widely fatal killers, when it comes to your physical well-being.

Approximately 7000 Rhodes University students take a bite out of the local cuisine-Grahamstown every single day. The various flavours that sprinkle across their taste buds are just a mouthful of locations, crumbed around the small loafed town. But, just like any type of food, flavours and temptations always reach their expiry date.

Eating the same thing day-in and day-out can get extremely tedious, leading us to venture out of the dining hall to face vending machines and franchises, readily available at any hour of the day. With these at our fingertips it provides a cheap getaway to grab the closest take-out.

Packed with unhealthy excessive preservatives, fats and sugars, these nibbles are just a heart-disease waiting to happen. Nutritionist and author, Dr. Ann Wigmore, claimed that: “the food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”

With so little knowledge about all the hidden flavours throughout our community in Grahamstown, we stirred-up a map to wet the reader's appetite. Your taste buds can now experience brand-new flavours and healthy options. We offer a unique opportunity to communicate with an audience looking to buy and try tastes and textures of quality foods, as part of a vibrant, healthy and active lifestyle.

From changes in the dining hall, food on the shelves to the outskirts of towns’ best reviewed; we invite you to explore the mouth-watering treasures of Grahamstowns finest.