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What is well-being?

Feel good in your body, feel in harmony with your desires.

 

Some people tell you, “I’m in great shape, that’s happiness! “And there you understand that there are 2 variables in the notion of well-being. If we look up the notion of “well-being” in a dictionary, we can read in Larousse: “pleasant state resulting from the satisfaction of the needs of the body and the calm of the mind”.

This means that to work for your well-being, that of your family, you must not dissociate the 2 concepts: body and mind. Indeed, it is possible to be happy with a sick body, or one can be in good physical health while being in a state of anxiety or even depression. In these two cases we will not speak of well-being. The conclusion is that in order to fully experience the state of well-being, both conditions depend on peace in body and mind.

Athma brings you, with spirulina, the possibility of working the good nutritional balance which helps you to make peace with your body, without masking the weaknesses it has. Spirulina only helps you to nourish your body with the essential elements for the regulation of the balance. This allows you to be in sufficient physical shape to work serenely on the flexibility of your body, with the practice of yoga for example. The time that you will devote to the maintenance of your body by awakening and muscle maintenance activities contributes to the spirulina consumption cure that you are following. The sedentary lifestyle of today’s lives is not ideal for keeping your body in its best shape. By regaining the dynamism necessary for the practice of gentle and regular physical activity, you will make peace with your body.

Calmness of the mind is to be found through other approaches than just nutritional. Among the first avenues that we can suggest to you is already knowing how to appreciate what you are going through and what you have. This is not blocking in a life course and devoid of ambition. It is knowing how to take stock of small daily satisfactions to focus on improvements. Forget annoyances, grudges, revenge, use it to harness your beautiful energy and build goals in perfect balance with your ambitions and your resources.

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Spirulina guacamole recipe

To enjoy spirulina powder pleasantly, we suggest you include it in a recipe for your family aperitifs or as an avocado-based starter: Spiru-guacamole.

You need a blender and here is the list of ingredients:

1 avocado
1 or 2 sprigs of basil
1 fresh lemon
1 small white onion
salt + spice
Athma spirulina powder

The steps of the recipe:

  • Prepare the avocado: cut it in half, remove its skin, then cut into small cubes.
  • Mixer to assemble and bind: put the pieces of avocado in the bowl of the mixer, add the lemon juice (quantity according to your taste).
  • Then you have to peel the onion, cut it in four and put it in the blender.
  • Add the fresh basil and 2 teaspoons of spirulina
  • Add your spices: salt (at least) and Indian spice of your choice.
  • Mix everything finely

To serve, we invite you either to spread the Spiru-guacamole on toast, or to use it in a small purée accompanying a plate of entry of vegetables.

You should thus have a dish for about 4 people and this will have mobilized you about 10 minutes.

Good tasting.

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Nutritional deficiencies and anemia

With its nutritional richness, spirulina is one of the few foods that can present itself as the most complete. Spirulina has the power to fight malnutrition and anemia.
The proteins, iron and vitamins it contains allow it to rebalance a so-called deficient diet. Its consumption promotes an increase in the average corpuscular hemoglobin concentration as well as the level of white blood cells in the body.

It is possible for you to rebalance the nutritional contributions by introducing a few doses of powdered spirulina into your recipes.

In the context of a food rebalancing cure, spirulina will fill the deficiencies, but be careful not to overdose. It is preferable to respect a progression in the cure. For example, we start the cure with a consumption of 1g the first days before using doses of 2g.

By the way, can you identify your anemia situation yourself? Here are some of the symptoms of anemia (variable depending on the individual, age, etc.):
– paleness, clearly visible on the inside of the eyelids, on the nails and lips;
– shortness of breath on exertion and then at rest;
– persistent fatigue;
– dizziness, vertigo (weakness when getting up from a chair, feeling dizzy);
– headache ;
– palpitations;
– difficulty concentrating, remembering, reading, lack of motivation, energy;
-…

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Spiru-Quinoa Patties

This recipe has the advantage of offering you protein pancakes that are suitable for a vegetarian and gluten-free diet (beware of sesame allergies).

To make 4 patties, you are going to need on your countertop to have:

– 1/2 white onion
– 60 g of quinoa flakes
– 2 tablespoons of whole blond sesame seeds (toasted without salt)
– 125 ml of milk (buffalo)
– 2 small eggs (or 1 large)
– 1 tsp of curry
– salt and pepper
– 2 tsp of spirulina

Preparation of the recipe :

  • Start by peeling and finely chopping the white onion.
  • In a salad bowl, pour the milk over the quinoa flakes, then add
    – the chopped onion,
    – eggs,
    – sesame seeds
    – the curry before salt and pepper.
  • Mix everything together with a wooden spoon and let stand for at least an hour in the refrigerator (middle shelf).

 

Make your pancakes:

  • Take the preparation and it is now that we can add the spirulina and mix everything to have a uniform appearance and color.
  • In a non-stick, hot and lightly oiled pan, pour four piles of dough that you will flatten as you go with a wooden spatula to give the shape to the 4 patties.
  • For 6 to 7 minutes over low heat, you must let the dough set in solidity and refine the shape.
  • The next step is to stop cooking, and gently turn the patties over, letting them finish cooking on the second side using the residual heat from the pan for a few minutes.

 

You will be able to feast as a duo. Indeed the quantities indicated made it possible to make 4 pancakes for 2 people.
Spiru-quinoa pancakes are best eaten hot.

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Physical activities at home

We talk about a sedentary life, a period of confinement, and the needs of the human body to maintain physical activity.

When one cannot access sports equipment, or move over great distances, one of the beneficial activities for the balance of the body, the practice of yoga is a preferred solution.
There are many sources online explaining or helping to practice yoga. So how do you organize a schedule of activities combining rhythmic walking, with flexibility exercises that you can do in your living room and daily yoga sessions? We can already start, for an adult, with a rhythm of 30 minutes of yoga every day. Then it is desirable to respect the minimum weekly time recommended by the WHO (World Health Organization).

Here is what the WHO recommends in terms of the recommended volume of physical activity according to age, so that it has a beneficial effect on health and well-being.

Infants under one year of age
• For those who are not yet mobile, this assumes at least 30 minutes in the prone position, in the form of ground play, spread over the day when the child is awake. All infants should be helped to be physically active several times a day.

Children under five
• Children aged 3 and 4 should have moderate to intense modulated activity for one hour per day.
• It is recommended that all young children should have physical activity for at least 180 minutes per day, regardless of type and intensity.

Children and adolescents aged 5 to 17
• Children and adolescents should have moderate to vigorous activity for one hour a day. This can include muscle and bone building activities at least three days a week. Having daily physical activity for more than 60 minutes brings health benefits to everyone.

Adults over 18
• In order to improve and maintain musculoskeletal health, activities to strengthen major muscle groups should be performed at least twice a week. All adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity or 75 minutes of strenuous activity during the week.
• For greater health benefits, adults should get up to 300 minutes of moderate physical activity, or 5 hours per week.
• In addition, seniors with mobility problems should be physically active at least three days a week to improve their balance and prevent falls.

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Kiwi Spirulina smoothie

In the sweet recipes that we offer you based on spirulina, here is the spiru-kiwi smoothie, to be made preferably at the height of the French kiwi season (harvest in September-October = excellent from November to March).

To make it, here is the list of ingredients to collect:

– 2 kiwis (green or yellow)
– 1 apple (we are in the kiwi and apple season phase)
– 1 avocado
– 1/2 lime
– 1 tsp of spirulina powder

Realization in 3 stages:

  • Peel the kiwis, apple and avocado
  • Place in the blender bowl, adding the lemon juice and the teaspoon of Athma spirulina. Add a little water (if you want a liquid smoothie).
  • Serve in a glass or mug (with a nice little message)

spiru-kiwi-smoothie

Depending on your tastes you can imagine variations by adding, for example, mint leaves and some spices.

The day can begin