All Posts by Jo. Formosa74

Gentle Kapha – How to Keep Your Battery Always Energised

Kapha are the most blessed of all the body types as you have a strong constitution and can carry a lot on your shoulders – you are the battery, that when in balance never runs out. If you’re not feeling full of power and stamina than you’re probably not eating the right foods and living […]

You’re a feisty, passionate pitta – here’s how to tend the fire and keep shining bright

As a pitta body type, you’ll tend to be the natural born leaders. You love order and structure and taking charge is easy for you. Out of balance you might feel frustrated, and struggle with incompetence, or have angry outbursts. Maybe your hair is prematurely greying, or thinning, or you’re having trouble sleeping and suffering […]

So you’re vata body type? What you need to know in order to live a healthy life

You may be a vata body type, which means you are a normally lean, skinny minnies, often with long, thin frames and narrow shoulders and hips. You may be frustrated because you might be suffer bloating, constipation or IBS and put on weight around your stomach – where you have never put on weight before. […]

Discover Your Dosha To Find Mind-Body Harmony

Ayurveda is based on the principle that there are three different body types, or dosha, and these are the energies that make up every individual. We all fall into one main category – vata, pitta or kapha – and this largely defines our nature, physical build, eating habits and even vulnerability to certain illnesses. When you […]

7 Hearty Detox Diet Soups

This month is Body Detox month at Back2Health. We’ve also had a lot of interest following Jo Formosa’s appearance on Today Extra where she discussed the virtues of soup to help the detox process. And let’s face it, even if you aren’t detoxing, a nice soup is welcome any time. So if you’re in the mood and would like to […]

Ayurvedic medicated water

If you could drink a simple, but effective detox tea that clears your body of fake fat, which is really toxins in your lymphatic system, and literally strips centimetres and kilos from your body, would you be interested? Ayurvedic medicated water, or CCF tea, made from coriander, cumin and fennel seeds has been used by Ayurvedic […]

Why You Need To Be Going To The Toilet Every Day

​Author and scientist Giulia Enders has become renowned for her charming way of talking about the gut, and also promoting the importance of gut health. The 27-year old, who wrote the New York Times best-seller Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ, talks in no uncertain terms about the need to be […]

5 Ways to Energise Your Morning – minus the coffee

It’s so easy to hit snooze on those cold, dark mornings when you can’t get out of bed, then trudge into the kitchen for a coffee, or two, before starting the day. Brits alone drink some 70 million cups of coffee everyday – Australians, Americans and Europeans all have a long-standing love-affair with the brew, but […]

Igniting Agni – your body’s digestive fire

The Ayurvedic concept of ‘agni’, or digestive fire, impacts your overall well-being – it’s responsible for the digestion, absorption, assimilation and transformation of food and sensations into energy. A balanced agni is key to living a healthy and fulfilling life. An unstable agni is the root of all disease. It’s really that simple. Agni is the […]

The Importance of Regular Detoxing

We live in a toxic world and are exposed to over 2 million substances that are known to be toxic to the human body and have 25,000 new toxins added to our environment every year – even with a healthy diet and just modest amounts of caffeine and alcohol, we are slammed with a cocktail […]