20 Gift ideas to nourish the mind, body and spirit:
- Order a gourmet fruit box or arrange for a fruit-of-the-month basket to arrive monthly for the next 12 months! Create your own organic food basket.
- Personally bake a healthy fruity Christmas cake.
- Give a gym membership.
- Buy an introductory session with a personal trainer or a pack of sessions.
- Purchase a pedometer to track steps and motivate increased physical activity.
- Get a heart-rate monitor for those more serious “athletes.”
- Hire a treadmill for a defined period or buy one if you think it will be used in the longer term. This is particularly useful for walking in poor weather conditions.
- Select some sports and game equipment—for example, a punching bag, soccer ball or tennis racquet.
- Pick up a Pilates or aerobics DVD.
- Pamper someone with skincare products.
- Find some colourful and fragrant candles.
- Reward someone with a relaxing music CD.
- Spoil with a gift certificate for a massage ranging from Swedish, aromatherapy or Thai style.
- Prepay for a consultation with a dietitian for a nutrition makeover in the new year.
- Buy a book on health, such as The China Study, The Okinawa Program or The Breakfast Book.
- Choose a colourful cookbook that shows how to use more whole foods, or contact Sanitarium for several inexpensive titles, which you could bundle.
- Surprise someone with a subscription to an inspiring magazine that includes healthy recipe options.
- Rent a purified water cooler for a year.
- Gift wrap “nutrition and exercise diary” software for tracking kilojoules in/kilojoules out—available for PCs, Macs and PDAs.
