What foods should you be eating to keep you in the best of health? Or more correctly what pairs of foods? Yes combining the right types of foods can help or speed up the absorption of different vitamins and minerals into your system.

Turmeric and black pepper.Turmeric has wonderful anti inflammatory properties but some of us can find it hard to absorb, so it is helped along by consuming black pepper.

Cauliflower and beans is another good combination to help your body get all of the goodness out of the beans. Help to release the vitamin D in salmon  by serving it with a spoonful of creme fraiche. Milk and honey combine to make a beautifully sleep inducing nightcap. Green tea with lemon juice a combination that will boost the antioxidant content, and bananas and yoghurt to help unlock the calcium.

Have you been thinking about being a vegetarian? It would seem that research suggests vegetarians appear to live longer. Meat consumption is often analysed, and it now researchers have found that meat eaters don’t live as long as vegetarians, but this may well be due to other lifestyle and environmental factors combined. If you are choosing a vegetarian diet it probably means that you are thinking about your overall lifestyle and would also be a non-smoker, have low alcohol consumption and more keen to exercise. So maybe vegetarianism on it’s own isn’t the key factor but more of an overarching desire to stay healthy.