Health and Wellness

Breakfast is the first and probably most important meal of the day. On hot summer days we are all hungry for easy, delicious and refreshing recipes to prepare in the morning. As you already know, here at Waku we prioritize a healthy lifestyle and love to constantly find and share easy-to-prepare recipes that are also tasty and especially healthy. In this blog, we have gathered our top selection of 10 breakfast recipes for you to try and enjoy this summer, take a look!

Are you ready to take a break from work or simply take a few days off to relax and focus on yourself and your own well-being? Self-care doesn’t have to mean extravagant vacations, far away holidays or days at the spa. There are plenty of simple and affordable opportunities to focus on physical and mental wellness without even leaving your house! Waku wants you to experience a fun, interesting and cool summer, but overall, we want you to be able to find inner peace, relaxation and feel replenished at all times. Here are 8 serotonin-boosting activities you can enjoy this summer, take a look!

Since the pandemic, we have learned that we can pretty much do absolutely everything and anything from the comfort of our homes. From working or going to class to even learn how to dye our own hair, we have navigated all activities and adapted them so that they can be performed indoors. One of the most important and useful tasks we took over, was working out from the comfort of our room, living room or even backyard. Even though it may seem obvious and easy like “just grab a yoga mattress and follow a routine on YouTube”, we have found (from experience) that it takes more than just the drive to do it.

We have prepared a series of tips so that you can workout from home and do it efficiently, comfortably and most importantly… have fun! This is the Waku Guide to Perfect your At-Home Workout. Take a look!

Our hair is part of our letter of presentation. We all want to keep it thick, healthy and shiny. However, with all the weather changes that we are constantly exposed to, it is hard to maintain a consistency in our hair care. Even though there are a lot of hair mask options in drugstores and hairdressers, sometimes it is very hard to know all of their components and how each of them may or may not affect our hair structure either positively or negatively. 

Because in Waku we believe that natural is always better, on this occasion we have gathered our top 5 selection of homemade natural hair masks that you can make for your hair to look and feel better. Homemade hair masks are great for soothing and repairing cuticles damaged from coloring, hot tools, salt water, and even chlorine. Take a look at this exclusive selection of hair masks that actually work!

We are constantly surrounded by overwhelming content on advertising, mainstream media and social media that make us question our self-worth and re consider our value. Somehow, it seems like there is this conspiracy to keep us changing in order to “improve” and fit into a social standard expected from ourselves. We never seem to be thin enough, fit enough, pretty enough or simply just good enough compared to everyone else.

And even though we know this to be a direct reflection of our insecurities, brought to life by these photoshopped images and false life advertising, it is very hard to continuously love ourselves and maintain a good relationship with our body, its weight and the food it consumes. 

In Waku, we care for you and your self-esteem, we believe that the relationship we keep with food directly affects the one we have with our bodies, our overall health and therefore ourselves. That is why, we have prepared this blog so that you can seek that beautiful and lovely re encounter with the true love of your life: yourself.

Are you under the impression that vegetarian or vegan diets are harder to stick to than carnivore ones? Well, we are here to prove that statement wrong! Switching to a plant-based diet, even if its not everyday, can and will be difficult to get used to, specially if you often eat meat, dairy and other animal products on a daily basis.

Whenever you're trying to make something new you've never tried before, whether it's a new world cuisine, a new baking challenge or yes, cooking vegan, all you need to realize is there's a learning process that has to take place (Brownble, 2018).

To help you, we are some Waku Tips so that you can prepare your favorite Plant-Based dishes in a faster and easier way so that you can stick to your meatless goals: