Positive Health Online

Cave Men Didn't Eat Cornflakes

by Diana Earnshaw

We are still genetically programmed for the hunter-gatherer diet. What was good for us thousands of years ago is still good for us now. Taste buds were the only guide to the foods ...

Curing Polio with Magnesium: The Tip of the Iceberg?

by Thomas E Levy

While magnesium remains greatly underutilized in the treatment of a wide range of medical conditions, it is gradually becoming a more common nonspecific positive ‘health tonic’ adde...

Diet Controversies

by Udo Erasmus

Let us take a short walk through different diets that traditionally sustained human populations on different parts of the globe. We will show the involvement of fat and oils in t...

Diet During Renal Failure and after Kidney Transplant

by Dr Mohan Krishnarao Kale

In patients with chronic kidney disease or/on dialysis, the purpose of this diet is to maintain a balance of electrolytes, minerals, and fluid in patients.

Dieting - A Recipe for Failure

by Peter Cohen

Dieting, like conventional medicine, works on the expectation of failure. Conventional medicine is designed to deal with ill health and it factors in a high drop out or death rate....

Eat Less, Naturally

by Gina Pickersgill

The author discusses how eating has served both the function of keeping us alive and healthy, and as a cultural way to share time together, including cultural rituals around food a...

Eating with the Heart in Mind

by Gina Pickersgill

What is it about food that makes us want to realize its nutritional benefits? Why are we so enthralled in finding out what it can do for our health and why is it used as a medium to...

EU Directives - Health Protection Double Speak

by Helen Fullerton

Helen Fullerton looks at three Directives that the EU is forcing through in the guise of consumer protection: the Food Supplements Directive, the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Produ...

Evolving Story of Vitamin D

by Michael Sellar

This article looks into the benefits and research history of Vitamin D which, the author says, isn't really a vitamin because it has to be metabolically activated before it can be ...

Fibre What is it, What does it do – How to Meet our Daily Requirements

by Natasha Cornelius

Fibre - hardly headline news you would think but lately it’s been in the spotlight more than usual. All this media focused attention grabbing has been the result of the publication...

Five Elements Nutrition

by Penny Crowther

As winter is the season for the water element, associated with the kidneys and the bladder, the author provides a wider concept of the kidney and our energy based on Chinese medi...

Folic Acid: A Matter of Common Sense?

by Linda Lazarides BA

Nutritional health expert Linda Lazarides questions why research into the deficiency of folic acid (a B Complex Vitamin), which causes devastating birth defects, is not resulting i...

Food and Nutrition for Optimum Health

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The food that we eat exerts an extraordinarily potent influence upon our health and well-being at many levels – molecular, physiological, psychological and spiritual.

Food for Male and Female Sexual Health

by Christine DeLozier

Most of us think of fulfilling sexual relationships as a psychological and emotional phenomenon. Within our bodies though, it’s when nerves fire strong, rapid impulses to and from t...

Food Intolerance and Chronic Illnesses

by John Graham and Mark Varey

Intolerance to food has been implicated in playing a role in a wide spectrum of chronic illnesses; however, much of the evidence gathered to date has been from anecdotal clinical c...

Food Supplements Risk Even Less than Lightning Strike

by Dr Gert Schuitemaker

A recent study explains that the risk of mortality from taking food supplements is far lower than other risks like smoking, pharmaceutical adverse drug reactions, cancer, and even d...

Food Vitality - The Almost Neglected Ingredient for Health

by Wendy Cook

Changes in our diet have meant that supplements are now required to provide certain nutrients. The author suggests that by relying upon supplements, we are bypassing the need to ...

Foods for Free

by Anita Priddy

This article focuses on foods grown in the wild. The author touches on their health value, where they can be found, how to pick them and also how to eat them.

Fueling Breakfast To Increase Memory Power

by BD Basu

The author explains at the end that his recommendations are based on having overcome serious health problems, and that the nutritional principles he sets out are derived from resea...

Georgia

by June Butlin

This case study illustrates how nutritional factors can affect not just physical well-being but also mental, emotional and behavioural patterns.