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Give Fat a Chance

by Wilma Kirsten

The author describes the fear of fats created by fitness

Glutathione - Super Hero of the Cell

by Penny Crowther

American physician and chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine, Dr Mark Hyman says “If you haven’t heard of glutathione yet, you will. In terms of staying healthy, it’s on...

Gout

by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black

Gout is often associated with the high life – rich food and alcohol – but, says the author, we should also be considering the genetic link. The condition is marked by pain and infl...

Hair Mineral Analysis

by Lawrence Wilson, MD

Minerals are the "stepchildren of nutrition", often ignored for more glamorous nutrients, though they are precious and vital for our well-being. Minerals play many roles in the h...

Healthy Food for Children

by Penny Crowther

Regular columnist Penny Crowther examines the results of a Mori poll (November 2002) that found that 200,000 children in England and Wales had eaten no fruit or vegetable in the pa...

Hidden Treasures in Apples Past Their Prime Part I

by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black

Those who find this article relevant might be subject to the hopelessness and resignations of old age, likened to the aging wrinkled apple.  Many, aware that they cannot put the clo...

Hidden Treasures in Apples Past Their Prime Part II

by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black

Owing to the broad scope of this subject, I have focussed more on community living but the principles of awakening the treasures within, as yet unvalued in the hurley burley life of...

Homocysteine - Your Most Vital Statistic

by Patrick Holford and Dr James Braly

Forget your blood pressure, your cholesterol, even your weight. There is one statistic that can determine better than any other, whether you will live long and healthy, or die youn...

How Can We Better Support Our Brain Health?

by Roddy MacDonald

One of the troubling concerns of modern living is the fact that there appears to be a steady gentle decline in IQ levels since the 1970s. It would seem that the growth in the use of...

How to Increase Your Energy Naturally

by Patrick Holford and Dr Hyla Cass

Shocking survey results have revealed that three-quarters of the city-dwelling population in the UK are suffering from low energy and waking up tired as a result of a high intake o...

How to Reverse Hair Loss

by Vera Peiffer

The author began going bald at the age of 14 and then lost all her body hair as well. It was not until 30 years later, when she was training to be a kinesiologist that she found th...

Implications of Molecules in Emotion

by June Butlin

In nearly three decades of working in the area of wellness I have never found one health discipline that has all the answers for healing. The reason is that there are so many ind...

Iodine - The Forgotten Mineral

by Penny Crowther

The article lists symptoms of thyroid deficiency, which range from depression to chronic sinus infections. Iodine deficiency is now recognised by the World Health Organisation as ...

Iodine: The Forgotten Nutrient

by Marek Doyle

The article continues with full explanations and references to relevant research to describe the benefits of iodine, from its help in athletic performance, and help to maintain diet...

Juices V Smoothies

by Penny Crowther

Juicing and blending are very fashionable at the moment and I often get asked about the difference between juices and smoothies.

Links between Thyroid and Fatigue

by Victoria Tyler

For many people one noticeable sign that thyroid is not functioning properly is extreme fatigue. You may feel like it is extremely hard to wake up in the morning and that it is incr...

Macrobiotics for Healthy Living and Delicious Eating

by Anna Freedman

I would like to take the mystery out of macrobiotics and demonstrate that this ancient approach to food and well-being is of paramount significance to us all right now.

Macrobiotics for Optimal Balance

by Vivien Ryder

Macrobiotics, meaning great (or long) life, is a diet that seeks to achieve balance, harmony and healing and is based on the philosophy that everything is made up of two opposing f...

Mad Man Disease or the Nut Case

by Joel Carbonnel

When the BSE scandal was first disclosed, many were rightly shocked to hear that cows had been fed on a flesh diet; that, in other words, herbivores have been turned into carnivore...

Magnesium - The Magnificent Macro-Mineral

by Vivien Ryder

There is more to magnesium than you might think. We need relatively large amounts for our bodies to function at their optimum. And the simple fact is that most of us are deficient....