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Nutritional Aspects of Perspectives and Perceptions (Part II of II)

by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black

The author continues to develop the theme of finding out who we truly are.  She encourages us to become aware of and examine (and, ultimately, release) the past events and decisio...

Nutritional Benefits of Whole Grain Wheat

by Lucette Skidmore

The author is a nutritionist, linguist and professional cook. She started experimenting with whole grain wheat about three years ago when she was helping a group of women to stor...

Nutritional Care Of Peptic Ulcer

by Dr Mohan Krishnarao Kale

This is a detailed medical account of what a peptic ulcer is, the physiological processes involved, factors which cause it and can cause further damage, and how basic nutritional n...

Nutritional help for Chronic Fatigue Sufferers

by Victoria Tyler

Patients who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are often so exhausted that they are unable to undertake half of their daily normal activities.

Nutritional Support for Children with Autism

by Kate Neil

Regular contributor, Kate Neil, looks at the link between autism in children and nutrition. Autism rates in Britain have risen dramatically over the last 20 years, and 1 in 500 chi...

Nutrium - Software for Nutritional Professionals

by Manuela Abreu

"I'm setting up my own nutrition business!" If you have ever considered this here's what you need to know. The first thing that comes to your mind is that you need to set up a websi...

One Indian's View of Diet – How Food Habits Can Make or Break a Person

by CSVR Murthy

The author begins with a declaration based on Indian lore: a fellow eating once a day is a Yogi, twice a day is a Bogi, three times a day is a Drohi. He then explains that a yogi l...

One Surprising Thing You can Do to Tackle Mid-Life Fat Around The Middle!

by Penny Crowther

Reducing fat around the stomach is a major health goal for many women in mid-life. “Middle age spread”, that unwelcome roll of fat around the middle is an unfortunate effect of chan...

Optimum Nutrition for Babies

by June Butlin

I believe that optimum nutrition is essential in maintaining optimum health. It is vital to our lives as our bodies have been completely built and maintained by the foods that we...

Our Obsession with Dairy

by Wilma Kirsten

In the Western world it is nigh on impossible to avoid dairy. It appears to be the basic ingredient in most beverages and food products from the obvious breakfast lattes to lunchtim...

Pain and Inflammation

by June Butlin

Although pain and inflammation are important life processes – pain warns that something is wrong, and inflammation is a protective mechanism that allows healing to take place – in ...

Perseverance and Endurance in Nutritional Therapy

by June Butlin

One of the fundamental principles of optimum nutrition is a time delay in the healing process. Nutrients in the form of foods, supplements and herbs do not produce an instant overn...

Personalized Nutrition Changing Lives?

by Klinio

New research into health trends has confirmed that intuitive and mindful eating can assist in the management of a number of chronic health conditions. The discovery, made by researc...

Personalized Nutrition Getting Easily Accessible and Simplified for Everyone

by Klinio

Research conducted by Kilo Health has confirmed that mindful eating can help manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. As a result, it's clear that a personalized, ...

Phytoestrogens Re-Examined

by Kate Neil

Phytoestrogens are plant compounds that are able to mimic the action of steroidal oestrogen in the body, the dominant form in the human diet being flavonoids, which can be divided ...

Preeclampsia - Nutritional Factors

by Cal (Gerard) Crilly

I wrote these thoughts on preeclampsia for a South African doctor; this information should be public knowledge.

Prevention or Cure: What's the Problem with Milk?

by David Taylor

The author looks at milk and why, like other white dietary products – salt, sugar, white flour, white rice, and white pasta – it should be excluded from our diet. He explains that ...

Real Food For Real Health and How ‘Stress’ Affects Both

by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black

Some people consider real food to be the best quality produce that can be bought from a supermarket, small food outlet / local farm, grown organically, grown in the garden or even ...

Salt - Its Many Therapeutic Wonders

by M Amir

Although salt has been “medically long prized as a stimulant, antiseptic and much else, salt has lost out to the pharmaceutical industry, I would suggest at our peril”. Dr Amir has...

Salt - Healthy Eating Friend or Foe?

by Jessica House

Salt is often considered the baddie when it comes to healthy eating - but is it really as simple as that? Is making sure there’s some salt in the diet actually beneficial? Is there ...