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It’s The Bodies Balancing Act Our bodies are constantly working to maintain balance. A fancy word for this action is called homeostasis. An example of homeostasis is our body temperature, our body fights to keep it at around 37°C. If our bodies get too hot (fever) for too long we die, and if we get … Read more
I recently visited my GP service and was advised it was time to have my “cholesterol” checked again. This was suggested because my last test showed that my bad and total cholesterol was raised, while at the same time my triglycerides were great and my good cholesterol was fine as well. So I requested that … Read more
I will never eat this. Decreasing the risk of heart attack and stroke is unlikely. It could even increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, contribute to heart valve stenosis, damage the microvascular, cause greater ischemic stroke damage and more. If your GP recommends you eat it ask him/her to read the article and the listed research and see what they have to say then.
Alzheimer’s and Dementia are diseases close to me. Mum is not the Mum I knew most of my life. My wife and I spent years caring for her Mum before she passed. Her long term GP wrote “cause of death – dementia” on the last document relating to her life. It’s difficult to care for those … Read more
During my tenure amongst the health foods scene, I was questioned about some of the most exotic, expensive and remote ‘superfoods’ from all across the globe. “How nutritious are they really?” Day in, day out. You know the products – they’ve been freeze dried and packed away into little tins for shelving at stores across … Read more
Watch This It’s Absolutely Hilarious Finished laughing. Well, most of this video clip is deadly accurate and clearly demonstrates how bad and or manipulated science can impact upon whole populations. But not everything in this funny clip is absolutely true. Age related Chronic Disease is not dependent solely on genetics. Numerous ‘experts’ state that genetics … Read more
In response to a recent post Mya asked whether coconut oil was healthy to cook with. This is a good question as over recent years many have come to believe that it provides health benefits. While on the other hand traditional medical advice has been that it is bad for us because true coconut oil … Read more
Health authorities and many GP’s still believe eating saturated fat makes us fat and contributes to heart attacks and strokes; why? Because bad science promoted a myth, that was repeated over and over again until it became fact. Even to the extent that now whole populations believe that eating fat makes us fat and increases … Read more
Mums, dads, parents of any kind, read on! Is your mealtime affected by that hard-to-deal-with phenomenon The Picky Eater? No fun, right? Debates, bribes, promises, anger…none of it works; in fact it makes things worse. You dread dinner time. So what to do? First of all, take a deep breath. You’re not alone. How it … Read more
The underlying question seems to be this; is slowing down one’s metabolism beneficial or not? Everyone has their own personal basal metabolic rate. This is the amount of energy required by our body when completely at rest and doing nothing. The lower the basal metabolic rate the less we have to eat to provide our … Read more
Many years ago I slipped down the deep and dark abyss of depression. I had moved to a new city, had no job, next to no life experience and times got really tough. I came to the city a size sixteen, and within six months I was a frail size six who had lost every … Read more
At the very root of our evolutionary tree there exist an immense variety of simple organisms. The phylum cnidaria alone contains over 10, 000 species, mostly anemones, corals and jellyfish. Recently a particular species of jellyfish has received a fair amount of attention due to some new and exciting observations. Swimming amongst the swarm of … Read more