nutrition
High blood pressure: what is it and how to control it
What is hypertension (high blood pressure)? Blood pressure is the force of blood against the walls of arteries – the vessels that bring oxygen-carrying blood to the heart. It rises and falls quite naturally all the time. Your blood pressure will be lower when you are <...read more
Histamine intolerance
2-5% of all adults suffer from Histamine Intolerance (HIT). This official estimate (source: T. Schleip, Germany) shows that HIT is now a vastly more serious health problem than all food allergies put together!Digestive problems (prolonged di...read more
How a veggie diet can protect your heart
Heart Pumping Of all the complex jobs our bodies have to perform it sounds such a simple task to ask of our hearts - just sit there and pump. Yes that really is it - the heart just sits around day in and day out pushing the blood around the body, thereby supplying individua...read more
How essential are trace elements in our diet?
Inorganic, organic, chelated, elemental, ionic, colloidal, essential, trace - all these claims! What do we really need? Credentials in nutrition apparently mean very little when it comes to minerals. Much of what is written about minerals is speculative, mar...read more
How to package "skinny"
I'll be the first to admit I not much for dieting as you probably guessed from reading last week "Beer Profits Drop Could it be the Packaging?". I do watch my weight, exercise daily and try to eat well balanced nutritious meals, But I'm still tempted though by prod...read more
How to treat alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's or Presenile Dementia is characterised by confusion, loss of memory, speech problems, hallucinosis, and the ability to perform and follow through with purposeful movements.Its most likely cause is thought to be free radical damage. Free radicals have been implica...read more
Hypnosis and food intolerance
In recent years the field of mind body medicine (known as psycho-neuro-immunology or PNI) has been gaining wider recognition. Clinicians are now realising that the Cartesian dualist viewpoint with regard to medicine and healing (that the mind and body are separate entities t...read more
Importance of nutrition in helping to ensure a heathy mind
Anxiety, stress and depression Anxiety, stress and depression can be caused by life events such as bereavement, relationship difficulties or problems at work or in school. In other cases they may occur and seem out of proportion to circumstances, and these probably have more of a ph...read more
Iron and iron defiency
Plant foods contain only non-haem iron, which is less available than haem iron from animal sources, additionally plant foods contain a variety of substances known to reduce iron availability. Anaemia is a common presentation of coeliac dis...read more
Iron in the vegetarian diet
Heme vs. non-heme iron Iron is an essential nutrient because it is a central part of hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in the blood. Iron deficiency anemia is a worldwide health problem that is especially common in young wom...read more
Is your child disruptive or aggressive?
They may have a deficiency of zinc or vitamin B. Children and adolescents with behavioural disorders and aggressive behaviour are frequently malnourished. Those with certain nutritional deficiencies, such as those for zinc, iron, B vitamins and protein exhi...read more
It all starts with good nutrition
We all want to enjoy good health don’t we? But some of the food we allow to enter our bodies is definitely not in our best interest. Too much stodgy or fatty foods, that fill us up, make us feel full but within a very short time we are hungry again. ...read more
Key nutrients
Protein What children primarily require is sufficient food energy i.e. calories rather than protein per se. With adequate calories an individual will be in positive nitrogen balance and will thrive on a diet in which protein is available from a mix of plant...read more
Key points for feeding vegan children
Infants need plenty of energy. Home-prepared cereals should be made as a thick porridge and not as a thin gruel. Add a little vegetable oil to the cooked grains to increase their calorie content, and improve palatability by making them less glutinous as they cool. ...read more
Kissing and peanuts can be deadly combo
People who are allergic to peanuts might be taking their life into their own hands if they kiss someone who has just eaten a peanut product, even if that person has brushed his or her teeth. So claims research that was presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and...read more
Look after your supplements and your supplements will look after you...
Product labels can tell you which nutrients and active ingredients are included, and the amount of nutrients per daily intake. The label also provides details of contraindications (or when the product should not be taken) and storage. It is important to take notice of these ...read more
Macrobiotics for children
For most parents mornings are a rushed affair. Preparing a healthy and tasty packed lunch that doesn't arrive at the end of the day squashed at the bottom of a book bag is a daunting task.With some careful planning, mornings can become a lot more relaxed and parents can go to work knowing th...read more
Macrobiotics in practice
I have seen many people change their way of living - their dietary practices - to what we call a macrobiotic practice. What strikes us as interesting is that most people are delighted by the sheer simplicity of what they find. We are living in a very complex, artificial, mod...read more
Make your own baby food
Parents have been advised to consider making their own baby food after the discovery of a toxin linked to cancer in jars of manufactured food sold all over the world.The alarm was raised yesterday after experts at the European Food Safety Authority confirmed...read more
Making lifestyle changes...
Both men and women can make some lifestyle changes that will increase your chances of conceiving: Diet A balanced diet will help ensure your body is healthy enough to conceive and nourish a developing baby. A healthy diet can also help to keep sperm productionread more
Making up for mother nature: folic acid
What if I told you that according to an authoritative government survey, there is an essential nutrient which is deficient in the diets of 8% to 23% of normal healthy Brits – but which can influence their risk of heart disease, some ty...read more
Menopause: the natural solutions
In Western society the menopause is regarded as a disease that needs to be treated with corrective drugs. The menopause however is not an illness but just a collection of symptoms that occur as a woman’s body adjusts to hormonal changes. Supporting the...read more
My achievable detox plan
An internal ‘spring clean’ does help towards optimal health by allowing your body to rest and find equilibrium – the best way to do this is by following my Detox Plan which is achievable and doesn’t mean you have to drastically change...read more
Natural ways to strenghten your child's immunity
Breastfeed Breastfed babies experience fewer infections than bottle fed babies. Breast milk is vital in building your baby's immunity and protecting against disease. It also provides a complete nutritional balance including essential fatty acids. It is very important to try...read more
Nephrotic syndrome: causes, signs and symptoms
General Information Nephrotic syndrome is a condition characterised by abnormally high levels of protein in the urine (proteinuria). This syndrome is a common clinical feature of a variety of diseases that affect the normal working of the glomeruli (singular = glomerulus). ...read more
