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by Jerome Burne, as featured in ‘Food Matters’ What’s the best way of telling if you are at a raised risk of heart disease? Most people would probably say their cholesterol level, because too much can block your arteries. That’s why the NHS spends more than £1/2 billion a year on statins to treat Continue reading Here’s How You Can REALLY Avoid Heart Disease – Without Drugs Sleep is essential for our health and wellbeing. It allows our body to rejuvenate and restore itself. Sleep deprivation is one of the biggest causes of aging. Tiredness can also affect your mood and how you feel. Chronic tiredness can increase your risk of depression and anxiety. It can also affect the way that you Continue reading Stressed Out – Having Trouble Sleeping Almost all foods that we eat, after being digested, absorbed, and metabolised, release either an acid or an alkaline base (bicarbonate) into blood. Grains, fish, meat, poultry, shellfish, cheese, milk, and salt all produce acid. The mass consumption of these foods have caused our bodies to become overly acidic, which strips it of minerals. Over the Continue reading Acid-Alkaline – Tips For Balancing Your Diet By Professor Ian Brighthope Fat is probably the most misunderstood component of the human diet. The acquisition of scientific terminology as marketing jargon has certainly increased this misunderstanding. Most consumers are now aware of terms such as omega-3 and omega-6, and essential fatty acids, and know that there are such things as good fats and bad Continue reading Fat or Fiction By the Institute for Responsible Technology , Your Consumer Safety Partner – May 20, 2009 This week, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks.” They Continue reading The Truth Is Out on Genetically Modified Foods – And It’s Not Pretty Over a period of months or years, our food is shaped by the sun, wind and precipitation. Then as soon as we eat a meal, our intestines go about the arduous task of breaking it down so everything in it can be absorbed by our bodies. They sort out which components are allowed to stay Continue reading Sauerkraut And The Importance Of Good Bacteria We’ve all seen a colony of ants. All those little workers rushing around doing their jobs. It seems so random, but they are each doing something very specific that needs to be done for the good of the whole colony. That’s what I imagine enzymes to be like. Enzymes are really proteins – Continue reading What are Enzymes? The popular herbal extract St. John’s wort is more effective at treating the symptoms of depression than any antidepressant drug, and has fewer side effects, researchers from the Centre for Complementary Medicine in Munich have concluded. “Overall, the St John’s Wort extracts tested in the trials were superior to placebo, similarly effective as standard anti-depressants, Continue reading St John’s Wort Again Proven Better than Antidepressant Drugs |
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