Tag: nutrition
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Why stress can be damaging for your brain health
It might seem obvious that stress is bad for your health; after all, who hasn’t had a tough day at work, and left feeling run down? But stress can also be bad for your brain, in terms of both mental and cognitive health. Chronic stress can result in changes to nerve structure, and even nerve…
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The fundamentals of a healthy life
Health is simple, and complex! The fundamentals of a healthy life are very simple, but we do like to complicate things. If the secret of great health and longevity were that simple how could “Health Care” become a multi billion pound industry? Only when “Health Care” is made complex and too difficult to understand for…
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The connection between breathing and your diet
What’s the Connection Between Your Breathing and Your Diet? Many people, including myself, would not have believed there was any significant connection between what we eat and the way we breathe. This would be understandable for the general public though not surely for someone like myself who has specialised in two important health promoting fields…
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Take care of your gut guests!
Are You Taking Care of Your Gut Guests? Did you know the less than ten percent of the cells in your body are really yours and that you are host to over three trillion microscopic carers who are responsible for your health and life 24 hours a day, 365 days a year? They are the…
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Cut down on sugar in 2018!
Sugar – the Not So Sweet Facts Did you know that fructose, one of the sugar compounds found in both whole foods like apples and processed foods such as cakes and soda drinks, is the only ‘food’ on the planet that fails to turn on the hormone leptin which tells us when we have had…
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Do you have a healthy lifestyle?
The Problem Adults overweight : 65%, obese: 31%, youth especially vulnerable During any given week 50% of us take at least 1 prescription drug; 80% take some kind of medication Adverse drug reactions and other medication errors are the number 3 cause of death (225,000 in the USA) Per capita US medical care costs are…
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Simply good health
KISS – keep it simple stupid! I often wondered why it is that most professions make life complicated? Is it because most professionals really believe their work is extraordinarily complex and it will be too much to expect others to understand their work? Is it because they have been convinced that with their long training…
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Healthy parents, healthier children!
Mother – the most significant occupation in the world! There can be little doubt that the role of mother has a profound effect on the health and well-being and intelligence of our children and that, in turn, this may ensure the health and well-being of the planet and mankind. This was the belief of Prof.…