Tag: nutrition
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Eating mindfully
A few weeks ago I was giving a group presentation on the 5:2 Fasting diet at my Naturopathic Nutrition course. I found it interesting that even if a person is eating a heavily processed diet for five days of the week and cuts their consumption of food by two-thirds for two days of the week,…
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Going nuts for Tigernuts!
Why is Everyone Going Nuts for Tigernuts? The Wiki Report Quite simply put, Tigernuts are one of Nature’s superfoods. They’re packed full of fibre, nutrients and vitamins and are believed to contain ingredients that help prevent heart attacks and thrombosis, and improve blood circulation. Recent studies have shown they can help reduce the risk of…
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Improve your body’s circulation
Are you preparing for a sports ‘Challenge’ this year? If so then a high-quality L’arginine and magnesium supplement can really make a difference to your performance and recovery. L’arginine is an amino acid that is converted in the body to Nitric Oxide. When this amino acid is received in the right dosage and from a…
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Personal transformation – an inner shift
From a caterpillar into a butterfly! The New Year is a time when we set ourselves new goals and challenges, when we reflect on the past year and highlight areas of our lives that have changed. It’s a really good time to let go of old clutter in our living and work environments. Clearing wardrobes…
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Natural health – a new medical paradigm
HEALTH, HALE AND WHOLE – a new medical paradigm Medicine has witnessed over a hundred years of increasing fragmentation of the patient into smaller and smaller parts, from the study and treatment of the whole person to the reductionist study of the cellular condition of the diseased cells within the individual, and even to the…
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Greens are good for us!
‘Why we Really Should Eat Our Greens’ We all know we ‘should’ – we have all been told ‘greens are good for us’ yet do we really understand why it is so important to eat our greens? Yes ‘greens’ do provide us with certain essential minerals and vitamins though that is not the whole story.…
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Health without medicine
Health without medicine – the high road or low road of living Might it be possible to live a healthy active life to ninety without medical support? Why have we all become used to the idea that our health is dependent on medicine or surgical intervention? Is it really possible to go through our lives…
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Our modern diet could be our biggest killer!
It took fifty years to convince most people that smoking kills! Will it take fifty years to convince people that most diseases are due to our modern diet? Fifty years ago who would have believed that the socially pleasurable widespread habit of smoking could kill? Today, who would believe our modern dietary habits could be…