Vitamin D and cancer
Vitamin D is an essential micronutrient and an endocrine messenger that regulates cellular growth and differentiation.
Continue Reading →Pre-emptive strike is the key!
No matter how healthy and fit we are, there is always room for improvement. Doing a little forward planning health wise, can reap large rewards for our future health.
Continue Reading →Flexible fare!
As well as making 2015 a “can do” year, let’s also make it “the year of dietary expansion”!
Let’s commit to embracing and expanding our dietary repertoire and step out of our alimentary comfort zone.
Zinc – mineral of the month!
Not many of you would have escaped the zinc taste tally! You may recall the procedure, hold 10 ml of zinc sulphate in your mouth for 10 seconds then swallow and describe the taste.
Continue Reading →Organic opportunity
The average non-organic piece of fruit or vegetable can contain over 20 pesticides. Add to these pesticides, toxic chemicals, preservatives, additives, hormones and antibiotics, and we
have a rather frightful mess.
More on migraines
Over the past 12 months or so, I have discussed in a number of my newsletters the use of magnesium, Coenzyme Q10 and vitamin B2 for the treatment of headache and migraine.
Continue Reading →Calcium and heart health
Authors of a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition have challenged prior research that claimed calcium supplementation may have “the unintended negative consequence of increasing cardiovascular disease risk”.
Continue Reading →Antioxidants and bones
A prospective analysis of 1000 post-menopausal women has revealed that antioxidant supplementation could be as critical to bone health as calcium and vitamin D.
Continue Reading →To do list!
Let’s not start the New Year with a “wish list”.
Let’s begin instead with an “action plan”… a “to do list”!
Wishing is simply not enough. No more “I wish I could lose weight”, “I wish I had more energy”, “I wish I could stop eating chocolate”…that’s just dillydallying.
Retox mindfully
After completing your detox, try not to immediately reintroduce coffee, alcohol, processed foods, meat etc. Consider having less, permanently.
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