The Truth about the IMMUNE SYSTEM
This series on I-player is very relevant right now as we sit waiting for the vaccination to be rolled out, what else can we do to look after ourselves and help to be strong so we can fight infection.
Eating disorders in top-level sport
Awesome Panorama episode tonight with Colin Jackson. Uncovering elite athletes and their eating disorders to achieve the goals of winning come
The Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar
The Benefits of apple cider vinegar are many. But the main reason for taking a table spoon before every meal is to realign the pH level of the gut. ACV is alkali and as most of the common ailments are due to too much acidity this is an incredibly good way to neutralise this imbalance. …
“How are you going to get your horse fit?”
I was asked this question when I bought my horse and was planning on hunting it 3 months after settling him into his new home. “How are you going to get him fit?” ….. How would I get a human fit I thought. I would keep a training diary and write a regime, covering all the …
Sugar Tax in South Africa….Already came into the UK in March …
Awesome – finally a sugar tax …. and in South Africa – a country that produces sugar that is at risk for being accused of upsetting a national trade. Click here for more information Several interesting articles click here for more: Britain is not doing so well on Sugar intake, but we have already …
Tom Hanks talks about how his weight gain led to Type 2 diabetes
Thank goodness at last we have acknowledgement of the seriously bad effects of an unhealthy diet. This is a simple correlation – too much high energy food (fats and sugars) leads to extra weight being carried …. we all know this …. we gain weight because we have eaten “energy” that has not been expended and …
Common Colds and Flu
So the common cold has been dealt with in various ways – from just grunt up and get on with it. To take some vitamin C, or take cold and flu tablets or Paracetamol. But are we in fact prolonging the illness by taking many of these medications and would we do better to simply …
War on Waste & good healthy eating
Do you know how much food is wasted by our supermarkets? Imperfect – or are they – vegetables that are rejected by supermarkets because apparently the public won’t buy them. Is this true? Is this sense. The people who get hurt and put out of business are the growers and the waste is astronomical and …
Jess achieves her first 3km Open water Swim
Swimming Lake Llangorse. In her words – Jess’s story. “As for the swim, well it was really weedy and I just wasn’t used to that and at the beginning I was really frightened. This was one historic lake, not only is there a Crannog there, but the lake was famed in Welsh folk lore and has …
6 Foods that we ALWAYS knew behave like addictive drugs
6 Highly addictive foods….. So many of my patients struggle with cravings, weight issues, and late night snack binges. Knowing that certain chemicals in foods, called exorphins, can act as addictive drugs may help to develop strategies to improve health. You need to know a little bit about exorphins because the makers of processed food, …
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