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If your health practitioner prescribed a medicine with 92 (or more) side-effects – some of them serious - you’d no doubt be wary of taking it. And we wouldn’t blame you. But thousands of people choose to drink soda containing aspartame – a…

The apple tree may have been dormant on January 6th, but I’m sure some of you celebrated the fruit it bears regardless on National Apple Tree Day at the weekend. A fruit bowl favourite, apples offer many benefits and can be combined easily…

We reported recently how the UK healthcare watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) had made a U-turn on Lucentis, the diabetes-related drug. After initially saying they could not recommend it because it…

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, most of the food produced for human consumption is grown using pesticides.

Native American Indian people have always said that food is our first medicine; it heals us, makes us grow and it gives us life. Food is our energy, a life force and a healing medicine.  

Get to bed by 10pm – physical repair largely occurs between 10pm and 2pm. getting to bed late simple impairs cellular recovery. Drink 3 litres of water per day – fat loss, toxin removal and just about every process within our body…

We all know how much better we feel after being outdoors.  Getting a good dose of daily fresh air is essential to our wellbeing.  It improves sleep, enables us to better deal with stress and generally just helps us feel happier and more…

Instead, you should be eating it! As I go through my social media feeds, I’ll come across some earnest young woman, wanting luscious locks, making some sort of avocado hair mask concoction. I want to tell her, “No, you should be eating…

Great skin starts at birth. Mothers want nothing more than to protect their children from any and all harm. Why not start with their skin?

I bet you'd be shocked if you found out that hand sanitizers can actually weaken your immune system!