Lifestyle

As a psychotherapist mostly specializing in women with food and body image issues, I often get questions via e-mail and phone regarding how family and friends can help a loved one who is experiencing disordered eating. I have some very…
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Dr. Theresa Dale, PhD, CCN, NP, feels it is dishonest to market these sugar substitute chemicals as “safe for human consumption”. From fast food chains to the best restaurants, aspartame is right there next to salt and pepper, as if it…
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In my work as a woman-centred psychotherapist, I have found that the habit of dieting is at the root of all women’s dysfunctional relationships with eating.  The fact is that we live in a society that is obsessed with thinness and surveys…
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What’s your relationship with food like? Here, our contributor Esther Kane talks about her life as an orthorexic – someone who has an obsession with eating healthy food. Let’s start out with an example of when your obsession was at its…
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Do any of these symptoms strike a chord with you? Sinus congestion, runny nose, sinus headache, frequent head colds, tickly cough (often clearing your throat), frequent chest infections, asthma, wheezy cough, sinusitis, bad breath,…
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People who are allergic to gluten are referred to as coeliac and suffer from celiac disease. However, as I explained in earlier, an allergy is very different to intolerance. Someone who suffers from celiac disease will react very quickly to…
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As I was sent an email from my friend on cucumbers (as she has an allotment), I was thinking to myself, its the second time I have been sent an email recently on these wonderful veggies ... well actually, they really are fruits belonging to…
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You know how it is; you arrive home from work with very little energy after a long day, and swiftly turn to that trusty, quick and easy dinner recipe. Not tonight! Here at Natural Cures, we’re urging you to ditch those old faithful 5-minute…
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