In my opinion it is vital to take vitamin and mineral supplements because we do not get enough from our food due to the way it is grown and processed these days. However it is also important to eat good wholesome foods, nothing processed and especially fresh fruits and vegetables. The vitamins and minerals that … Read more
Low Stomach Acid Pharmaceutical companies persuade the public to buy antacids for what their advertising calls ‘an over-acid stomach’, but the symptoms of acid indigestion and heartburn are usually caused by incomplete digestion. This incomplete digestion, as is the case in many people with IBS, is caused by too little or no stomach acid, … Read more
Your digestive system is of major importance to your general health and wellbeing. It is in your stomach and intestines that most of the work of turning your food into fuel and nourishment takes place. It is a very complicated process involving enzymes, acids, good bacteria and peptides and if they are not in balance … Read more
According to Dr Robert O Young cucumbers are one of the best foods for your overall health and often referred to as a super food because they are alkalising. Our bodies are alkaline by design but our lifestyle and diet create a very acid body which encourage inflammation, bacteria, viruses and fungi. So adding cucumber … Read more
I am not sure that we will ever get a summer this year but it has got a little warmer and it’s a time when I hear alot of people say to me that they have their usual ‘summer cold’! I am always a little sceptical that it really is a cold, and I believe … Read more
I remember in my teens (a long time ago now!) when I was still living with my parents, and my Father used go to work on an egg every morning! He would have an egg, sometimes two, for breakfast, often with bacon and sometimes with a sausage. Then we learnt that eggs were killing us … Read more
For so long we have been told that salt is bad for us and especially for our heart, and that we should be cutting it out of our diet. More recently there has been a study linking salt with Multiple Sclerosis! Well this is completely absurd, salt, in moderation, is good for you, but it … Read more
Good foods help to fight disease, they are nature’s way of restoring, repairing and rejuvenating, of keeping you alive, and they heal without dangerous side effects. But we have denatured so many of our natural, healthy foods that they are no longer giving us the nutrients that are so important to us. Today food is … Read more
We have all been told, and we know, that eating fibre helps prevent all kinds of problems, but have you heard about IP-6 fibre? Recently research has shown that this dense fibre may be put to use in the fight against breast, prostate and colon cancer. For some time studies have shown that getting enough … Read more
‘All disease begins in the gut’, so says Hippocrates, and I for one, believe that he has a very good point! There is a huge amount of inflammation going on in our guts that can cause a plethora of different symptoms, some quite mild and inconvenient, but others quite dangerous and even life threatening. You … Read more