Taking responsibility for your own wellbeing
The Chief Medical Officer of England recently likened antibiotic resistance to international terrorism. It is a threat that should be taken seriously – if antibiotics fail to work with infections, are we going back to the dark ages? People have taken them so for-granted that they expect to receive tablets every time they have a [...]
The good news is that the hayfever season has been delayed by the long cold winter. Among the 12 million people who have hayfever in the UK, 95 per cent are affected by grass pollen, but many suffer from the tree pollens that are abundant from the spring. Silver birch is the most prevalent hay [...]
It helps the body to recover quickly after exercise, and contains no sugar or sweeteners, unlike most energy drinks. Coconut water is the latest trend among celebrities and therefore it’s unusual in that it is also ultra-cheap. It can also be a great help to people convalescing from illness or accidents. Coconut water is the [...]
Some 5 per cent of the UK population is already vegetarian and research from thefoodpeople predicts that in the next two years this will reach 10 per cent. What is becoming quite normal is for people to choose to have meat-free meals for one or two days a week. The two reasons given for this [...]
In their book The 10 Secrets of Healthy Ageing, Patrick Holford and Jerome Burne, claim that the five a day for many older people is not five portions of fruit and vegetables but of prescription drugs. They claim that 50 per cent of people over 65 are now getting five drugs a day (source: BBC, [...]
Ten million people every year reach for an antibiotics prescription, and despite repeated warnings by the Chief Medical Officer some doctors still hand them out for colds, flu and sore throats, all viruses for which they are usually ineffective. Consequently, antibiotic resistance is growing with superbugs rife in hospitals and some serious illnesses not responding [...]
Like fertiliser encourages plant growth prebiotics provide energy for probiotics and enable them to flourish in the large intestine. The surface area of the gut or digestive tract is equivalent to a tennis court, and it contains 70 per cent of the immune system’s cells and more than 200 different species of bacteria. Consequently the [...]
Vitamins and minerals are essential to life, but most people think that they get enough of them from their food. With the soil depleted of essential nutrients due to over-intensive farming, and with an environment that is completely polluted, it is unlikely that this is true. Also read: Vitamins and Minerals Chart. Chris Newbold, Head [...]
Extract from an article by Sebastian Pole, Ayurvedic and Chinese Herbalist at Pukka Herbs, http://www.pukkaherbs.co.ukOne of the main causes of disease in Ayurveda is crimes against wisdom (prajnaparadha). This means violating your inner sense of intuition as well as ignoring your past experience. Denying this wisdom results in acting inappropriately for who you are. This [...]
Research has now borne out what many nutritionists have been saying for some time – that lifestyle changes could prevent Alzheimer’s disease. There are 820,000 people in the UK with dementia, yet researchers from the University of California have found that a ‘couch potato’ lifestyle with little or no exercise is the biggest culprit. A [...]
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