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Clean Eating Challenge

I challenged some friends to join me in undertaking ‘Clean Eating July:’ a month of eating solely wholesome foods, focusing on vegetable-laden, antioxidant-packed and protein-rich meals, while avoiding gluten and dairy products, sugar (including dried fruit), caffeine and alcohol. We

Feed your genes: how our genes respond to the food we eat
8 May, 2017
What should I eat? ‘Have you ever wondered why some people can eat a high fat diet and have no problem with cholesterol, or why others can have an after-dinner espresso and not be kept awake ...
Glutathione: the unsung hero of antioxidants
7 December, 2016
Glutathione is considered by scientists to be one of most powerful antioxidants, yet remains relatively unknown, compared to other nutrients. Manufactured in every cell in the body, but produced in ...
Cholesterol: friend or foe?
31 August, 2016
Cholesterol plays a variety of essential roles in the body, yet receives a very bad press for contributing to heart disease, while cholesterol-lowering statin medications continue to be heavily ...
Shape-shifting Candida albicans: yeast, fungus, or both?
13 July, 2016
What is Candida albicans and what causes an overgrowth? Candida albicans is one of a variety of Candida species of yeasts which are found naturally in the human digestive and genitourinary tracts, ...
Hypothyroidism: life with the parking brake on
16 June, 2016
Hypothyroidism, otherwise known as ‘underactive thyroid’ is one of the most common endocrine diseases, second only to diabetes.1 Symptoms vary widely and include tiredness, weight gain, dry skin, ...