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3 Tips to a Healthier Mouth & a Healthier You
If cleanliness is next to Godliness, then oral hygiene isn’t far behind. If you want to know how healthy you really are, open your mouth and look in the mirror. Poor oral hygiene, periodontal disease, mouth ulcers, and tooth decay, have all been associated with chronic disease including: diabetes cancer and heart disease. Good oral…
Read MorePrevent Osteoporosis With Diet & Lifestyle Not Calcium Tablets
Recently we looked at the danger of taking calcium supplements, particularly without advice and monitoring by a Naturopath or other health care professional. One of the most common reasons given for calcium supplementation is the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis. While low dietary calcium intake is definitely a contributor to osteoporosis, an increase in calcium…
Read MoreThe Danger of Calcium Supplements
During our life style reviews we ask our clients for a list of pharmaceutical drugs and supplements they are taking. Invariably calcium supplementation is one that appears on most people’s lists. This is often present in multi vitamin and multi mineral formulas, pharmaceutical calcium supplements for osteoporosis, or is present in antacids. Calcium has become…
Read MoreStress Less This Year
The festive season is over and many of us now face the challenging prospect of returning to the stress of daily work life. New research by The Australia Institute shows that stress is becoming an ‘epidemic’ national health issue. Stress damages many of your body’s systems, including immune and inflammatory response. Is your health being…
Read MoreHow to Holiday, Enjoy It, and Not Blow Your Diet?
Have you been working hard all year to lose body fat or get into shape? There are few things as frustrating as returning from a relaxing holiday and finding you’ve acquired a few extra kilos along the way. Suddenly, those new jeans you bought during the post-Christmas sales don’t fit any more and stress levels…
Read MoreMen, Have You Heard of Andropause? Three Things You Can Do
fatigue and lack of energy, obesity and weight gain, depression, irritability, and mood, low libido and sexual dysfunction. Just like female menopause, andropause is caused by your bodies declining hormone production during ageing, most specifically androgens that include testosterone and DHEA. Accompanied with this is an increased production of sex hormone binding globulin. This binds…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About Diabetes & Toxicity
Diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases of the western world having exploded by over 600% in the last 35 years (1). If we look at Australia alone, there is one new diagnosis of diabetes every 9 minutes. (2). Usually, weight is the leading risk factor for diabetes, however with increasing numbers of new…
Read MoreTackling the Cholesterol Myth
Eggs are often maligned due to cholesterol levels, but is cholesterol really the issue we’ve been made to believe it is? In this article, we will take a look at one of modern medicine’s most sacred cows. We will dismantle the myth that cholesterol causes heart disease. Part of what we’re going to cover is…
Read MoreWhy Can I Have Cheese, Yoghurt & Butter But Not Milk?
Cow’s milk has a long history as part of the standard western diet, and other than meat is often the major dietary source of protein. Milk, for many, is also the major dietary source of calcium, which presents many problems of it’s own, resulting from the low availability of the calcium in milk. While the…
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