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Insulin is a critically important body signaling hormone made by the pancreas and released whenever you need to lower the level of...

Iron is critical to your health and brain function.  The human body needs the right amount, not too little and not too much as with most...

Open the box, pour the cereal into your bowl, add milk and maybe some fruit. It is quick, convenient and you leave for work with a full...

It’s nearly 10am, you have been busy and it is about 3 hours since breakfast.  You are feeling a bit cranky and have been watching the...

Learn about oxalates, they can be poisonous.

Just reading an opinion piece by Max Rashbrook in Stuff, titled "The half-hour trip that robs some Kiwis of 10 years". He clearly...

What you eat determines the health of your gut and this determines your overall health. Read more here……

Arthritis , what should I be doing to help myself?

Genetics and Your Health from “Takebackyrhealth.com”. Is your destiny locked in because of the genes you inherit? There is an underlying...

(article supplied by Myvision.org) You have likely heard about diet and exercise as a prescription for a variety of health issues from...

Most people have some idea about what they should and shouldn’t eat, but many are very misguided. Magazine articles, cereal boxes,...

Saturated Fat couldn’t have a worse name with visions of unhealthy overweight people, poor diet and clogged arteries like hot fat...

The summary of one study claimed: “These results indicate that dietary nitrate may serve important gastro-protective functions”.

Deep within the cells of your body there are small structures called mitochondria. They are so small that a billion of these could exist...

In 2000, Micheal Poulain and Giovanni Mario Pes documented a group of locations around the world where there was an abundance of people...

The “so-called” experts on diet and health seem to be once again twisting the numbers to achieve some alternative gains at the expense of...

You may have heard of serotonin, the happiness molecule, but do you know what it really does? Serotonin is a chemical produced in your...

Have you heard that before, “Just reduce calories and do more exercise”. If you asked most people including many doctors how to lose...

In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis , a young doctor working in Austria noticed that more young women were dying after childbirth in the hospital...