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Take Back Your Health

Learn to use food as medicine. Understand Keto and Low Carb eating.

What I have learned about nutrition and health.    I have published a book, "Take Back Your Health", available on Amazon.  Link box above.

I have a diploma in nutrition, and study good nutrition research.  Take a read, you will be astonished by what you learn. 

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Do you need Insulin?

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

Are cereals healthy?

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...

Snacking and Obesity

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...

Your DNA can be hacked

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

Diet, Nutrition & Good Eye Health

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

Rethinking your Diet

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

Bacon Woes

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

Support your Mitochondria

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

Blue Zones and Genetics

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

Red meat risk for Health

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...

Overcoming Anxiety

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

Just reduce calories

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

Learning can be slow in Medicine

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

Are Vegetable Oils Killing Us?

It's a puzzle. Despite extensive research on the dangers of excessive levels of linoleic acid in our diet and the resulting increase in...

Planned Eating

So, you just had your first consultation with the wellness guide. He first asked about your goals, eating history, explored what foods...

Your Microbiome is you

Perhaps you are being controlled more than you realize. Ed Yong wrote a fascinating book called “I contain multitudes” in which he...

Cancer and your Diet

There is a debate about cancer, as to whether cancer is a genetic disease, e.g. it’s in your genes and there is little you can do, or is...

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