Saturated Fat is Good for you
Saturated Fat couldn’t have a worse name with visions of unhealthy overweight people, poor diet and clogged arteries like hot fat...
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Using food as medicine.
Take Back Your Health
Learn to use food as medicine. Understand Keto and Low-Carb Diets.
Health and Diet Education. The field of nutrition and health is full of myths and mis-information. This blog and my book, "Take Back Your Health", will open your eyes. See link box below.
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George Elder
- Jun 27, 2022
- 5 min
Bacon Woes
The summary of one study claimed: “These results indicate that dietary nitrate may serve important gastro-protective functions”.
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George Elder
- Jun 19, 2022
- 2 min
Why Diets Fail
Most diets advocate; to lose weight you reduce calories and you will, but, only for a limited time. Reducing calories, drops your...
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George Elder
- May 28, 2022
- 5 min
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...
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George Elder
- Mar 18, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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George Elder
- Mar 2, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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George Elder
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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George Elder
- Jan 15, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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George Elder
- Jan 9, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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George Elder
- Dec 19, 2021
- 5 min
Should I take a Statin?
I had an interesting conversation with a young doctor at a local hospital recently. He was convinced that high cholesterol always...
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George Elder
- Oct 9, 2021
- 2 min
My Letter to NZ Government
Letter to every New Zealand MP, Government Minister and Prime Minister Sent to every Member of Parliament and Minister of the Crown, on...
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George Elder
- Oct 3, 2021
- 7 min
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...
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George Elder
- Sep 15, 2021
- 5 min
Fruit, is it healthy?
Is fruit really good for us? Can we eat too much fruit? Why is it linked with vegetables in our nutrition guidelines? Can too much fruit
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George Elder
- Sep 13, 2021
- 4 min
Planned Eating
So, you just had your first consultation with the wellness guide. He first asked about your goals, eating history, explored what foods...
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George Elder
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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George Elder
- Aug 24, 2021
- 5 min
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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George Elder
- Aug 12, 2021
- 4 min
I have Type-2 diabetes, HELP
You have a problem. Type-2 diabetes is a silent killer and is wreaking havoc on your body. Along the way it will damage your body in ways...
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George Elder
- Aug 2, 2021
- 3 min
Anti-Virus, Anti-COVID
Hi everyone. I just finished listening to the amazing Mary Ruddick talking about how to protect yourself from the more serious impacts...
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George Elder
- Jul 13, 2021
- 5 min
How much protein should I eat?
There are many opinions about dietary protein levels. Here I have attempted to simplify the information to help you choose the best levels.
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