What is Metabolic Health?
In these days of COVID19 we hear that people with poor metabolic health usually suffer a much worse outcome from getting infected with...
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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 9, 2021
- 3 min
Antioxidants to beat Cancer?
Free radicals are produced in your body as part of your immune system’s defensive activity, plus other activities such as response to...
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George Elder
- Jun 1, 2021
- 4 min
Fibromyalgia beaten?
They identified a direct correlation between HbA1c scores and the Fibromyalgia.
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George Elder
- May 29, 2021
- 1 min
Pizza Recipe found.
Pizza is easy and very much liked by us, and so when switching to Low-carb (Keto) we went looking for a good replacement pizza recipe....
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George Elder
- May 25, 2021
- 5 min
Whole-grains, are they healthy?
If you follow conventional dietary advice you will recognise the expression “Healthy Whole grains” and you have been bombarded by a...
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George Elder
- May 24, 2021
- 3 min
Are carbohydrates addictive?
Are some carbohydrates addictive. A number of researchers’ are taking this thought seriously and conducting studies to try and establish...
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George Elder
- May 22, 2021
- 2 min
New 3rd Edition released
Preface to the 3rd edition. Have you ever heard of the ‘Dunning-Kruger’ effect? Part of this describes a condition whereby people with...
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George Elder
- May 15, 2021
- 3 min
Changing your genes!
If a ketogenic diet can reduce brain seizures and lower blood
pressure, then what you are eating really matters.
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George Elder
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Keto for your brain
The world is taking notice of the link between what we eat and brain health. Take a look at this article from the Irish times where...
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George Elder
- May 11, 2021
- 4 min
Low Salt, is it really healthy?
Is low salt really healthy? More recent research suggests that we may be healthier with a higher level than current guidelines.
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George Elder
- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
Ketone Chemistry
The Keto diet has made ketones a buzzword, and people are buying measurement devices to find out if they are in ketosis or not....
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George Elder
- Apr 30, 2021
- 3 min
Ketones are Good for your Brain
Research plus some peoples experience suggest a keto diet can assist with issues such as seizures, Alzheimer's, depression, and anxiety.
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George Elder
- Apr 18, 2021
- 3 min
Inflammation
This might be the most important thing you can learn about your health. You know what happens when you damage your self such as with a...
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George Elder
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
Anti-Nutrients
It seems many people do not know about anti-nutrients. They are the bad guys and can substantially lower the nutrition value of food you...
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George Elder
- Apr 10, 2021
- 3 min
Low Carb for Fertility
Human fertility seems to be declining. My research suggests that there are dietary ways to assist with this problem and increase...
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George Elder
- Apr 3, 2021
- 5 min
Changing what's in the mirror
You are bombarded by messages about body shape and size which can create feelings of inadequacy. What to do? One option is to ignore...
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George Elder
- Apr 2, 2021
- 3 min
Cholesterol Revisited
What we thought we knew about cholesterol is changing as we learn more.
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George Elder
- Mar 18, 2021
- 4 min
Insulin Resistance or "hyperinsulinemia"
Have you heard of Insulin resistance? It is a condition where excess insulin gradually eats away at your body without showing much in the...
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George Elder
- Feb 20, 2021
- 4 min
Have you done enough research to go VEGAN?
So you thought that becoming vegan was easy. You just stop eating anything animal based. Well then you may be in for a nasty shock soon....
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George Elder
- Feb 13, 2021
- 3 min
Eye Health and your diet
In the human body there are some blood vessels that are very tiny, particularly in our extremities and in the brain, kidneys and the...
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