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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...

Iron, it’s in your Blood.

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...

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...

Traditional Health

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

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,...

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...

Bacon Woes

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

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...

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...

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...

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