Take Back Your Health

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

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”.

Most diets advocate; to lose weight you reduce calories and you will, but, only for a limited time. Reducing calories, drops your...

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

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...

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

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

There are many opinions about dietary protein levels. Here I have attempted to simplify the information to help you choose the best levels.

In these days of COVID19 we hear that people with poor metabolic health usually suffer a much worse outcome from getting infected with...

The Keto diet has made ketones a buzzword, and people are buying measurement devices to find out if they are in ketosis or not....

You are bombarded by messages about body shape and size which may create feelings of inadequacy. What to do? One option is to ignore...

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....