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Why, is our health so bad. Some questions to consider.
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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.
I have a diploma in nutrition, a certificate in sports nutrition and study good nutrition research. Subscribe for free regular updates.
Take a read, you may be astonished by what you learn.
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George Elder
- Aug 9
- 3 min
Olive Oil Warning
You could be fooled by the marketing information on your bottle of olive oil. Be aware of how to select the most healthy Olive oils.
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George Elder
- Jun 11
- 2 min
What to believe about Diet?
Maybe what you need to eat is simple. The reasons for poor health may come down to common dietary causes.
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George Elder
- Aug 6, 2022
- 8 min
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...
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George Elder
- Jul 3, 2022
- 3 min
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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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 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
- 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
- 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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George Elder
- Jun 22, 2021
- 4 min
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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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 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
- 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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