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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
- Jun 25
- 3 min
Reduce your Cancer risk
Some easy steps to reduce your Cancer risk.
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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
- Apr 29
- 2 min
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...
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George Elder
- Feb 18
- 7 min
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...
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George Elder
- Nov 30, 2022
- 3 min
Can you eat too much Spinach?
Learn about oxalates, they can be poisonous.
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George Elder
- Nov 19, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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George Elder
- Oct 19, 2022
- 7 min
What are you feeding your bacteria?
What you eat determines the health of your gut and this determines your overall health. Read more here……
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George Elder
- Oct 10, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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