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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...

Learn about oxalates, they can be poisonous.

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

What you eat determines the health of your gut and this determines your overall health. Read more here……

Genetics and Your Health from “Takebackyrhealth.com”. Is your destiny locked in because of the genes you inherit? There is an underlying...

Saturated Fat couldn’t have a worse name with visions of unhealthy overweight people, poor diet and clogged arteries like hot fat...

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

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

So, you just had your first consultation with the wellness guide. He first asked about your goals, eating history, explored what foods...

Perhaps you are being controlled more than you realize. Ed Yong wrote a fascinating book called “I contain multitudes” in which he...

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...

Free radicals are produced in your body as part of your immune system’s defensive activity, plus other activities such as response to...

They identified a direct correlation between HbA1c scores and the Fibromyalgia.

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....

Are some carbohydrates addictive. A number of researchers’ are taking this thought seriously and conducting studies to try and establish...