Living The Low Carb Lifestyle
When drug companies begin producing grape flavoured statins for children and some experts suggesting that burger outlets should offer statins as “condiments” to counter the negative effects of a fast food meal. Some even debating whether statins should be added to the water supply, shouldn’t we be asking why? Dr Maryanne Demasi says “Follow the …
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Let’s look at the incredibly powerful properties of broccoli sprouts. Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and kale are an excellent source of nutrition and broccoli sprouts are no exception, with their potency concentrated into the tiny shoots of the young plant. According to Dr Jed Fahey and Dr Rhonda Patrick of Johns Hopkins …
Professor Tim Noakes, has long been a leading light in science based nutrition and author of the acclaimed book The Lore of Running, has for many years been an advocate of the low fat, high carb diet, but in 2010 he came across a then recently published book called The New Atkins for a New …
As we are only just beginning to discover that the Microbiome plays a major role in human health and disease. We are dependent on these bacteria to help us digest our food, produce certain vitamins, regulate our immune system, and keep us healthy by protecting us against disease-causing bacteria. In 2006 Bruce German and his …
On a visit to my dentist this week he informed me that a tooth would need to be extracted. Shocked by his prognosis I spluttered "What has caused this, I regularly brush, floss and rinse and I can assure you I don't eat anything sweet...anymore". As he swiveled on his stool to face my records …
The Egyptian diet was primarily carbohydrate rich, coming from bread, fruits, vegetables and honey. Occasionally they would eat fish, waterfowl and red meat, a diet that every doctor would have us eat today to avoid obesity, heart disease. and diabetes. Ancient Egyptians idealized images of themselves in their tomb paintings but in reality their statues …
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Broth made from bones of chicken, fish, pork and beef play a role in all traditional cuisines. Today we buy individual fillets and boneless chicken breasts, or grab fast food on the run, and broth has disappeared from the Western tradition. Broth contains minerals in a form the body can absorb easily, not just calcium …
Dr. Kate Rhéaume-Bleue author of Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox explains that without Vitamin K2, the body cannot direct calcium into the bones where it is needed, instead, the calcium sits in soft tissue (like the arteries) leading to a combination of osteoporosis and atherosclerosis. Her book reveals that there is now a universal …
Nina Teicholz, the New York Times bestselling investigative science journalist, has played a major role in challenging conventional wisdom on dietary fat. Her groundbreaking book, 'The Big Fat Surprise', looks at whether we have been wrong to assume that fat, causes disease. She has been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the British …
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