Category Archives: Nutrition Articles

Lack of Vitamin A is more common than you might think. Yet it is not a vitamin that currently gets much publicity. This is because deficiency in developed countries is… Read more »

Health guru, Leslie Kenton called the menopause a “passage to power”. I like that description because it suggests a positive time of revaluation, redesigning and finding new purpose in life,… Read more »

It’s easy to ignore stress, accept it as normal or not even be aware of it.  Yet of all the factors that impact health, it’s one of the most significant.… Read more »

  WHAT IS OSTEOPENIA? Osteopenia means your bones are less dense than they should be which makes them weaker. If untreated, osteopenia can eventually turn into osteoporosis.  According to the… Read more »

Help for the Menopause – Soya is it Good or Bad? In Japan, menopausal hot flushes are so rare that there is no traditional word in the Japanese language to… Read more »

  SOUR FACTS ABOUT SUGAR! “Pure, white and deadly” is the title of a 1970s’s book, not much noticed at the time, about the negative effects of sugar on our… Read more »

VITAMIN E ARE YOU DEFICIENT? Whilst overt vitamin E deficiency is considered to be relatively rare in humans, it is highly questionable as to whether we are obtaining enough in… Read more »

According to the World Health Organisation, 350 million people suffer from depression and it is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Being depressed in addition to having a physical illness… Read more »

The secret ingredients of fruit and vegetables We all know that fruit and vegetables are good for us but it is only relatively recently that scientists have discovered specific plant… Read more »

Wheat – stuff of life or pain in the gut? If you are a typical shopper, your weekly supermarket trolley is likely to be packed with foods made from wheat… Read more »