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Q - I am a 55 year-old vegetarian, married with four adult children. Eighteen months ago, I developed definite symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome – diarrhoea, frequent motions, bloating, wind, distension and sometimes undigested foods in my motions.

Rather than being labelled a disease, constipation is a far too common health condition, which is experienced when evacuation of waste material from the colon is sluggish and stools have become hard and difficult to pass, thus making elimination of the bowel matter difficult and uncomfortable.

Every day at least half of my clients say that they are feeling fatigued. I often hear people state: “I’m so tired, but I have to push myself to keep going”

Falsified meningococcal data distributed. The Ombudsman intervened to ensure that the Ministry of Health standard 2004 annual meningococcal disease report prepared by the ESR was released.

I frequently experience tinnitus and have the beginning of eye cataracts. Is there anything I can do? Annette. Christchurch.

The people who seek naturopathic advice for fibromyalgia almost always start by saying they are relieved to have a diagnosis of their collections of symptoms, although most have been told at some stage through their diagnostic search, “it’s all in your mind”.

Your naturopathic help. Question: I have, for years been bothered by adhesions in my lower abdominal areas. These have formed since having a hysterectomy in my late thirties.

That fluttering, hammering, erratic heartbeat that appears occasionally, that can take your breath away. In many cases, this erratic heart flutter mostly occurs at night while you’re lying down resting.

I am in my mid forties and am becoming concerned about my aging eye sight. I know that generally you can expect your eye sight to deteriorate with age, but would very much like for this not to happen, as I really do not want to have to wear glasses.