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If we consider the promoted, but simplified version of the ‘Healthy Food Pyramid’ mentioned previously, we are supposed to get the bulk of our nutrients from breads and cereals, preferably whole grains.

An ‘energy tightspot’, is where the energy flow has been restricted and is the result of an impulse to express something. The drive of the body is always for expansion, this is what all living things do and as a growing life-force before adulthood, our drive is to experience and learn all we can.

It was the missionaries of Spanish Colonial America who first observed the impact of fever tree had on malaria in local native people and this highlighted the value of plants as medicine to non-indigenous people.

Bread can be the stuff of life, but modern technology has turned our bread, even our whole grain bread into a poison. Grains are laced with pesticides during the growing season and in storage, they are milled at high temperature so that their fatty acids turn rancid.

Anyone on a low carb fat diet who is consuming products labelled ‘sugar free’, ‘diet’ or ‘low carb’ is also at risk as the dangers of artificial sweeteners add to the risk of aging.

Breakfast cereals purchased in health stores are no better than those purchased at the grocery stores. They may not contain sugar or artificial colourings, but these cereals are made by the same process and often in the same factories as the cereals sold at the supermarket.

To gain the maximum benefit from our diet, it is important to know which foods are high in this mineral. Virtually all green vegetables such as spinach are good sources of magnesium, because the centre of the chlorophyll molecule contains magnesium.

So how do we get off the treadmill and begin to believe that money doesn’t buy you happiness? For most of us it is about choice and the belief that money buys us options. Sure, having money means you can choose between a Mercedes or a Porsche, but even without money you have a choice - you can choose to be happy right now or not. Choosing happiness is not something you buy, it is something you create and feel.

The best medicine is prevention. This means a healthy weight, regular exercise and a daily healthy diet to stabilise blood sugar and insulin levels, with the long-term goal of maintaining an appropriate glycaemic response, based on the amount and rate of sugar released into the bloodstream after eating foods.