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Herbs for Flavour

Herbs for Flavour

So what herb would you like to choose to add to your cooking? First choose a range of herbs that you enjoy using. Buy the plant from your local nursery and re-pot into a larger container, or plant in the garden close to your kitchen.

Childhood Tantrums

Childhood Tantrums

There is that moment in time when your child, or the child you are looking after is building up for a tantrum. Every child at some stage of there childhood (even as an older child) will throw a tantrum. A tantrum is when a child exhibits an uncontrollable physical, emotional outburst of noisy, sometimes tearful and frustrated bout of anger called a temper tantrum when they also stamp their feet or throw items around.

Stress & Immunity

Stress & Immunity

A number of factors impact on the function of the immune system – stress being one of them, and this effect has so interested science so much that a whole field of research has grown around it, known as psychoneuroimmunology.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Survivor By Kathy Fields

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Survivor By Kathy Fields

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is an autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks its own body. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is caused by genetic mutations (single nucleotide polymorphisms) that impair the central nervous system’s ability to adapt to stressful situations, according to a summary released by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, USA.

Cancer & Diet

Cancer & Diet

This article is about what is best to eat when you have cancer? Before we go any further, it is important for you to bear in mind that your doctor or oncologist has had literally no training in understanding how nutrition has had any impact on human health, and would you believe, it is very recently that medical science would accept that a person’s diet had any bearing on their level of health and disease at all.

Healthy Colon Recipe - Make your own Healthy Gut Lacto Bacteria

Healthy Colon Recipe - Make your own Healthy Gut Lacto Bacteria

A healthy body has a range of friendly lacto flora bacilli (bacteria) in the colon in which normal digestion and elimination of food takes place. Without this natural gut flora one has a challenge with breaking down digestible foods.

Sleep Apnoea

Sleep Apnoea

Most sleep apnoea sufferers complain of daytime tiredness and extreme fatigue. They can fall asleep during daytime activities, struggle with morning headaches and have trouble concentrating.

Garlic - Nature’s Antibiotic Medicine

Garlic - Nature’s Antibiotic Medicine

Garlic (Allium sativum) is one of the greatest natural medicines known to humankind. It is considered to be a natural antibiotic if taken in large enough doses, and it contains vitamin A, B and C, plus copper, sulphur, manganese, iron and calcium.

Castor Oil - the oil that heals

Castor Oil - the oil that heals

The therapeutic use of castor oil packs was re-discovered by Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) and is regarded by traditional nurses and naturopaths around the world as a very effective healing method, because of it’s anti-microbial and anti-anti-inflammatory properties.