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Results of the Total Diet Survey (third quarter), which sampled fruit and vegetables to see if they contained pesticides and heavy metal residues, gave the lie to the New Zealand Food Safety Authority’s spin that our food is free from residues.

Treating illness isn’t about eradicating a microbe or feeling better right away, but about gently guiding the body back to its natural balance point so that it can heal itself and built natural resistance.

I was asked to analyse some documents relating to the debate on the meningococcal B vaccination programme. What unfolded is a tale of pseudo-science. Ideological belief systems, medical politics, false statements, misrepresentations, hyperbole, and downright deceit…. and that’s the good news!

Sugar makes life sweeter, but artificial sweeteners have their downside, such as weight gain, diabetes, cancer links and cavity issues. Since this article was published in 2005, the food manufacturing companies have been placed under pressure to reduce the sugar content in their food products. Manufactures also responded to the European Commission call to reduce, or remove existing sugar levels in food products, however the food company response has been to research and use artificial sweeteners instead.

If you are a regular reader of Health Options past magazine and now website www.healthinformation.co.nz you will have read about the important trace element, selenium.

This First Aid selection is a list of home remedies for those human complaints that can develop into more major complaints, if not attended too straight away.

‘Fats’ get a bad name, but not all fats are bad for us, even when you want to lose weight. Some are in fact ‘essential’ to good health metabolism, which means we must consume them on a regular basis. So what are they?

People with sensitive health issues can be affected by the home environment that they live in, sometimes they feel that the only option to improve their health is to shift to a new house.

Why Prepare a Decongestant Vapour? A decongestant is useful for decongesting the lungs from the irritants that aggravate chest colds and flus, causing breathing difficulties. A decongestant vapour relieves the restriction and tightness caused by chest complaints and is the ideal treatment for conditions like bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma right through to the sniffles with runny mucous.