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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.

Osteoporosis particularly affects the richest nations of the world. It will take major changes in our food habits and lifestyle to prevent the leaching of bone calcium, thereby allowing us to preserve the precious stores of calcium we already have in our bones.

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.

If you have MS you simply have to learn to live without saturated fats as much as possible. Be careful of trans-fatty acids as food manufacturers try to pass these off as healthy vegetable oils, but in fact they are modified and heated oils which have been made to preserve foods like biscuits, muesli bars etc., which allows them to sit on the supermarket shelfs a bit longer.

Our emotions rule our lives and if we learn to increase positivity in our lives, we can increase happiness. This in turn will help our health and extend our life-span and make us much happier to get on with the things they are needed.

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.