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Food Foundation - Bridging the Gap

Food Foundation - Bridging the Gap

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.

Breast Thermography

Breast Thermography

This emphasis is on early detection, especially in young women where breast cancers are more invasive, is the goal of any breast-screening programme. Thermal imaging would fulfil this role, with ideally, every woman having a baseline thermogram before their first pregnancy and, if normal, a comparative thermal imaging every few years or after any unilateral breast changes are discovered.

Reiki Therapy & Bioenergetic Bodywork

Reiki Therapy & Bioenergetic Bodywork

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.

Plant Pioneers

Plant Pioneers

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.

Osteopathy – Myths and Misunderstandings

Osteopathy – Myths and Misunderstandings

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.

The Good Grains

The Good Grains

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.

Sugar Ages You

Sugar Ages You

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

Breakfast Cereals

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.

Multiple Sclerosis Part 2: What To Take

Multiple Sclerosis Part 2: What To Take

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.