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Muscle Relief

Muscle Relief

You have just finished that extra exercise routine, or shifting those heavy boxes, perhaps spent more digging time in the garden or decided on an extra physical routine?

Lactose Intolerance

Lactose Intolerance

Lactose is the primary sugar found in milk, and is a disaccharide (a double sugar molecule), comprising one molecule of glucose and one molecule of lactose.

A Good Reason Not to Take Drugs

A Good Reason Not to Take Drugs

An Auckland energy worker who uses Aura Soma therapy has treated young people who have used drugs. “Using drugs destroys the energetic protection around people”, says the former social worker turned trained healer who asked not to be named in order maintain client integrity.

Daily Aspirin Use

Daily Aspirin Use

Daily use of Aspirin® has been linked with pancreatic cancer. Aspirin has been described as the drug of the millennium, but is it? A recent report on Harvard University’s ongoing study of 88, 000 nurses has revealed that those who took two or more aspirins a week for 20 years or more had a 58 per cent higher risk of pancreatic cancer.

Life after a Hip Replacement

Life after a Hip Replacement

Nelson woman, Maureen McKain is living proof that surgical intervention combined with natural therapies and a positive attitude blend well together.

Berry Good

Berry Good

A whole range of berries, once seasonal, are now more readily available throughout the whole year. Of course, the fresher the fruit one eats is better, but other options to eating fresh fruit are items like berry juice, frozen berries and concentrated berry jams and syrups.

Impetigo Skin Condition

Impetigo Skin Condition

I have a daughter living overseas who suffers from recurring bouts of impetigo so I asked a naturopath for help. Let me explain why I did.

In the Mood Foods

In the Mood Foods

Over the centuries, people all over the world have added food ingredients from the land grown around them and mainly through trial and error, chosen a few items as natural libido boosters.

Sunburn

Sunburn

Summer is the season in which we indulge in soaking up those wonderful sun’s rays of energy, which is important for bones, our blood cells and one’s immune system, along with that surge of vitamin D and a boost of our moods as we melt away the winter blues.