Is Kale a Friend or Foe

Is kale a friend or foe

Is Kale A Friend Or Foe? You may not think that many of the green and leafy vegetables that form a big part of a “healthy diet” could actually do you more harm than good! Yet, if you are suffering from chronic pain or inflammation, this could be entirely blamed on natural chemicals called oxalates, which are contained in these so-called “healthy” foods. So is kale a friend or foe? What are oxalates? How can they harm us and which “healthy vegetables” contain high concentration of oxalates? Oxalates cannot be seen, tasted or smelled, yet we consume them almost every Continue Reading →

Healthy Travel Tips

Healthy Travel Tips Travelling is great fun, but whether you are travelling in your own country or overseas, one thing is certain, your normal routine goes out the window. Of course, doing completely different things is the whole point of travelling but here are a few healthy travel tips to help you get the most out of your holiday. Water This is the most important and the easiest to control. We always travel with our Fill2Pure stainless steel bottles that have a good filter inside enabling the safe use of tap water in most countries. They will take out most nasties Continue Reading →

What’s on Your Plate

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What’s on Your Plate? As part of the process of positive intentional living, one naturally changes shopping habits, especially food, over time, and we wonder if you have noticed this and realised that what’s on your plate now is different from a few years ago. We certainly have noticed this and how our food shopping habits have changed in the last few years. The main food exclusions or changes for us have been:- No conventional breads, cakes, biscuits of any kind for over 5 years (except very occasionally, maybe once in 3 months, when out). No so called “gluten free” Continue Reading →

Benefits of Colourful Food

Benefits of colourful food Okinawa sweet potatoe leeks and chicken

Benefits of Colourful Food How Colourful is Your Food? Eating a wide range of different and colourful foods is really good for us as it provides us with the diversity of minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, enzymes and polyphenols that are essential to vibrant health. These photos are just some of the foods and meals that we have eaten recently. Are you enjoying the full benefits of colourful food? The above photo shows what the Okinawa sweet potatoes look like when cooked with coconut milk and cinnamon – full of the most amazing antioxidants!! Remember to add a little cinnamon Verrum to Continue Reading →

How To Fix Your Gut Naturally

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How To Fix Your Gut Naturally Perhaps the single greatest gift you can give to your body and your health is to learn how to fix your gut naturally and keep it operating at optimal level. Why Is Fixing Your Gut Important? To avoid abdominal and gastro-intestinal discomfort. To improve your immune system. Fixing your gut will ensure that not only can you enjoy your food in the knowledge that you will not suffer from pain, cramping, bloating, constipation or diarrhoea, but also that your immune system will be operating to the max. doing what it is designed for and Continue Reading →

Vitamin K2 – Could This Be the Most Important Example of Food As Medicine? – Part 1

  K2 – JUST HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS LITTLE KNOWN VITAMIN? It is quite likely that you will not have heard of Vitamin K2. This is not so surprising because it was only officially discovered in 1997 as being different and distinct in its function from vitamin K1. Vitamin K1 was discovered nearly 70 years earlier in 1929 and is what we require in our bodies to promote efficient blood clotting, so that we do not bleed to death from a simple cut or wound. However, vitamin K2 was found to have a very different and equally important role to Continue Reading →

Diabetes

The Untold Truth about Diabetes Type 2 Diabetes is nearly 100% preventable. You won’t hear this from mainstream medicine — which ridiculously claims there is no cure for diabetes — because treating diabetics is just too darned profitable. Big Pharma is drooling over the profit potential of all their diabetes drugs worldwide. The fantastic news is that people are curing themselves of type 2 diabetes every day. It is a fairly simple and straightforward process, and when you cure diabetes you greatly reduce your risk of heart disease, obesity, cancer and dementia/Alzheimer’s at the same time. The only problem is Continue Reading →