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Immediate Benefits of Eating your Veggies

Immediate Benefits of Eating your Veggies
Let’s face it, it can be difficult to eat enough veggies a day to look after your health. The desire to get through the last few brussel sprouts, kale or broccoli can be low if the consequence of eating them is going to be seen in many years to come. Good news is recent studies…
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Olive Leaf Extract to Kill a Cold

Olive Leaf Extract to Kill a Cold
  This time of year, you are almost guaranteed to catch some form of cold. The amount you suffer from this is down to recovering well with sleep, drinking plenty of water and of course optimal nutrition. Have you considered the power of olive leaf extract? There are compounds called phytoalexins which are like the…
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Nutrition to Tame Your Period Beast

Nutrition to Tame Your Period Beast
You are not alone if that time of the month leaves you feeling cranky, bloated and reaching for chocolate. You may already know some strategies to help make this time of the month suck a little less like exercising but do you know ways your diet can help make this time a little easier? Tame…
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A Lifestyle to Increase Your Lifespan

A Lifestyle to Increase Your Lifespan
20-30% of your lifespan is determined by your genes. The rest can be controlled to a large extent by optimising your environmental and individual behaviours. Positive changes to the way you eat, exercise and behave may keep your telomeres which act as buffers to the end of the chromosomes of your DNA and protect your…
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4 Common Inflammation Myths

4 Common Inflammation Myths
Are you one of the many confused by what foods cause inflammation? There are many ‘experts’ selling their opinion but unfortunately these opinions are often not backed up by science. Let’s clear up fact from fiction of 4 common myths on inflammation. Myth: Gluten causes inflammation. Fact: Unless you have celiac disease or are intolerant…
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Are you unnecessarily restricting wheat or dairy?

Are you unnecessarily restricting wheat or dairy?
With free reign for anyone to have a say what foods are good for your health and which are harming you it is unsurprising to see many people restricting food groups which are, for many, unnecessary. Fads, trends and cool ways of eating may seem harmless but restricting food groups unnecessarily may in fact be…
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The 411 On Your Gut Health

The 411 On Your Gut Health
Did you know 70-80% of your immunity is dependent on your gut? The influence of your health gut on your overall health status doesn’t end there but there is emerging research to show your gut microbiome or the type of number of bacteria in your gut also influence your mental health, kidney health, blood sugar…
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