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Feed Your Body The Rainbow
Feed your body the rainbow By Louise Belle BHSc (Nut Med) The pigments that give vegetables and fruits their beautiful vibrant colours, come with their own array of health benefits. These pigments, otherwise known as phytonutrients have powerful antioxidant effects and help to protect your overall health. It is important to eat foods of every colour to ensure you are getting the greatest variety of nutrients. The organs and pathways in your body require specific phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals, present in different coloured foods in order to function optimally. Eating the colours of the rainbow will nourish your [...]
Is Your Thyroid Gland Affecting Your Skin?
Is your thyroid gland affecting your skin? By naturopath Margaret Jasinska If you are unhappy with the appearance of your skin, you may not have considered the influence of your thyroid gland. Correcting a thyroid problem can bring a big improvement in your skin’s health and appearance. Your thyroid gland produces hormones that regulate your metabolism. That means it determines how efficiently your body burns calories. Therefore a healthy thyroid gland helps you maintain an ideal weight and a normal body temperature. Thyroid hormones enable the cells of your body to produce energy and they also help to [...]
Protein And Weight Loss
Protein and weight loss If you are someone who is wanting to lose weight, boost metabolism and reduce cravings, increasing protein intake may be the way to go. If you are overweight or obese you significantly increase your chances of dying from fatty liver related diseases, diabetes or cancer, as well as an array of other health problems. By losing weight you not only promote a longer life, but your spirits will lift, you will have a more positive outlook on life, food will taste better, you’ll give your libido a boost, and cognitive function will improve. So [...]
The 10 Best Green Foods For Your Liver
The 10 best green foods for your liver By Nutrition Consultant Jessah Robinson The liver is a powerful organ that has many important roles in our body such as manufacturing many essential proteins, hormones and fluids, eliminating toxins, regulating fat and protein metabolism, storing important vitamins and minerals, filtering our blood to get rid of any unhealthy cells, regulating hormones and protecting our immune system. Because the liver carries out all these important roles, if your liver is not functionally optimally you will notice many symptoms arise such as digestive issues, unpleasant mood changes, headaches, high blood pressure, [...]
Looking After You
Looking after you GET FIT & MEAN IT! with World Champion Kate Bramley Sport is healthy, it makes you feel good, it picks up your metabolic rate and becomes addictive BUT when you start training seriously, it can affect your immune system and you can pick up viruses and infections quicker, especially after a big block of training, a race, a training camp on top of family life and a full time jog. There is ways to help your body recovery aside from healthy diet, heaps of sleep and drinking lots of water. I use Cabot’s Glutamine Pure Powder after each [...]
Glutamine Does What To Protein?
Glutamine does what to protein? Before getting to the actions of glutamine on protein, it’s important to have an understanding of what glutamine is. Glutamine is one of the 20 naturally occurring amino acids in dietary protein, specifically it is a conditionally essential amino acid that becomes essential during times of disease and muscle wasting that is generally caused by physical trauma. As it is an amino acid it is a building block of protein and is most present in the muscles. While glutamine was first recognised in the fitness industry as a supplement to help in the [...]
Fatty Liver
Fatty liver Liver disease is serious and requires treatment and regular monitoring by a liver specialist. A liver specialist is known as a hepatologist and you need to be referred by your family doctor or general practitioner. Over nearly 40 years of practicing medicine I have seen many patients develop severe liver disease, which sadly could have been prevented by early detection and early referral to a hepatologist. There needs to be more awareness of liver disease so that patients can be treated early so that we can prevent cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer. Make sure [...]
What Should You Be Eating If You Have A Fatty Liver?
What should you be eating if you have a fatty liver? Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is now the most common cause of chronic liver disease worldwide and will have a major impact on the health care requirements of many countries in the future. NAFLD can progress to cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure. These are the reasons I have done a lot of research into the diet and nutritional therapies that can reverse the pathology of NAFLD. The liver possesses remarkable properties of repair and renewal and it is possible to completely reverse NAFLD if it is detected [...]
Here’s What You Need To Know About Turmeric – The Liver-Loving Spice
Here’s what you need to know about turmeric – The liver-loving spice By Louise Baker BHSc (Nut Med) More than likely, at some point in your life, you have used the beautifully orange-coloured spice that gives that zing to your favourite curry dish. Turmeric powder is derived from a root that has been used in Indian and Asian cuisine and Ayurvedic medicine for centuries, and is from the same family as ginger. In recent years, research for the medicinal use of turmeric has been growing, and it is becoming more apparent that we should all be integrating turmeric [...]
Do You Know Enough About Diabetes?
Do you know enough about diabetes? By naturopath Margaret Jasinska Most people know there are 2 types of diabetes, but many do not understand that they have very different causes. The symptoms can be similar in the later stages, but in the beginning stages of diabetes, the changes that are happening in the body are incredibly different between diabetes type 1 and diabetes type 2. Diabetes type 1 is an autoimmune disease caused by the immune system attacking the insulin producing cells in the pancreas – once these beta cells are destroyed, the pancreas can never produce enough insulin. This [...]
