The latest version of the Healthy Eating pyramid has been released. To be blunt- I am not that impressed. In the USA they have figured out that a plate has more meaning than a pyramid as one can more readily show proportions on a plate that people actually eat...
Winter is approaching in the southern hemisphere. Is it worth getting a flu shot? [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssICd4gm6I[/youtube] Dr JoeDr Joe Kosterich – Doctor, Health Industry Consultant and Author Doctor, speaker, author, and health industry...
Recently I saw the film “That Sugar Movie”. This is a documentary about the consumption of sugar in society. Damon Gameau, who usually is on a healthy diet goes onto a high sugar diet for 60 days to see the effects it has on him. The one-man experiment approach is...
While avocados were once shunned due to their high fat content, they are now taking centre stage in many healthy diet plans, and for good reason. Avocados are not only full of healthy fats, they’re also a source of essential nutrients, and provide a wide range of...
We are constantly told that medicine is based on scientific evidence. This chorus is never louder than when professors, academics and health authorities seek to disparage as “unscientific” anything that they don’t like or which challenges their particular view of the...
