I’ve been coming across a lot of recent research showing that Vitamin D plays a much more important role in preventing disease and building health than anyone ever suspected. Yet research also shows that many people are deficient in this valuable nutrient. Why the deficiencies? Well, with all the concerns about skin cancer, more people [...]
Let’s face it. Junk food is addictive. It’s fast, easy, and loaded with chemicals to make it taste, look and feel better …in other words, to disguise its insipid, bland, ugly deadness. Without all those artificial flavourings, texturizers and colours, it would look as dead as it really is. You’re not deceived though. You’re trying [...]
Do you realise that the modern diet is typically high in foods that are not only dead and therefore provide no real nutritional value, but are behind the rapid increase in chronic and serious diseases over the past century? Why would you want to eat foods that actually harm you? Sugary refined foods, junk food, [...]
For years, I’ve been advising my patients to eat a Rainbow Diet, that is, a diet based on a wide variety of fruits and vegetables of all colours. Why? Because the natural colour in plant foods is provided by chemical compounds known as Phytochemicals, and these compounds have been found to provided enormous health benefits. [...]
If cooked food is so good for you, why do we often feel so tired after eating it, and head for the couch? The main reason is that cooked food can take much longer to digest, and our bodies have to work harder to process it. That’s because cooking kills off the enzymes in plant [...]
