How Toxic Is Your Cooking Oil?*

Toxic oil found in the golden oil aisles at your local supermarket

Why should you care about damaged oil molecules?

A toxic oil molecule is an oil molecule that has changed shape and no longer looks like an oil molecule that nature designed. This means that these damaged oil molecules are toxic to your body...

5 Lifestyle Tips To Help Your Brain

These Lifestyle Tips Could Help Save Your Brain

Research has shown that there are a number of activities that can be incorporated into your lifestyle that can prevent cognitive and physical decline. Adopting some simple daily habits, and doing them regularly, as well as paying closer attention to the ones you do anyway, will result in both cognitive and physical health, as you get older.

What’s All The Fuss About A Gluten-Free Diet?

Gluten Is A Very Tough Protein

Gluten is the common name for a small group of proteins that are found in wheat, rye, barely and oats. It is also found in other, more ancient forms of grass-like cereals, such as spelt, kamut and triticale.

Your Aging Brain Needs Specific Nutrients To Stay Healthy

Your brain cares about what you put in your shopping trolley

Although the discussion about brain aging generally centres on cures for dementia, with Alzheimer’s being the most common type, very few people discuss the possibility of preventing the problem in the first place. Isn’t prevention always better than cure?

Type II Diabetes & EFA’s

How the right fats and oils can protect you from this insidious disease

What is now called lifestyle or adult onset diabetes is a condition where ones body loses its sensitivity to glucose, and therefore becomes insulin resistant.

This means that cells do not respond properly to insulin when it’s present, because the cells have become less functional.

Food, Mood & Time Of Day

What you eat at what time can influence how you feel during the different stages of the day

Your body and brain require different nutrients at different times of the day, and when you know what they are, you can maximise your effectiveness.

How Stress Works And Why It Is Killing You And Your Brain

Ongoing stress does kill neurons!

The physical and psychological effects of stress are profound and far-reaching, and the process is as follows, from the first step to the last.

Understanding the process can help you to see why it’s so important to get stress under control, by managing your response to events and situations that you can’t change.

Depression And Fats And Oils

Eating the right fats and oils can lift your mood naturally

The link between heart disease and depression is a common one, and you may assume that it’s quite normal for someone who has heart disease to be depressed.