by Cyndi | Nov 14, 2012 | Medications/Vitamins |
In the late 1950’s a sedative drug used to treat morning sickness in pregnancy called thalidomide caused a horrific drug disaster whose emblematic images of limbless and handicapped babies born to distraught mothers linger to this day. The United States Congress swung...
by Cyndi | Nov 13, 2012 | Fats, Health Foods, Healthy Eating |
Unfortunately like many “health” products today, not all coconut oils are created equal and to find the best it is important to understand the processing that happens in the birth of a batch of coconut oil – because more often than not it is the processing of foods...
by Cyndi | Nov 13, 2012 | Fats, Healthy Eating, The Nutrition Academy |
Our body is a fat machine, all our cells have fat, our brain is made up of fat, we carry fats in our blood stream to make hormones and vitamin D as well as other important communicators, we use fat for storage for the lean times. We not only use fat for storage but...
by Changing Habits | Nov 7, 2012 | Healthy Eating |
When I saw this 15 minute TED video about the edible town of Todmorden in the UK I was moved to action. Firstly I rang my local councilor to see if I could start a community garden on the spare council land in my street. It was weeks before I got a letter to say...
by Cyndi | Oct 10, 2012 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Medications/Vitamins, The Nutrition Academy |
As you know I am not a fan of breakfast cereals. They are the most profitable food on the supermarket shelf, they have false health claims that would curl your toes and their marketing and advertising is full of extravagant claims. The food is barely a food, it...
