Eat chocolate to beat diabetes.
One of the biggest diet fallacies to date is that sugar causes diabetes and artificial sweeteners are the healthy alternative. In the last two decades in Australia diabetes has increased 300%, 275 people are diagnosed every day, by 2015 it is estimated that 4.6 million people will have diabetes in Australia. Since 1980 world wide […]
Australia- The undernourished country
Approximately 60 percent of the population is considered overweight, and almost one-third is obese, serious diseases are linked to what we eat and kill an estimated three out of four Australians each year. These diseases include heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, some types of cancer, and diabetes. The food we eat is killing more […]
Recycled Newspaper Poses Problem with Toxic Breakfast Cereals
Breakfast cereals, pasta, rice and other foods packed in cardboard boxes could be contaminated with toxic chemicals. The chemicals, known as mineral oil hydrocarbons (print on newspapers), appear to be leaching from the recycled paper used to make most cardboard boxes. Research in Germany and Switzerland found the levels to be between 10 and 100 […]
Gluten intolerance differs from Celiac disease.
DOCTORS are not yet able to explain the condition but Kim McGlinn knows the misery gluten intolerance can inflict. Ms McGlinn, who runs HealthyFeast, a Leichhardt bakery, has heard customers’ stories of the possible effects of accidentally consuming gluten: violent illness and overwhelming tiredness. Now Australian researchers have found that people can be gluten intolerant […]
Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead Movie
It is worth watching the trailer of this movie. I tried buying it from the US shop but it is unavailable in Australia. So I called my trusty health film distributor who told me that it should be available for Australians by the end of the month. I’ll let you know how you can get […]
Goji Berries A Himalayan Miracle food finds it’s way into Australian gardens
I was at a friends 50th birthday before Christmas and I ran into a couple that I hadn’t seen in ages, they moved to New Zealand to open a whole sale nursery in superfood plants. Kevin from Glucina’s Tropical Plants has a second year shipment of Goji Berry plants going out to Bunnings at the […]
The wonders of sunlight.
Chapter 39 of Changing Habits Changing Lives has been saying this for the past 12 years. So good to see finally the truth is being told about the wonders of sunlight. Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1335364/Tanned-women-live-longer-say-scientists-Lund-University-Sweden.html
Health insurance companies looking for healthier people!
Two Groups Health Insurance Companies Want to Insure – Are you in that group? Health insurance companies in the United States as well as around the world have identified that there are three groups of people that they insure. Two of the groups they are very happy to insure the third group they have no […]
Read the ingredients, don’t worry about the fat, salt and sugar content!
Here we go again, worrying about the fat, salt and sugar of fast food, what about the rest of the ingredients! Do you really think most people who visit fast food outlets on a daily basis really care about the fat salt and sugar of their diet, If they cared they would be home […]
Movie of the Month – Brain Development and Addiction
Dr Gabor Maté M.D. is a physician and bestselling author whose books have been published in nearly twenty languages worldwide. Dr. Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics, from addiction and attention deficit disorder (ADD) to mind-body wellness, adolescent mental health, and parenting. A renowned thinker and public speaker, […]
Early Test for Dementia
What wonderful news that there may be an early test for dementia, what is scary is that the lesions for dementia and alzheimers are being found in 40 year olds. Let’s prevent this disease by eating foods rich in essential fats, like chia oil, hemp oil and inca inchi oil, more on these three amazing […]
The Brain in your Gut- Movie
This video goes for about 15 minutes. Did you know you have functioning neurons in your intestines — about a hundred million of them? Food scientist Heribert Watzke tells us about the “hidden brain” in our gut and the surprising things it makes us feel.
What Does Leaky Gut, Vitamin D, Inflammation and Autoimmune Diseases have to do with Gluten?
Everything you eat except for pure clean water has an inflammatory or anti-inflammatory effect on the body. Inflammation is caused when there is an injury or foreign hazard on or in the body. If you eat a food that the body sees as something foreign, it will mount an immune response in order to rid […]
Iodine deficiency ‘dumbing down’ Australia
In keeping with the policy here at Changing Habits of providing you with vital information regarding your health, we have great pleasure in forwarding you this article that was published in the Sydney papers on the 31st October this year. Danny Rose October 31, 2010 AAP A mineral deficiency which can dumb […]
Farm-raised bluefin tuna spawn controversy.
New technology uses hormones to enable the endangered fish to breed in captivity. It was ‘80s band REO Speedwagon who insisted on its album cover that “You Can Tune a Piano, but you can’t Tuna Fish.” But recently, marine scientists around the world have been proving the rockers wrong—they’re “tuning” bluefin tunas’ biology, implanting hormones […]
Salty Shock!
Read the transcript, watch the video and be absolutely blown away at the report on salads being more high in saturated fat and salt then a Mc Donalds Hamburger. This is a report by the Heart Foundation, who states that the best salad with less fat and salt was a McDonald’s salad and that most […]
