Not long ago I read that the average mother these days gets about 20 minutes to herself a day. (Seeing my sister with her 3 girls, I can hear her shouting, like I’m guessing you might be, “20 minutes, oh I wish!”) As a mum these days (you not me!),
Are you contributing some of your hard earned dollars to the billion-dollar cosmetics industry trying to keep your skin healthy and younger looking but are overlooking one or more of the real keys to healthy, youthful skin? Now I am all for using (chemically free) external skin products where needed
Have you heard of nanotechnology yet? If not, you will soon…and BEWARE! Nanotechnology is a technology that will allow scientists in laboratories (always the first clue that something is not as Mother Nature intended) to deliver things like drugs, nutrients or chemicals in highly targeted ways. I.e. directly into your
Sugar. . . raw sugar, brown sugar, white sugar, natural sugar, sugar substitutes, fructose, sucrose, glucose, artificial sweeteners, Stevia, agave nectar, coconut sugar, palm sugar!!! Yikes! Everywhere you turn these days, there is some article, debate or new type of sugar. Why? Because we are starting to realise just how
Today, food companies, many doctors and even some dieticians commonly recommend us to eat supposedly healthy margarine instead of evil butter. But should we listen to them? As always, the first question to ask is, ‘Are margarines or margarine spreads naturally occurring foods?’ The answer is absolutely not. While starting
Hi everyone – I don’t say this often but this is one of the most important and exciting blogs I’ve written for a long time. Imagine if there was a completely ‘natural’ (and generally ‘free’) way to get one of the world’s most powerful anti-inflammatory and anti-aging medicines, which evidence
While it’s been a controversial topic for some years, a recent segment – Wi-Fried on ABC’s Catalyst program – graphically illustrated how our high use of mobile phones, Wi-Fi and other technological devices is probably not as safe as you may think. More and more evidence is now suggesting links
You might have heard me talk a lot over the years about the Ayurvedic concept of oral hygiene. I’ve discussed the problems associated with using commercial mouthwashes , and how in Ayurvedic medicine it is being prescribed for thousands of years to combine this with daily tongue scraping for keeping
This simple tip (written here for winter, but applicable to some degree year round) is one of the simplest, yet most profound things you can do to protect yourself from getting sick (colds & flu’s etc), to prevent that ‘heavy/depressed’ winter feeling & helping avoid those extra kilograms that always
*This is a REPOST of the blog from August 13, 2012 Did you scrape your tongue this morning? Good news. Another ancient health practice has recently been accepted and promoted by modern experts. Have you been to buy a toothbrush lately, and noticed many companies marketing a tongue cleaner on