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A Case of Otitis Media

by June Butlin

Otitis media, inflammation and infection of the middle ear, is common in young children. Its many possible causes, including food allergies and lack of breast-feeding as babies, ar...

A Common Dietary Problem: Inadequate Protein and Fats

by Judith Price

Judith Price, a nutritionist also trained in hypnotherapy, describes the nutritional and dietary treatment given to a lady suffering from depression, fatigue, hormonal imbalance an...

A Good Beginning

by June Butlin

Michael is a lively, sensitive, impulsive, verbally adept thirteen-year-old of high intelligence with a wide general knowledge that would put many adults to shame. However, he is s...

A Guide to Supplementation within Health and Complementary Medicine

by Dr DF Smallbone

In the best of all possible worlds, supplementation is not necessary. Unfortunately, we do not live in the best of all possible worlds. We live in a far from natural world and th...

ADD or Iodine Deprivation?

by Kate Neil

Nutritionist Kate Neil relates the story of a 65-year-old woman who wished to improve her mental function, suspecting that she was suffering from attention deficit disorder (ADD).<...

An Anti-Inflammatory Diet - The Antidote to Pain

by Jesse Cannone

We all suffer with inflammation to some degree, says the author of this article, but over time a build up of problems can cause it to flare up and cause pain. What we eat is ultima...

An Holistic Nutritional Programme for Hepatitis

by Dr Sandra Cabot

Hepatitis is a general term used to describe inflammation of the liver. The article outlines the dietary techniques that can be used to strengthen the liver and help it to overcome...

Antibiotic Treatment - Protection and Recovery

by Nicki Woodward

In this column the author says that although as holistic practitioners in the modern world, we often have to accept that antibiotics play an unavoidable but often valuable role in ...

Bone Building Nutrition - Calcium Not the Only Key

by Mark James Tallon

Bones are truly amazing structures that mend and rebuild themselves by the actions of two cells types – osteoblasts that form bone and osteoclasts that resorb (destroy) bone. This ...

Boron: Major Cause and Cure for Arthritis

by Rex E Newnham

Forty years ago, Dr Rex Newnham developed arthritis, and orthodox medicine did not help. His analysis of the differences between the fertility of clay soil and sandy soil (sandy so...

Brain Health

by Ann Crowther

This column focuses on brain nutrient deficiencies and what steps we can take to achieve and maintain optimum brain health.

Breakfast

by Wilma Kirsten

This article starts off describing the standard breakfast of cereal and milk, most often, these days, packaged, highly processed cereals, often sugar coated. This high-carb, high s...

Build Up Your Defences For Winter

by Penny Crowther

The Germ is Nothing, the Terrain is everything. The famous nineteenth century bacteriologist, Louis Pasteur uttered the previous sentence towards the end of his days. Having spent ...

Carob is a Fantastic Chocolate Substitute

by Anastacia Sampson

Carob, a very old food, and a member of the pulse family, is very similar in taste and consistency to chocolate. The article cites nutritional studies concerning it: a lower GI tha...

Cave Men Didn't Eat Cornflakes

by Diana Earnshaw

We are still genetically programmed for the hunter-gatherer diet. What was good for us thousands of years ago is still good for us now. Taste buds were the only guide to the foods ...

Diet Controversies

by Udo Erasmus

Let us take a short walk through different diets that traditionally sustained human populations on different parts of the globe. We will show the involvement of fat and oils in t...

Diet During Renal Failure and after Kidney Transplant

by Dr Mohan Krishnarao Kale

In patients with chronic kidney disease or/on dialysis, the purpose of this diet is to maintain a balance of electrolytes, minerals, and fluid in patients.

Dieting - A Recipe for Failure

by Peter Cohen

Dieting, like conventional medicine, works on the expectation of failure. Conventional medicine is designed to deal with ill health and it factors in a high drop out or death rate....

Eat Less, Naturally

by Gina Pickersgill

The author discusses how eating has served both the function of keeping us alive and healthy, and as a cultural way to share time together, including cultural rituals around food a...

Eating with the Heart in Mind

by Gina Pickersgill

What is it about food that makes us want to realize its nutritional benefits? Why are we so enthralled in finding out what it can do for our health and why is it used as a medium to...