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The Best Nutritional Start for your Baby - Part I
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
Human babies natural food is raw, whole breast milk, not animal or vegetable formula. Infants require only breast milk for about the first eight to nine months of life
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The Best Nutritional Start for your Baby - Part II
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
Weaning is an important experience because it establishes attitudes, approaches and emotional ties to eating, digesting and assimilating foods. Weaning should not be rushed and the...
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The Best Nutritional Start for your Baby - Part III
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
At the beginning of Part I[1] of this article series, it was mentioned that love was the greatest gift any parent could give a child and covered right feeding as one aspect of love...
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The Clinical Impact of Vitamin C: My Personal Experiences as a Physician
by Thomas E Levy
My ongoing relationship with vitamin C now spans a full 20 years, when I first met Dr Hal Huggins, a pioneering dentist who opened my eyes to a wide array of clinical approaches to ...
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The Effects of Fat on Weight Loss – Good or Bad?
by Penny Crowther
For many years we were told fat was public enemy number one and that it must be reduced at all costs. Yet low fat diets have generally not worked very well. If they had, we wouldn’...
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by Nicki Woodward
This column focuses on our genes and the modern diet. Statistics on diseases highlight the fact that our bodies have not yet evolved to cope with junk food on a regular basis. Alth...
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The Harm of Children’s Sugar-Filled Vitamin Supplements
by Nancy Appleton and GN Jacobs
Children's chewable and gummy vitamins may possibly be the worst thing for your child. We've been told for years that our children may need the supplements to make up for shortfalls...
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by Wilma Kirsten
As human beings developed from being hunter-gatherers to raising domestic animals and crops, nutritional values were affected, and modern agricultural production methods take thi...
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The Hidden Epidemic: Is Your Thyroid making You Fat?
by Resham Khiani
Having trouble exercising away the unflattering ‘spare tires’? If you’ve adopted a healthy diet and a disciplined gym regime but see no results, then perhaps it’s time to check your...
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The Impact of Artificial Sweeteners on Family Health
by Dr Debbie Saxton
The latest official advice on the Government
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The Importance of Micro-Nutrients in Optimum Health
by Cain Leathem
This article examines several aspects that can influence or hinder the uptake of essential micro-nutrients that we need to consume in order to maintain optimum health. These includ...
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The Importance of Minerals to Health
by David E Marsh
At a time when we have just begun to get our minds around the 43 or so "essential nutrients", we are now informed there may be some 40 more: many of which, unless we were familiar ...
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The Importance of Nutrition in Improving Mental Health and Rehabilitation Outcomes
by Daniel Thomas
Improving nutrition can transform a person’s mental state when suffering from conditions such as depression. Studies are increasingly showing that a poor diet can be detrimental to...
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The Importance of Nutrition in Sports
by Bernard Beverley
An expert and adviser on nutrition, Bernard Beverley offers a comprehensive overview of the importance of a nutritional diet for sportsmen and women of all levels of fitness. The a...
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The Mismanagement of ASCVD: A Call for Root Cause Solutions Beyond Cholesterol
by OMNS
We have documented the reversal of 10 cases of cardiovascular diseases, including two with up to 70% coronary artery stenosis, through an integrative orthomolecular medicine approac...
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by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
In this article the author focuses on the quality of nutrients and nutrition today. Food, she says, should contain bulk, nutrients and fuel. Plants grown in non-toxic mineral and ...
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The Nutrition Maze Part II - Not For Eating
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
In the first part of this two-part article the author explained the importance of using high-quality, pure food sources. In this second part she looks at sources that are not suita...
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The Nutrition Maze Part III - Brain Involvement
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
The author looks at digestion in this issue and how important it is to create the right environment for good digestion to happen. She explains that digestion is used for the body t...
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The Pitfalls of Reductionism in Nutrition
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
Reductionism disregards essential synergy – the interaction of factors making their combined effect greater than the sum of their individual parts. According to the author, unde...
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The Power of Corrective Nutrition
by June Butlin
However, in 1993, at the age of 52, she encountered health problems. She started to suffer from extreme mental and physical tiredness, and her weight started to creep up. She was...




