It’s that time of the year when those diet pill and potion products start sounding extra alluring.  All we want is the “Let’s shake it off quick approach”.  But don’t be fooled – it’s these quick fixes that are the start of our real problems.  Drastic diets and quick fixes change your metabolism which means you might win the battle, …

How old are you really ? A question that is being asked more and more frequently today. Although a  relatively difficult question to answer it is becoming more relevant in our fast paced world of today.  Due to the rapid  advancements in the medical fields, advanced nutrition and other invasive procedures, people are living to much older ages than say …

Have your attempts at eating well turned into an eating hell?  With the new focus on health and nutrition and health stores popping up on every second corner, books on nutrition appearing in record numbers and an ever-increasing plethora of ways to eat be it veganism, fruitariarism or another it’s hardly surprising to find there’s a new eating disorder making …

So Christmas looms and yet again you ponder how to survive those mounds of food along with all the added calories of alcohol.  Every year seems to be the same – if it isn’t the pickled pork that you over-indulge on, it’s the brandy butter Christmas pudding or Quality street sweets.  And as if that isn’t enough there are all …

When we pop our head out the womb, our neural pathways are unformed and we understand little about how our world works, or what is expected of us.  But we soon learn that if I cry, I get picked up; and if I continue to cry, I’m likely to get. As I experience life, my neural pathways are laid down …

Women experience and react to stress differently  from men.  Both men and women experience stress with its related health problems and risk implications. Most, if not all illnesses and ailments have an underlying current of long term stress at the source. Some problems related to stress affect only women:

What is it and what does it do? Fatty acids are the building blocks of dietary fats. The human body stores such dietary fats mainly in the form of triglycerides. Triglycerides containing omega-3 fatty acids are mainly found in fish.