Having a Healthy Baby

Planning to have a healthy baby should begin a long time before conception. Research demonstrates that the preparation of both the mother’s and father’s bodies may be critical to the future wellness of your children. When both parents are really healthy, they provide a favourable environment for a baby to develop, increasing the chances of [...]

Sun Screen Dangers For Children

Teachers restrict sunscreens over safety concerns By Simon Lauder ABC News. Updated Wed May 18, 2011 Teachers are concerned about the use of sunscreen containing nanoparticles. (ABC News) The Australian Education Union (AEU) wants to restrict the types of sunscreens used at schools. The union says sunscreen with nanoparticles poses unacceptable safety risks. Nanoparticles make [...]

Common Foods May Be Causing You Pain & Disease

I have seen a number of new cases lately of people with acute arthritic symptoms in their hands, knees, backs and other areas of their body. When I ask them if they have been eating more tomatoes, eggplants and/or capsicums, the answer is often “Yes”.  This time of year these foods are in abundance in [...]

Do You Suffer From Fatigue, Weight Gain, Mood Swings, Anxiety and Depression? If So, It Might Be Your Hormones!

One of the areas of health that I specialise in is Naturopathic Endocrinology (hormonal system balance) and I am amazed by the number of men and women that try to function each day with significantly dysfunctional hormonal systems. Often people are suffering from excessive levels of one hormone in conjunction with deficiencies of other hormones [...]

7 Simple Health Strategies You Need To Know

The following factors may help you achieve much better health and high vitality:  * Adequate, restful sleep (Around 8 hours of sound sleep a night is ideal) in a dark room with good ventilation.  * Regular relaxation needs to be built into your daily life. Reading, meditating, having a massage or listening to music can all promote relaxation.  * [...]

Why Masterchef May Be Hazardous To Your Health!

Have you been watching the Masterchef cooking series on TV? I love this TV show but I also grimace whenever I see them demonstrating a cooking technique that involves wrapping food in glad wrap and placing it in a pot of boiling water! It almost begs the question… “Would you like cancer served with that’? [...]

The Emerging Epidemics Of Childhood

Rather than a time of innocence and happiness, childhood has for many become a difficult health battle. Soaring rates of obesity, allergies, neurodevelopmental disorders and learning issues have Practitioners, parents and teachers all struggling to cope. Like the canaries in the coal mines, our children have become sensitive indicators of the substantial changes that have [...]

Women Are Dying From Hormone Therapy; Why Is Pharma Still Allowed to Push It?

Big Pharma is still pushing its hormone therapy for women, despite the fact that it increases women’s risk of cancer and other health problems. 21.10.10 Daniel Weber Want to increase your chances of getting, and possibly dying from, node-positive breast cancer? Take hormone therapy. Pharma’s lucrative estrogen plus progestin combo is already known to increase [...]

The Potentially Harmful Effects of Carrageenan

Review of Harmful Gastrointestinal Effects of Carrageenan in Animal Experiments Abstract In this article I review the association between exposure to carrageenan and the occurrence of colonic ulcerations and gastrointestinal neoplasms in animal models. Although the International Agency for Research on Cancer in 1982 identified sufficient evidence for the carcinogenicity of degraded carrageenan in animals [...]

Influenza Shot That Led To Fits in Children Has Been Approved

Influenza shot that led to fits is approved ‘The Australian’                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 29.10.10                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Natasha Bita A FLU jab that triggered fits in children will be rolled out again next winter. The Health Department gave the drug companies the go-ahead to make more of the controversial vaccine. The department’s Australian Influenza Vaccine Committee has approved a repeat production of [...]

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