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Daily health insurance with a multivitamin
Posted on Sun, 25 Apr 10

Daily health insurance with a multivitamin

A multivitamin formula can help ensure that your daily requirement of over 40 essential vitamins and minerals is met. Emerging evidence suggests that maintaining optimal daily micronutrient intake may help prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, macular degeneration and osteoporosis (1).

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Almonds are nuts about your health
Posted on Sun, 4 Apr 10

Almonds are nuts about your health

A small handful of almonds each day is a great way to enrich your diet with several important nutrients and may reduce your risk of heart disease risk by a remarkable 30%.

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An apple a day keeps cancer at bay
Posted on Sun, 4 Apr 10

An apple a day keeps cancer at bay

The anticancer effects of apples are perhaps more pronounced than any other type of fruit or vegetable. Eating more than one apple a day for example could cut your colorectal cancer risk in half.

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Diet for cancer prevention and care
Posted on Mon, 22 Mar 10

Diet for cancer prevention and care

Although the link between smoking and cancer is well known, many people are not aware that other lifestyle factors are equally significant determinants of cancer risk (1). Cancer development has little to do with genetics and is determined by environment and lifestyle factors that can be changed to dramatically reduce risk and even delay disease progression (2). At the cornerstone of cancer prevention and care is diet.

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Food labelling: information or propaganda?
Posted on Thu, 25 Feb 10

Food labelling: information or propaganda?

What if everything you had been told about nutrition was wrong? The health claims on the labels of processed and packaged foods are often misleading and designed to trick you into eating food that is bad for your health, even so called health foods.

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Spice up your diet and enjoy better health
Posted on Thu, 1 Oct 09

Spice up your diet and enjoy better health

Herbs and spices have been used by humans for millennia with archaeological evidence dating back over 50,000 years. Although used in small amounts and often considered simply flavouring herbs and spices have profound health effects. The potential benefit of herbs and spices range from improving digestion and mood to helping prevent chronic diseases such as type-2 diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimers disease and certain types of cancer (1,2). It is often the small things in life that have the biggest effect.

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