Supplementation benefits preschoolers
on Nov 21, 2009 in kids supplementation multivitamin allergic We celebrated Yasmin's 5th birthday today. A gaggle of screaming girls invaded our suburban peace fueled by an overdose of sugar and food colorings.Reading tonight about papers that will be published in December's Journal of Clinical Nutrition a pape...

Child obesity - are we part of the problem?
on Nov 19, 2009 in kids weight loss obese I am mortified, though not surprised to find out that we might be part of the childhood obesity epidemic. Our eldest has genetics that helps her gain weight. She is always hungry and her body can convert any excess energy into fat. When she was small...

Tips for increasing your variety of foods.
on Nov 18, 2009 in variation meat fresh fruit and veges In todays news it is stated that the British housewife only use 9 different meals to feed her family. Now apart from the sexism that it is the women who cooks the meals got me thinking about what we eat. I was asked by a good friend the other day wha...

A Brazil nut a day keeps the free radicals at bay. Selenium - NZ'ers need to increase their intake.
on Nov 16, 2009 in RDI time lag selenium ODA 10 years ago there was an article published looking at Selenium in NZ population. This study found that NZ'er need to take an additional 60 micro grams of selenium every day to maximize enzyme and antioxidant function. This 60 micro grams is on top o...

Get red peppers instead of green ones
on Nov 15, 2009 in peppers carotenoids Sitting at my desk yesterday while wrestling with computer problems. While waiting for things to install I randomly picked up a journal and started reading....... this is what I found:Red peppers have just over 7 and half times more caroteniods as gr...

Western medicine works miracles - a heart warming story
on Nov 13, 2009 in kids blind miracles western medicine People, including myself, in complementary/alternative medicine are at times critical of Western medicine. Most of the criticism is how Western medicine doesn't see the body as a whole unit, but breaks it down to small individual details. Resulting i...

Classic example of poor western medicine - oral health and western disease
on Nov 13, 2009 in vitamin P teeth western disease oral hygine This is the mirror post of my previous post about how wonderful western medicine is. So if you haven't read my previous post, please do it now. In the same paper as the wonderful article about western medicine creating miracles is an article titled "...

Love your kids: Give them a supplement
on Nov 12, 2009 in kids supplementation intelligence Giving your children (or yourself for that matter) a supplement is not an indication that you are a poor parent or that you have somehow failed to provide them with a healthy diet. Firstly the food you have purchase may not have enough nutrients in i...

Stop the downward mental health spiral - get a multivitamin/multimineral supplement
on Nov 10, 2009 in mental health depression multivitamin multimineral eating disorders mental disability Mental health illness are exceptionally challenging. Appetite regulation and diet is strongly tided to mental health. There are a number or reasons for this, in no particular order they are:1) Eating for comfort. High fat and high sugar foods make th...

Stomach staple: Get some multivitamins / multiminerals !
on Nov 10, 2009 in thyroid multivitamin multimineral stomach staple I had a work colleague who was morbidly obese. Over time I got to know him quite well and he told me how he got to be so overweight. He had thyroid issues. His thyroid wasn't working right, so his body burnt huge amounts of energy as the basal metabo...