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02
MAR
2011

A wonderful farewell from RRR

What a marathon farewell show this morning. Sorry we were talking so much we didn’t get time to take all the calls. Thanks also for your tweets and messages off air. It was so much fun catching up with Bruce Berryman who gave me my first spot on RRR, Jonathan Alley on the...
02
FEB
2011

The Climate Change Diet: better health for you and the planet

Recent months have dished up an undeniable serve of extreme weather. Australia, Brazil, Southern Africa and Pakistan have been battered with monumental floods and storms. Christmas found many in Europe and North America stranded by record blizzards. While there will always be...
01
DEC
2010

A healthier Christmas for the body, mind and spirit

Need some strategies to help you sparkle this holiday season? Here’s my naturopathic “best of” for your body, mind and spirit this Christmas. Mind It’s not unusual to feel jaded by the time December rolls around. How you’ve lived for the previous eleven months will determine your...
05
NOV
2010

Stress: Part Three – Natural Remedies

Part three in a special series on stress. Part one looks at the biology of stress and part two shows you ways to change your reaction to stress. “Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that...
04
NOV
2010

Stress: Part Two – Changing Our Reaction

Part two in a special series on stress Read part one on the biology of stress.   Stressed is desserts spelt backwards. (Anonymous)   Biology is one thing but it doesn’t have to define us. For me, the science of stress is a useful lens to explain symptom. For example,...
03
NOV
2010

Stress: Part One – the Biology of Stress

“Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.” Andrew Denton   Stress has always been a part of life. Biologically, stress is the chemical cascade that gets triggered in response to threat, that has kept the human species evolving. But what was once an...
06
OCT
2010
are carbs good for you?

The skinny on carbs

In the past decade we’ve become a carbohydrate obsessed nation but there’s more to carbs than the celebrity diets would lead you to believe.   What are carbohydrates? Carbs cover one of the widest range of foods. Chemically it is formed from a delicious chemical combination...
02
SEP
2010

Even more on sugar

Thanks for the amazing response to the show this week. We ran out of time to take all the calls and the website got a gazillion hits. It took me by surprise what a hot topic sugar is. I’ve done programs (pre-website, sorry the notes aren’t archived) about hypoglycaemia and other...
01
SEP
2010

Sugar: is it a natural part of life?

You know the saying “if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is”? When it comes to “healthy” sweeteners inevitably most fall into that category.   Most people think of sugar as that sweet crystalline substance, refined from sugar cane or beet. Often referred to...
04
AUG
2010

Zinc

This article on zinc is part of an occasional series on vitamins and minerals from 2010   Zinc essentials Zinc is sometimes called the “essential toxin”. Unlike other metals such as arsenic, cadmium and mercury, zinc is not only beneficial but also essential for the body to...
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