A comparison of four popular diets – Atkins, Ornish, Zone and LEARN. Read this – and learn what REALLY is good for you.

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A study in Germany has found that organically grown apples have 15% higher anti-oxidant properties than non-organic.
The study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, compared the content of polyphenols and anti-oxidants in Golden Delicious apples over a three year period.
We do not recommend eating too many apples as, especially these days, the [...]

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A study of 2000 Chinese women has shown that women consuming a third of an ounce of mushrooms a day were 64% less likely to develop a tumour of the breast. The study found that the more mushrooms eaten, the greater the protective effect. It was better where women consumed not only fresh mushrooms, [...]

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A survey of 5000 men has found that men gained an average of a stone during pregnancy. The reasons are several fold.
Firstly there tend to be more snacks around the home (women put on an average of 2½ stone). And men tend to choose to snack on high-fat foods.
Secondly, doting husbands and [...]

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To deal with Swine Flu it is best to make sure the immune system is working strongly.
The fundamental approach to strengthening the immune system must be to keep improving your lifestyle – bit by bit, and over time. For example:

Improve your diet, eg

Eat more vegetables
Eat more berries (and less high-sugar fruit)
Cut down on [...]

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Researchers at Michigan University Cardiovascular Center have discovered that if you want to lose weight, slimming down by adding blueberies to your diet could be the answer.
They found that rats lost belly fat when their diet included blueberries. As well as slimming them down, the berries also lowered the rats’ risk for Metabolic Syndrome, [...]

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The SHS blog has some interesting information about Wheat Grass and Spirulina in a recent post.
Wheat Grass and Spirulina are two highly nutritious herbs which can be part of anyone’s diet. Just take either of them every day – much like you’d take a multi-mineral-vitamin.
Spirulina is loved by small children. 2 and 3 [...]

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Bowel Flora (Probiotic) supplements may help relieve Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), according to a new meta-study (an analysis of past studies).
There is little in the conventional armoury to treat IBS successfully; so it is good that the medics have identified as beneficial something which won’t do any harm; i.e. it’s not a drug.
The study [...]

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Some reports state that, because of the credit crunch, organic vegetable and fruit sales are down around 20%.
This may be a false economy.
Organic food consistently has lower levels of pesticide residues than does non-organic. The amounts of these residues may be relatively small, but their effects can certainly be damaging when they [...]

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Do you want to lose weight – and be fashionable too? Andrea Sachs in Time Magazine looked earlier this year at the latest books on weight loss diets to hit the book stands. Is one of them the new South Beach Diet?
In fact, more that [...]

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