Festive season weight gain in the November – January festive season can be anything up to half a kilogram. Over-indulgence, holiday slow down and high-calorie foods are common contributing factors. The news isn’t all bad, though. There are four simple strategies you can use to minimise your holiday weight gain. In summary, these are: There’s…
The rate of change in the world has put big demands on people – demands to do more, work harder and “soldier on” in the face of illness. Before there was a pharmaceutical industry – with it’s “wonder drugs” that prevented and treated disease – healing was the result of a process, not a tablet…
I’ve been enjoying the 3-part ABC series Magda’s Big National Health Check – where actor Magda Szubanski takes us along on her personal health journey – and what she learned about the structural issues in today’s society that are making more of us sick than ever before. The third episode of this series included some…
This fascinating article “Defending Against Post-Infection Cardiovascular Disease” by Michael Passwater was published in a recent update from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service. It warns about the long term risks of COVID that are being identified. “Following a serious viral illness, an increased risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, venous thromboembolism, and death may…
There is a resurgence of acute COVID infections in Australia and across the globe. New omicron variants are continuing to surface. (In Victoria, waste water testing indicates sub-variants BQ.1 and XBB now make up 10 per cent of total cases.) Not only are more people getting sick, more people will be at risk of the…
The jonquils and the wattles are flowering – along with grasses across the country – so it’s hayfever time. (Or seasonal rhinitis – which is its medical name.) If you get in early, there’s a lot you can do to minimise your symptoms and keep yourself well. What causes hayfever? Hayfever happens when the balance…
Spring is with us again – and that means it’s hayfever time. If your body has allergy reactions, then this recent research finding could be really useful for you to know about. New research has uncovered a novel approach to hayfever – one that which looks at restoring the normal balance between immune system cells…
COVID is a virus – and a particularly nasty one. Like other viruses, some unlucky people don’t recover fully. Instead they develop Post Viral Syndrome – whether the original bug was COVID, Epstein-Barr or other viral infections. So many people in so many places have had COVID – sometimes multiple times – that LONG COVID…
Yes – it happened to me. Despite our best efforts to self-protect, I got the bug. And on the last leg of our trip to Queensland while we were still in the caravan! I reckon it was from the amenities block where people were coughing and I couldn’t jump out of the shower quickly enough…
We’re learning more every day about just how bad big glucose spikes are for everyone’s bodies – AND not just for diabetics. There’s increasing evidence that sugar and highly processed carbohydrates are also associated with inflammatory problems like arthritis, sleep disruption, cardiac issues, cancers and increased menopausal symptoms. It’s really easy to get overloaded with…