Know your onions! Onions are well known for their medicinal values. It is one of the foods suggested along with garlic to keep us free of heart problems. It has also been traditionally used to help with colds, chest infections and ear ache. A common cure for bronchitis in the old days was to cut [...]
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Heart, Health and Exercise
Heart, Health and Exercise The man who brought us an awareness of the importance of exercise is almost 100 years old, still fit, and still working! It was 60 years ago in 1949 that Jerry Morris considered the data that he had collected on the instance of heart attacks. He had decided to study men [...]
Natural Remedies for Prickly Heat
Prickly Heat, Nettle Rash, Hives, Urticaria Four names for the same thing, a specific skin condition caused by huge amounts of histamine released by the Mast cells found in the skin. It can be caused by a number of things, dust, pollen, animal fur, and excessive heat. The name Nettle Rash is appropriate because that [...]
Supplements not substitutes
There is much written at the moment about how dangerous supplements can potentially be, the suggestion being that many people use them instead of a decent meal. This of course is wrong, and there should be no substitute for wholesome food. Could it be that the supplement ogre is just around the corner waiting to [...]