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How diet affects breast cancer
- Cancer
Number crunching Breast cancer is the UK’s most common cancer affecting women. Every year, over 44,000 women are diagnosed with it and 12,000 die from it. A staggering one in…
Break Free
- Bone health
Bones grow until we’re about 20 years old and then stop – but they don’t then become just a lifeless structure supporting our body. Bones wear and are damaged so they need to be continually repaired.
Growing up big and strong
- Child Health
- Osteoporosis
It’s the dairy industry’s most successful myth and you have to wonder how this simple marketing fib has managed to penetrate our education system all the way up to university…
Demolishing the enduring myth that you need cow’s milk for healthy bones!
- Dairy
When I was in my early twenties I had a very slim friend who seemed to survive on just coffee and cigarettes. Oh yes, and her daily pint of cow’s…
Joint venture: Does a vegan diet alleviate the agony of rheumatoid arthritis?
- Osteoporosis
Never mind the text books, what does rheumatoid arthritis really feel like? I found out through the Healing Well arthritis forum: “I feel like I’ve been run over by a…
Eczema, asthma, hayfever and diet
- Allergies
- Eczema
- Fats
The sun is here and for some brings with it the summertime blues. But sneezers also tend to be wheezers and scratchers – as poor old hayfever sufferers are much…
Old age shouldn’t mean ill heath!
- Age Related Health Problems
- ageing
- Fish
Simple lifestyle changes can improve your chances of a long and healthy life, as nutritionist Amanda Woodvine explains as she shows you how to… The number of people who make…
Milk – spot on!
- Acne
- Dairy
Skin is the body’s largest organ and has a string of important functions but what we usually care about is how it looks. The last thing it needs is acne and there is…
Old age shouldn’t mean ill heath!
- Antioxidants
- Vitamins and Minerals
Old age shouldn’t mean ill heath! Simple lifestyle changes can improve your chances of a long and healthy life, as nutritionist Amanda Woodvine explains as she shows you how to…