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My cholesterol is 5 – do I need to get it down??

Answer: In general, the lower your cholesterol, the better. Your blood cholesterol level is one of several risk factors that contribute to your risk of cardiovascular disease. Other risk factors include your age, blood pressure, weight, physical activity level and whether you have diabetes. When all these risk factors are compiled together, this is [...]

June 19th, 2009 | Category: Q & A | Comments are closed

Flaxseed oil is just as good as fish oil

Fact: A client once told me she poured flaxseed oil over her breakfast cereal. My initial (private) thought was “yuck, that can’t taste good”, but I was also intrigued. A web-search on flaxseed oil advertisements yielded claims bordering on the miraculous.  I felt relieved she wasn’t swigging it straight from the bottle! There’s a [...]

June 1st, 2009 | Category: Food Myths | Comments are closed

Fact Feast June 2009

Pumpkin
While some people around the world consider pumpkin only fit for animals, the rest of us can only grin gleefully at our secret that pumpkin is delicious and nutritious for humans too! Its beautiful golden colour and natural sweetness are a feast for the senses and super-healthy as well. Pumpkin is a little higher [...]

June 1st, 2009 | Category: Fact Feast | Comments are closed

News June 2009

Multivitamins fail to protect women’s hearts
Taking multivitamins is common, and perhaps people taking them consider it a bit like health insurance. New research has shown taking multivitamins has little or no influence on the risk of women developing cardiovascular disease (and several common cancers). In the largest study ever undertaken with this group, 161,808 [...]

June 1st, 2009 | Category: News | Comments are closed