Are you getting tired of all the newest "superfoods".
Every year, or even every few months there seems to be a "new" food available which will solve all our problems.
Here's a youtube webinar posted by Deakin University in Melbourne's Associate Professor Tim Crowe.

Superfoods and Supermyths

It's a really well thought out and well-researched presentation!

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The other day I wandered up and down the cereal aisle at the local supermarket to search out a breakfast cereal that did not have either sugar or oil added to it. The healthiest cereal I could find still had honey added. I am certainly not impressed with the multitude of words now being used for what is essentially sugar - raw sugar, unrefined sugar, natural cane sugar, evaporated cane juice. That last one really annoyed me!

Of course you could be healthy and eat oats, porridge, muesli for bre...
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A report in Sciencedaily.com has brought my attention to a recent study  published in the American Journal of Epidemiology by a European research group - the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). We all knew intuitively that eating fruit and veg was good for us!... but now some compelling scientific evidence!

This particular paper finds that 3 out of 100 deaths could be prevented if everyone ate an extra 200grams of vegetables. This is mainly because of a reduct...

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We all know that omega 3 is good for you... mainly to improve your cardiovascular health, but also with neurological benefits.

But how to get the same benefits from vegetarian/vegan sources??
Most studies are performed on fish oil supplements... so in theory we need to try and match this.
The best vegetarian/vegan source at present looks like oil from microalgae.

I've started to research this a little... so stay tuned for more information... and see my health information page for a list of websi...
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Of course being healthy is not all about food!

I have started exercising again... that is... exercising on purpose to try and improve my fitness.

I've been following exercises from this website: http://www.bodyrock.tv/   --i've started with exercises from 2009.
Following this for 2 weeks now, and exercising every second day... that means about 20 minutes of exercise every second day. I'm already feeling fitter. I tried sprinting across our local oval the other day and found I was hardly puffed!...
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Protein is essential for growth, healing and every day bodily function. It is relatively easy to acquire your necessary protein requirements if you think of essential amino acids rather than protein.

Protein is made of amino acids. If you eat protein, the body breaks it down to amino acids first, and then rebuilds from these amino acids the proteins that you require.

What you do need to focus on are Essential Amino Acids. Essential amino acids are the amino acids which your body cannot make, a...
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