Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
My Purehealth blog that has been going now for over 20 years! Anything to do with health and wellbeing, I share news, views, research, comment, recipes and tons of stuff that I think could help you or your loved ones. Use the search to find what you need; I’ve no doubt written about it somewhere!
Some of you will have seen the media reports about a new regulatory body, the CNHC (Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council), which has been set up to bring complementary medicine under one body. The point really is to stop cowboy operations and protect both the public and competent practitioners. The first therapies to be added …
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When it’s cold outside, you tend to drink more warm drinks, don’t you? Philip came up with this idea. We bought a cheap coffee filter machine from Asda for a fiver. Pour some water into the machine as if you’re making coffee, but instead pop two redbush tea bags into the glass jug and let …
It suddenly occurred to me the other day that I have never thought to make a hot smoothie! Try this – it’s warming and comforting, and a great snack mid afternoon as it’s quite sweet, but filling and low calorie: Pop some soya milk, soya yogurt and a banana into a blender and whizz together. …
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Many of you have no doubt noticed that the e-shop has been closed for the past 2 weeks. So sorry about that – I won’t bore you with the technology; suffice to say I have been wrestling with IT, and IT won! In fact it has made me think through the whole ordering of products …
This is the same response I gave 2 years ago when, funnily enough, the same media stories were out then… “You – and millions of others – can’t fail to have seen all the detox bashing that’s been going on in the media since Christmas. Not sure where the basis of this has come …
That lung cancer researchers in New Zealand reckon cannabis is 20 times more carcinogenic than tobacco? Or to put it another way they believe one joint is equivalent to smoking a pack of 20 cigarettes. Shocking! That whizzing air into a smoothie rather than having it flat, so to speak, will make you feel …
I don’t know about you, but at this time of year I love something warm and spicy in my pitta bread (non wheat, of course!) How about this – great as a side or main dish too with some rice? Boil some spuds and wilt some spinach. Fry a teaspoon each of turmeric, ground coriander, …
More on nuts here…A study recently assessed the effects of three diets on people with metabolic syndrome (that is, high cardiovascular and diabetes risk): a low-fat diet, a Mediterranean diet supplemented with olive oil (1 litre a week) and a Mediterranean diet including 30 g of mixed nuts each day. The nut mix was 50% …
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It’s a shame that we only tend to get the nutcrackers out at Christmas, because freshly shelled nuts contain loads of nutrients. Take walnuts, for example. Making them part of a balanced diet can help counteract the damage to arteries caused by fatty food as they contain a nutrient called arginine that helps the body …
WDDTY December 2008 Your eyesight doesn’t have to fail as you grow older. Researchers have discovered two simple things you can do to protect your sight well into old age, and ward off the worst effects of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). After reviewing the lifestyles and vision of 4,753 participants aged 65 and over, researchers …