Food & Drink

‘I am really suffering from cephalgia today' may sound a lot more distinguished than ‘I've got a headache' but they are, in fact, one and the same.

Dr. Hans Selye, the stress expert and author of Stress without Distress said that it is not stress that is harmful but distress. Distress occurs when unresolved emotional stress is prolonged and not dealt with in a positive way.

This weekend saw the announcement of the Leeds Loves Food, a food lovers' festival calendar of events, via www.leedsliveitloveit.com. The festival, which runs from 1st-4th July, will include:

A few years ago I came across the work of Dr Emoto, a Japanese scientist, who has written several books on the subject of water. His work provides factual evidence by photographing frozen water crystals showing the effect that human, vibrational energy, thoughts, words, ideas and even music can affect or influence the molecular structure of water, the very same water that comprises over 70 % of our bodies.

How much water we need on a daily basis does vary. According to how much exercise you are doing and what your diet is like, roughly 1.5 litres to 3 litres daily is recommended.

It's logical that what goes around must, in time, come around. This is certainly so in the case of ‘natural remedies', ‘botanical medicine', ‘medical herbalism', ‘herbal medicine', ‘herbology' and ‘medicinal horticulture'.

Spring is a wonderful time to look to nature for a natural way to cleanse and detox. A few months ago I embarked on a Natures Larder Medicine Chest course to learn about our native wild plants and discovered the delicious wild greens of nettle, dandelion and burdock.

A study out this month shows that nature may have been keeping secret the key to training harder and burning more fat for millions of years.

A natural product that makes you train harder and burn more fat during your training sessions, sounds a bit too good to be true, but not according to the leading journal 'Medicine and Science in Sports Medicine', which this month published a study1 that showed some incredible results...

Maintaining a healthy diet of fruit and vegetables is common sense, but in today's modern world, the nutritional value of our food is decreasing.