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Most people know that eating green vegetables is good for us. Broccoli is one of those 'greens' that we all know is very healthy. However we also have tastebuds that influence our diet, and each of us a range of responses to broccoli, from love it, can eat it sometimes, to just can't stand it. Now some clever scientists have come to help us in a couple ways. Firstly, they have studied just what makes broccoli so healthy – through the discovery of Glucoraphanin contained wit

April 8, 2010

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It's amazing how nature provides for your health. The difficulty can be in in knowing how and when to use her best provisions. While grandmothers tips and recipes may well be based on useful anecdotal experience, these days you can also apply more modern science to prove the effectiveness of natural products. In part to measure natural products up against industrially produced pharmaceuticals, and in part due to man's natural desire to understand just how things work, scienti

November 15, 2009

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What is so good about olive leaf extract? Well, lets first make it clear that fresh is best. Extract produced from very fresh olive leaves that is. As leaves are left for a few days, or dried before being processed then they naturally lose much of their efficacy (goodness) during that time. Now in Australia Olive Leaf Complex is being referred to by some people as the new echinacea. OK, lets step back a bit and consider what Echinacea is good for. Echinacea is “popularly be

October 19, 2009

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What is Manuka Honey? It is a flavour of honey that comes from bees visiting the flowers of the manuka plant, a native of (found only in) New Zealand. Recently it has gained worldwide ‘buzz’ from New Zealand itself to the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Japan, the USA, and many countries in between. With press reports in traditional newspapers and magazines, and plenty of mentions on the internet, is this really special honey, or just another over hyped and over marketed snake

August 27, 2009

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One of the arguments against natural remedies over the past few decades has been the lack of scientific evidence supporting their use and backing up their health claims. nnWhile modern drugs are artificial creations from a laboratory that require significant testing and trials to show they won’t cause too many side effects (and its amazing how many still get approved even with quite significant known side effects and risks), often natural remedies have passed the test of ti

August 5, 2008

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How honey is a great travellers first aid resource.nnAn African safari, trekking in the Himilayas, visiting the beaches of Thailand, snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, or climbing in the Alps. Just some of the wonderful adventurous travel options we have these days. You have your own list of places you would like to see, and things you want to do. nnWhen you’re in the middle of your dream holiday, far from home, smile on your face, fresh air on your checks, the last thi

March 9, 2008

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Honeybees really are amazing animals. Apart from providing a vital role in much of our food supply through their help with pollination, they also provide us with fantastic, natural, healthy bee products. nnWhen thinking of bees, for most people it is honey that comes to mind.nnOver the past few years honey has been regaining its reputation for its naturally healthy qualities. Helped by more research effort, this has been particularly led by the unique healing properties, prov

January 27, 2008

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Unique manuka honey is obtaining increasing worldwide fame for the healing properties that are found in some batches of this New Zealand produced honey. nnWith more people trying it, and using it for many different purposes, there is growing anecdotal evidence that it does help in many of them. Here though we will look at five of the most common uses of the properly tested ‘UMF’ active manuka honey, including those that have the most supporting research.nnTo start, lets q

September 17, 2007

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