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I confess to enjoying a cappuccino, but as ever, I have a keen eye for ways of improving the health benefits of it and minimising any possible downsides. I set about exploring ways to improve the health benefits of the standard offering.

There is no real problem with the coffee itself providing it is organic coffee. We are extremely fortunate to have a great local shop, Pret-A-Manger, that serves up both organic coffee and milk!

One website lists eleven potential benefits you could derive from drinking your daily cuppa.

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1. Cut the pain
2. Increase fibre […]
   

If we did, would it help save the resources of the planet?

I will show that the answer to both questions is probably no.

It is time to think before initiating a knee-jerk reaction or response. It is also appropriate to think of the consequences, in a larger context, of making such a sweeping change. Some changes would certainly be beneficial, but some would certainly not.

People are not all the same. That should be blindingly obvious to us all. But it doesn’t seem to be. Some people are night owls, while others are up with the […]

I was very lucky with the many training opportunities I had during the years after I graduated with my Naturopathic Diploma, at the start of the first half of my career in Australia.  At the time,  natural therapies, and the associated psychotherapies were forging ahead and we attracted a huge number of visiting professional speakers. They were mostly from America, and they were all amazed at the size of the audiences they attracted in small towns and cities in Australia.

One organisation that did us very proud was Grinder, de Lozier and Associates.  Neuro-linguistic Programming, […]

Last Friday, I provided a ‘whiz’ as my contribution to the dinner for the group of guests that joined me for our regular Open House Evening. I needed to make another dish this week that would show my guests that eating ‘raw’ can be delicious and satisfying.

It had been a busy day and I only had fifteen minutes between the departure of my last client and the arrival of the first visitor for the evening, so my dish had to be something quick! I chose ‘cauliflower rice’ which is a dish that many people […]

While I was in general practice in Australia, I enjoyed working with people with arthritis.  One morning, I was particularly inspired following a radio interview to which I listened as a trapped audience on my way to work. The interviewer described the arthritis specialist in glowing terms, she was clearly impressed.  The specialist stressed that he had done seven years of medical training, then several more years of surgical training, then even more years of training in arthrology. Wow, impressive credentials! He outlined the different types of arthritis and described them in detail. He […]