Breakfast cereals were a terrible invention! Convenient? Yes. Marketing achievement? Sure. “Whole grains” tends to sell well. But dig a little further and you can see why this one meal can derail your attempts to improve your health right out of the gate. The vast majority of breakfast cereals are over 50 per cent sugar. The rest includes highly processed grains and chemical additives. Many of...
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Every woman of a certain age goes through it and every man who loves a woman of a certain age suffers nearly as much! While much maligned and feared in countries like the US and UK, and addressed as if it’s a condition that needs to be treated, elsewhere menopause is celebrated as a normal part of aging and appreciated as a sign of maturity....
Read MoreThe teenage years are arguably the most critical in our development. The habits and attitudes developed during these formative years will be very hard to change in later life. If you don’t teach them, it’ll be mass media driven by big business advertising dollars that will win their hearts.We may think our teenagers aren’t listening to us but actually if a third-party asked a teenager...
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I’m a big car fan! I like fast cars and yes I have to admit I like the type of cars that sound really good accelerating out of a turn and require visiting a gas pump pretty regularly. Even in a season of high gas prices I wouldn’t dream of putting anything less than premium gas in my car as I cherish my car and...
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