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I remember years ago when I was in my early teens, the birthing of the ‘fat-free diet’s’. Back then I had no idea why but I just knew that there was something very dangerous about the idea of aiming to eliminate fat from your diet. As I mentioned in my previous post, excess saturated...

Now I don’t want anyone to think for one second that I think the world is full of harmful foods just waiting to damage our health and ruin our chances of enjoying a good and varied diet but there are a few other ‘badies’ out there to beware of, so let’s get the major...

My obsession with sugar continues – this time with  sweeteners. BEWARE… these are SERIOUSLY bad for your health! Aspartame, Nutra Sweet, Canderel etc. are a contributing factor for many ‘conditions’ and diseases, there is a swell of evidence to support this. They cause deterioration of the neurons in the brain, the blood sugar levels...

Having given sugar a hard time, there are occasions when we do want to sweeten something and there are some natural alternatives that actually have some redeeming features. Xylitol is a natural sweetener (granular form), one of it’s beneifits ironically helps prevent cavities in the teeth (unlike refined sugar). Agarva syrup is another plant based...

Eliminate or cut back as much as you can on white refined SUGAR in you diet. Nutritionist Mark Hyman and others I have listened to call this substance ‘White Poison’ or  ‘White Death’. There are no redeeming features to refined sugar, not one single reason for ingesting it (other than you like the sweet...