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Gut Bacteria for the win
Improve Your Gut BacteriaBacteria are hugely important for your health, however, certain types of bacteria in your intestines may contribute to many diseases. The...
13 Push up variations you can do at home
Push ups are quite tough to get into and quite easy to get bored with but if it is all you got to work...
Everything Thyroid
Sometimes there is a subtle sense of imbalance in the body. It may be a feeling of fatigue that lingers even after a full...
Curb Coronavirus: Build a Strong Immune System
A healthy immune system is essential in fighting off infections. In light of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, people are becoming more...
Hair Loss In Women
Hair
loss in women is just that- when a women experiences unexpected heavy loss of
hair. Generally, 50-100 single hairs are shed per day. Hair shedding...
Weight loss
How to read and understand food labels
Food labels are supposed to help you understand what is in packaged foods. To protect the consumer, there are many regulations which relate to...
Coconut
Due to out of mind out of sight mentality, many forget about foods that are not found in their area. Coconut is usually one...
Fitness & Exercise
Sitting can be fatal
You might have heard by now that sitting is the new smoking.
I agree that this sounds a bit exaggerated. But is it really? Now...
Get Moving for a healthy brain
Your brain is no different than the rest of the muscles in the body- you either use it or lose it! A growing number...
Woman
How Does the Body Use Vitamin A?
Were you told by your parents to eat your carrots so that you can see in the dark? Well, you’d be happy to know...
How to maintain a healthy skin
Your skin is your body’s largest organ. When its healthy, it's layers work hard to protect you. However, when its compromised,the skins ability to...
Beauty, Hair, Nails & Skin
Aging Like a pro
Like the old saying goes “Getting old ain’t for sissies”, it is not easy managing new challenges as they arrive with age, but there...
The effects of not washing your makeup off at night
We’ve all been there - You arrive home exhausted, possibly plonk down on the couch and try to recuperate from the day’s efforts, wolf...
Mental Health
Sugar Addiction
Sugar is found in most foods and is almost impossible to avoid. Emotional or psychological dependence on sugary foods and drinks, known as ‘sugar...
My Breast cancer journey – Indescribable fear to a remarkable recovery
As a former elite/springbok athlete you can just imagine the shock and fear when hearing the words you have cancer. Cancer strikes fear into...
Food
Red meat’s a tasty treat but too much can give you cancer
There are many good reasons to eat red meat, including as a source of protein and iron, but having too much of the stuff...
Vitamin B12 Deficiency. Are you at risk?
Suffering from Crohn’s Disease gave me first-hand experience, regarding the effects of vitamin B12 deficiency.
As a doctor, I should have appreciated the importance of...
Aging Well
Make today your goal
When people take on a long term task, specifically when connected to self improvement or health, we tend to be quite hard on ourselves....
Green Tea
Going green is perhaps one of the wisest moves that you can make. It is packed with antioxidants that help boost the immune system...
Pragnancy & Baby
Does sex induce labour?
Sex. It’s what got you into pregnancy, but is it also the pathway to getting you out?
Around a quarter of all Australian pregnancies are...
Are maternal hormones different when carrying a boy or a girl?
With advances in prenatal testing it’s now possible to find out whether a pregnancy will result in a male or female baby as early...
Men
It’s Not Just Hype – Hypertension is More Serious Than You May Think
Hypertension is an increasingly common term and often appears on the list of bullet points under headings such as ‘lifestyle diseases’. What exactly is...
Shingles – Chickenpox’s Mean Older Brother
If there was ever a disease that could be accused of kicking a man when he’s down, it’s shingles!
The strip of itchy and painful...
HEALTH ANGELS: Causes & Projects *DONATE NOW*
Health Angels Foundation
HELP OUR FOUNDATION HELP MANY MORE
Health Angels Foundation is governed by an independent Board of Directors.
The...
Teddy Bear Foundation
Working
with children & families
Our vision is that children will not be abused anymore, but where
they...
Waste Angels Cleaning the Community
It’s the early hours of the morning and a loaded
trolley of stacked with recycle material...
Little Eden
We believe that no matter how profoundly disabled a person may be, he or she...
Health Angels: Trees for life
Trees have always fascinated people. They are the biggest living things on our planet and one...
