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Cannabis 101 – CBD vs THC
Buying Cannabis CBD products is now legal in South Africa, while THC products have to be grown and used personally and can not be...
Vitamin D – Why we Love the Sun
By Dr. Jatin Joshi, Founder of OneSecond Supplements
Vitamin D, ‘the sunshine vitamin’, has certainly gained a lot of attention in the media recently, being...
Toxic Chemicals in your house
The Consumer Law Page lists the Top 12 Hazardous Household Chemicals:
Air Fresheners – Don't let the commercials fool you. Most air fresheners interfere with your ability to...
Kids Hygiene And Creating The Habit
Kids personal hygiene
Good personal hygiene will help your kids stay healthy, ward
off illnesses, and build self-awareness.
Start hygiene instruction at an early age so...
The power of our words
Do we use language or does language use us? This wise question is posed by integrative clinical psychologist Asha Dullabh. She will be featured...
Weight loss
Hypertension in South Africa among the masses
In 2018, scientists from Wits University revealed that approximately 54% of South Africans have hypertension, and this is the highest percentage recorded in Southern...
Smoking or eating marijuana is not a cure for cancer
There’s a modern myth that marijuana (cannabis sativa), in its natural form, is effective at both preventing and treating cancer. This myth has become ever more...
Fitness & Exercise
Skipping for beginners
This is probably one of the most feared forms of cardio. Skipping is well known, outside the school yard, as punishment to the heart,...
Top 10 Male Enhancement Herbs
We all know that Ginkgo is for mental alertness and Echinacea is for immunity strength, but what herbs are best for male sexual performance?...
Woman
Diabetes Mellitus – The Differences Between Type 1 and Type 2
How often have you had a decadent dessert at a restaurant, and jokingly referred to it as “diabetes on a plate?” The thing is,...
Understanding Faulty Immune Responses – Autoimmune Disease Versus CVID (Common-Variable-Immune-Deficiency
Autos, in Greek, encompasses the meaning of “same” or “self” so, aptly, autoimmune disease relates to the unhappy state when one’s own bodily immune...
Beauty, Hair, Nails & Skin
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...
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...
Mental Health
Dealing with Dementia
Dementia is a general term used to describe a wide range of symptoms connected with a life impairing decline in memory and mental function....
Scanxiety! The fear is real!!
Everyone who has experienced the very daunting cancer journey will certainly back me up on the fear of Scanxiety is real! The shock and...
Food
Cinnamon
Cinnamon is a spice that is used for both sweet and savoury foods, and has been used for its medicinal properties for thousands of...
Mood Food
Depression is a mood disorder with a diagnosis that isn’t always as clear-cut as one would hope. Depression is usually described as sadness, hopelessness,...
Aging Well
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...
The Two Dominant Manifestations Of IBS (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) – Crohn’s Disease And Ulcerative-Colitis
Anyone struggling with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) knows the agonising pain and immensely uncomfortable situations there are to cope with. Not to be confused...
Pragnancy & Baby
Can stress during pregnancy harm my baby?
Monique Robinson, University of Western Australia
Most pregnant women are aware of the advice to quit smoking, avoid alcohol, and wholeheartedly fear soft cheese in...
Myth: women forget the pain of childbirth
In an evolutionary sense, memory of pain serves an important purpose. Pain indicates a threat to our safety or our life, and human survival...
Men
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....
Living with Lupus?
Tired? Losing hair? Sore joints? These are just a few of the symptoms associated with lupus. This autoimmune disease has proven tricky to diagnose...
HEALTH ANGELS: Causes & Projects *DONATE NOW*
Teddy Bear Foundation
Working
with children & families
Our vision is that children will not be abused anymore, but where
they are being abused, we want to provide efficient and...
Health Angels Foundation
HELP OUR FOUNDATION HELP MANY MORE
Health Angels Foundation is governed by an independent Board of Directors.
The Foundation is managed by a management team who are...
Waste Angels Cleaning the Community
It’s the early hours of the morning and a loaded
trolley of stacked with recycle material is being loaded on to a trolley by an
angel...
Little Eden
We believe that no matter how profoundly disabled a person may be, he or she is still a whole complete being, with a body;...
Health Angels: Trees for life
Trees have always fascinated people. They are the biggest living things on our planet and one of the most beautiful. Trees appear in many religions...
