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I’ve been eating a low fat, wholefood, high raw, plant based diet for a while now and I thought I was over food cravings but the last couple of weeks I’ve had them big time.

I used to get cravings a lot. As a teenager and young adult, I was always on some fad diet or other that would require me to restrict my food intake. And after a while, I’d cave in and binge eat everything I shouldnR...

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”

—Zen proverb

During the holidays I've been meditating on the thought that it’s not easy to be quiet, or be in quiet, these days. Unless you live in a monastery, it’s practically a lost art. We all know it’s good for us. At some point, we’ve all heard someone say “It’s so loud ...

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Hi. This is Cath King from Seeking Health and today I’d like to talk to you about how to eat more to weigh less. I know it sounds like a contradiction but I promise you it’s not. This prese...

What exactly are the benefits of receiving massage or bodywork treatments? Massage is useful for all of the conditions listed below and more, massage can:

• Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion.

• Ease medication dependence.

• Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body's natural defence system.

• Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.

With the summer months upon us, the call of the great outdoors is hard to ignore. And because life can make things complicated enough, you need to know that with just a few basic organic products to hand you can be ready to go whenever you get the chance.

Do you want to take the drama out of those inevitable summer mishaps?

To me, the true art of really enjoying the summer months lies not in over-plann...

Holistic Health consulting is a relatively new profession, but the idea behind it is really rooted in how we, as human beings, operate. As a health consultant, I help you work with your unique body, and take into consideration how everything in your life affects your health and wellness.

At the first glance, you may think what a health consultant does is not much different from a conventional nutrition...

Gout is the most common form of arthritis in men over the age of 40. The disease is characterized by recurring episodes of extremely painful joint inflammation, caused by monosodium urate crystal deposits.

Gout has markedly increased over the past few decades in parallel to the rise in obesity. In fact, more than 60% of individuals with gout have or later develop metabolic syndrome. Elevated uric acid levels, a p...

Winter’s here. The more raw plant foods you eat, and the more probiotic-foods you incorporate into your diet, the more your body becomes inhospitable to viruses and infections.

Peppermint is one of the oldest — and most highly regarded — herbs, and has been an integral part of herbal medicine for thousands of years. It has a very wide range of uses, from soothing digestion to improving concentration and mental accuracy.

Pure, therapeutic-grade peppermint oil is timeless in its uses, and has many yet-to-be-discovered benefits.

Medicinally, peppermint c...

Is Our Ocean Life in Danger of Extinction?

A staggering 100,000 tonnes of fish oil are now consumed from our oceans, of that over 51,000 tonnes are used for food supplements, says a new report. The study led by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) concluded “We now face losi...