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Eggs As Bad As Smoking: Really?
Written by Wellness Club on August 15, 2012 – 1:26 pm -Sensational Headline Says Eating Eggs Is “Almost” As Dangerous As Smoking. So, What’s The Truth? Dr. Myatt answers patient questions – with a forward by Nurse Mark It seems that a Canadian researcher and professor at the University of Western Ontario by the name of Dr. John David Spence is once again enjoying […]
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Diets – What Are They Good For?
Written by Wellness Club on August 15, 2012 – 10:52 am -Why Do We Go To All The Trouble And Effort To “Diet”? Part 2 In A Series By Nurse Mark In our first “Diet” article we saw that: Everyone is on a “diet” of some sort Some “diets” are followed for moral reasons, others for medical reasons. The food intake of our “diet” […]
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Diets – What Is Your Diet?
Written by Wellness Club on August 3, 2012 – 2:18 pm -What’s In A Diet? A Multi-Installment Article By Nurse Mark For that matter, what is a “diet”? The word “diet” comes, via the Old French word diete and Latin word diaeta, from the Greek word díaita which translates to ‘mode of life’. So, in it’s most basic terms, your “diet” is just the […]
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Chemicals That Kill? Or Just Frighten?
Written by Wellness Club on June 28, 2012 – 11:21 am -By Nurse Mark The human organism is a wild and wonderful place – we are a chemical soup of minerals, acids, electrolytes, proteins, and fats. (well, proteins and fats are acids…) This does lead to a whole lot of confusion though, and sometimes outright deception by those who would have us believe that such-and-such […]
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Common Food Ingredient Makes You Stupid?
Written by Wellness Club on June 7, 2012 – 5:54 pm -Sugar Makes You Stupid! At least that’s what we’re seeing in the news lately. What’s the truth? By Nurse Mark Alarming headlines have been screaming “Sugar Makes You Stupid” for the last month or so. Opponents of high fructose corn syrup have gleefully taken up and misrepresented a recent study published […]
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