Health & Wellbeing

Creating the Green Desert

Creating the Green Desert - the changing use of our land...

Helpful tips to avoid the Swine Flu

Besides the addition of BodyGuard supplements to boost your immunity, here are a few useful tips to keep you healthy

Swine Flu and you: Staying Safe & Healthly this winter

Swine Flu and You: Staying Safe & Healthly this winter

Go Fast Energy Drink receives Gold Medal Taste Award

Go Fast Energy Drink chosen as Superior Energy Drink and ranked #1 in taste above another energy drink brands

Arthritis - BodyGuard antioxidants can assist with your battle

Arthritis - BodyGuard antioxidants can assist with your battle against arthritis now!

Why Detox?

Learn how body toxins adversely affect our everyday lives and what a Detox programme can do to reverse the affects.

Role of Vitamins and Antioxidants in a Detox Diet

Learn which vitamins & minerals are the major anti-oxidants and their role in detoxifying your body.

How to Detox Your Body

Learn the easy 10-step plan to detoxifying your body.

Selenium and Brazil Nuts

New Zealand Statistics - Causes of Disease

Research

Antioxidants and free radicals

Free radicals cause disease by breaking down cell membranes and decreasing the body's immune response. Have you ever noticed how an apple will turn brown when its surface is cut? Or how nails rust? This process of ageing, or turning things bad, is known a

Antioxidants and cancer research

One aspect of natural and alternative medicine that has changed dramatically in the last 10 years is the focus on validation of vitamin supplements, antioxidants and other related products. This has been driven by regulatory bodies, health professional

Antioxidants and their health benefits

The Free Radical Theory of Aging was published by Denman Harman in 1956. He theorised that aging is a result of free radical damage of the cells of the body. This is also called oxidative stress. Today, a great deal of experimental evidence

Selenium and the human body

Selenium is a non-metal that is found in the oxygen series and exists in multiple oxidation states (i.e. ­ 2, +4, +6) Within biological systems the element is a constituent of the amino acids that compromise proteins. The element was first studied aro

Antioxidants play a critical role in health maintenance

Overwhelming evidence now indicates that antioxidants play a critical role in wellness, health maintenance, and the prevention of chronic and degenerative diseases. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals - highly reactive chemicals generated during normal

Dr Cliff - Nutrition and disease

The power of nutrition against disease will be the cornerstone of medicine in the 21st century! The initial focus must be on diet and exercise for boosting the body's cancer repelling ability and a preventative approach is essential for long range cancer

Cancer, Vitamin C & Vitamin E

Cancer is the second greatest cause of death in the western world. Cancer occurs when cells start to behave differently, growing, multiplying and spreading e.g. Granulation tissue. The odd revolutionary cell is common occurrence and the body's immune syst

Attack Free Radicals with Vitamin E

Studies on the use of high dose Vitamin E in mice by Spanish and Argentinean researchers (1) confirmed a 40% increase in the lifespan of these animals, attributed to Vitamin E's powerful antioxidant effects. Although the results are not directly transf

Selenium and infant formula

Discussing a study on selenium levels in Christchurch infants, the researchers commented that their plasma levels were lower than that reported for infants in Germany, Finalnd and the USA. Levels in formula-fed infants fell by one-half to one third when m

Selenium levels may be low in Australia

Selenium is a micronutrient which comes to us from the soil via plants - particularly wheat. It's thought to be important for liver, thyroid, heart and immune function and there's also some evidence that selenium supplementation reduces the risk of prosta