Do you have so many commitments that you aren’t sure how you’re going to get them all accomplished? If there’s no time in your schedule for running out of energy or getting sick, look out! Your body will stop you if you don’t stop it first. If you are suffering from fatigue and need an energy make-over keep reading for some healthy energizing tips. (This is the first article in a four-part series.)

If you have ever wondered if you need nutritional health supplements to help you get through the week, spare a thought for comedian John Bishop who, following the example of David Walliams (who swam the length of the River Thames recently), set himself a grueling challenge. John decided to run, cycle and row the 290 [...]

You always hear that you need vitamin C, get enough vitamin C, vitamin C is a cure-all etc. But do you really know much about it, other than the general idea that it is good for you? This vitamin is one of the most important nutrients that humans and animals need to survive. Known also as an ascorbate or ascorbic acid, vitamin C is a vital antioxidant and facilitates enzymatic reactions and collagen synthesis without which people develop scurvy and have difficulty healing wounds and preventing bleeding in capillaries. It strengthens the immune system and helps the body fight of viral and bacterial infections. Let’s take a look at the healing properties of vitamin C in more depth…

Obesity is epidemic in this country for both children and adults. The invention of television, video games, and convenient appliances help to influence us to be sedentary. Obesity can create such problems as Diabetes, Heart Disease, Lung problems and circulation problems…

Our environment is full of free radicals that act on our bodies like rust on iron. Learn about the beneficial effects of antioxidants.

This time of year can be very beautiful with the golds and reds of the trees but it is also the season when we need to be taking our nutritional health supplements to stave off the inevitable colds that seem to be around now. But when we take these nutritional health supplements, what vitamins and [...]

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential to the human body. We don’t get enough of this nutrient in our normal diet. Find out why we should eat more fish.

It all sounds pretty bad, like a nightmare; a nightmare that more and more of us have when we get closer to a certain age. This nightmare is made even worse by seeing all the celebrities looking so good regardless of their age. The ageing process is part of our life.

It is always important to ensure we all have the right nutrition – whether from our diets or from nutritional health supplements – but it is all too easy to forget that one of the most important times to ensure the body is getting the nutrients it needs is when we are growing. One of [...]

Some vitamins do wonderful things for your health. Others don’t do much of anything. And it’s not always obvious which is which. Let’s look at the argument about whether to get natural or synthetic vitamins.