Category: Blog
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How to cut Alcohol cravings
After the excesses of the festive holidays, many people’s New Year’s resolution is to reduce their alcohol consumption. We know that alcohol is one of the biggest risk factors for developing conditions such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. It even affects the basic way our brain functions. So what makes us drink it? The reason…
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Egyptian Wives abroad continued…
July 2004 Moving on The next few weeks were a continuation of challenges, one after the other, it felt like a very long nightmare,from the challenge of getting a UK driving liscence (didn’t matter if you have been driving for 20 years in Egypt) to completing my residence paperwork, which entailed taking an exam for the…
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Egyptian wives abroad
This is a blog from the real world of Egyptian wives and mothers living abroad, trying hard to make it in the real world outside Egypt, without the support of maids, drivers, networking, doing it all alone like most western, modern women, who work, cook, clean, bring up children…etc… May 2004 The day I decided…
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“All disease begins in the gut” – Hippocrates
Medicine is definitely an Art, its a science but its also an Art that comes with experience. Nutrition is not a perfect science. Nobody holds the universal truth in this field. Keep researching until you find your answers. Recent research doesn’t necessarily mean better research, keep investigating. ‘Said a wise man’
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Visit to Zimbabwe
Truly one of the highlights of my life, was visiting the beautiful African country of Zimbabwe, with such kind, lovely people, walking with Rhinos at dawn was particularly invigorating for me. Whenever I visit a new country, I’m usually intrigued about their staple diet, and how it impacts their health, in this case Zimbabweans eat…
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Tomatoes and Bone Health
Who knew tomatoes were a great support for bone health!! with its rich supply of antioxidant & lycopene, in a recent study tomatoes were removed from a menopausal group of women’s diet for a few weeks, at the end of the trial, these women started to show increased signs of oxidative stress in their bones…
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Apple Cider Vinegar
This is my miracle vinegar, I use bottles and bottles of it all the time, I use it to clean non-organic fruit and vegetables, as a drink, to add some digestive acid to my stomach ‘lets face it, I’m not 25 anymore’ right!! and as we age, our stomach acid naturally decline, I even wash my…
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The day I decided to blog
I choose this post to be my first, as apples generally are a powerhouse of Nutrients, you know the old saying, yes you do. “An Apple a day’ No I’m not old, its the saying thats old. :(
Naturopathy 