by Alister Bredee | Aug 4, 2019 | Health
The name Pasteur is a household word. Do you know why? He was born in Dole a little town in eastern France nestling up to the Jura hills close to the Swiss border. He is feted as the father of the “Germ Theory” which has become the mainspring of modern Western...
by Alister Bredee | Jul 14, 2019 | Health
Yes, Northern Hemisphere Summer is now with us and everyone?s thoughts begin to turn towards ?Holidays?. Do you remember this one? Many of you won?t as it is from a long time ago, 1963. ?Summer Holiday? starring Cliff Richard....
by Alister Bredee | Jul 7, 2019 | Health
Indeed, Why Coconut Oil? I grew up in Sri Lanka or Ceylon as it was then called. My father managed 3000 acres of tea and rubber in the low country. I grew up with coconuts (cocos Nucifera). Sri Lanka is a significant producer of coconuts on the world stage. The prize...
by Alister Bredee | Jun 29, 2019 | Health
What is Vitamin B12? It’s one of the group of 8 vitamins that make up the B Group. It is a generic term and also goes under the name of Cobalamin. It’s chemically complex as well as water-soluble. A vitamin is a member of a 13 family group which in tiny...
by Alister Bredee | Jun 23, 2019 | Health
Flight, Fight and sometimes Freeze Are stress responses fired off by the amygdala a part of the brain designed to assess danger. OK you are walking about in the jungle, not too far from the cave you call home in the daily task of collecting berries for food. A sudden...
by Alister Bredee | May 28, 2019 | Health
Probiotics are a lot more than simply eating yogurt. Well, live yogurt is a probiotic but the key word is “live”. That means it is without sugar. Sugar will kill the tiny micro-organisms that go to make it live. These particles or probiotics, if you...
