How exciting – you’re pregnant! Pregnancy is an exciting and special time in a woman’s life as she watches the way her body changes and grows to accommodate her unborn baby. There’s never been a better time to look after yourself so you can really sit back and enjoy your pregnancy while making plans to […]
Mushrooms: their power as a superfood
Often classified as a vegetable or a herb, mushrooms are actually a type of edible fungi. Humans have been consuming them for a thousands of years, dating back to Ancient Egypt. In fact the Egyptians called them “the food of immortality”. Medicinal mushroom use is well known in Traditional Chinese Medicine, but did you […]
Medicinal Mushrooms
There are more than 2,000 species of edible mushrooms on the planet, but only a few are known and eaten. Chinese and Asian medicine have been using mushrooms for their medicinal properties for thousands of years and our modern research is just catching up with this long history. Nutrient content of mushrooms The nutritional components […]
7 signs you aren’t getting enough zinc
Zinc is an essential mineral for humans and is present in all your body tissues. Humans cannot manufacture it so we need to obtain if from an exterior source. Marginal deficiency is quite common in the developing world and contributes to impaired physical and neuropsychological development and increased susceptibility to infections, particularly in young children. […]
Finding Balance and Living a Healthy Lifestyle – A Conversation With Lisa Wipfli
Lisa Wipfli is a Mother of two, wife to Wippa (Michael Wipfli) part owner of Nourishing Bubs and our very own Mr Vitamins Ambassador. We caught up with Lisa to find out her best advice to busy women, tips for juggling motherhood while raising kids, dealing with fussy eaters and the importance of making time for […]
Have you heard of nature’s anti-wrinkle treatment? Think of collagen.
There’s been a lot of press about collagen lately – for its joint restoring properties, for gut healing, and how it might benefit the ageing process. But WHAT is collagen, and why is it so important? Without it we would literally be a puddle of human with no structure. It forms the most abundant protein […]
Fish Oil for Cardiovascular Health
The health benefits of fish oil have been the subject of great interest for the past 80 years. These health benefits are due to the omega 3 fatty acids found in fish oil. In 1929 biochemists Evans and Burr discovered the essential fatty acids (EFAs) and classified them as omega 3 and omega 6 based on […]
The Rise of Rickets – A Preventable Disease
Rickets is a childhood disease that causes softening and weakness of bones and so a child’s bones do not develop correctly or strongly. Rickets causes soft, brittle bones, stunted growth and in severe cases skeletal malformations. What causes Rickets? It is usually caused by inadequate levels of vitamin D but also insufficient calcium and phosphorus […]
Can you have too much protein? No Whey!
Protein powder is the most popular and most used supplement within the fitness industry. For a long time, it was preached that whey powder was the best and most effective form you can get, but advances in technology have allowed us to have more forms and research has proven that they work just as effectively. […]
Which B vitamin is right for you?
The family of B vitamins includes B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, folic acid and biotin. While each individual B vitamin has its own distinct health benefits, they all work well together. So, which B vitamin is right for you? Is it just one of them or do you need a combination of them? Vitamin […]
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