My Opinion

100% Raw or Not?

by Leisa on December 4, 2007

One subject that is often discussed at Hippocrates – a completely raw, vegan, living foods retreat, is whether 100% raw is the ultimate diet. Now I have trouble sticking to rules of any kind – not that I go deliberately out of my way to break rules, but I do believe that any intelligent, conscious
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Health Freedom Take 2

by Leisa on November 23, 2007

A couple of stories have come across my desk lately, detailing the lengths that the Pharmaceutical / Medical Industry will go to, to enforce medical treatment on the public whether they choose it or not. I think one of the greatest injustices that one can be subjected to is the loss of health freedom and
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This says it better

by Leisa on November 18, 2007

Here is a quote I came across recently, that sums up what I was trying to say in my Blog post “Don’t Be a Food Nag”. “One of the main reasons people get turned off to diets is that the plans are so often cloaked in righteousness. There’s a ‘my way or the highway’ tone
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What milk?

by Leisa on November 15, 2007

I often get asked by people what type of milk they should use in their smoothies or as a milk replacement in their diet.  There are so many choices for people nowadays – the plethora of different types of cow’s milk – as well as goat’s milk, oat milk, rice milk, soy milk, almond milk,
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Health Freedom

by Leisa on November 11, 2007

Just this week a story came through talking about the health freedoms that New Zealander’s currently enjoy, that have been destroyed in other countries. It is no exaggeration that our health freedoms and the availability of vitamins, minerals and herbs in the doses that may be needed for optimal health, are under a serious threat.
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Breast Cancer Prevention?

by Leisa on October 18, 2007

Rather than looking to the medical world for answers on preventing disease, there is some brilliant information coming out on two super nutrients and the role they may play in the prevention of cancer. These two nutrients, one vitamin and one mineral, are commonly found to be low in the general population and both are
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