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Our aim is to provide you with the widest, most complete range of natural health services in a friendly, caring and professional environment.

The purpose of this blog is to give all those interested in alternative medicine and natural remedies a forum for exchanging ideas and experiences. You can choose any category offered or you may wish to start a completely new one which you feel to be best suited to your needs in alternative health care. Everyone is welcome to join our discussion in any area of complementary health or you may have a specific question you would like to ask about alternative treatment of myself or any of the other contributors.

Wishing everyone the best of health
John Ballis
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Meditation for Mindfulness

Meditation is a common mind-body strategy. While there are many types, meditation is any activity in which you control your attention. This mind-body technique helps you achieve a “relaxation response,” a term used by Herbert Benson to describe the physical changes tied to a state of relaxation—decreased heart rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure.

There are two general forms of meditation, each with slightly different methods and goals: concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation.

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How to Cleanse and Nourish Your Cells with Fresh Vegetable Juices

by Dr Ben Kim

I’m often asked to name one thing that can be done right away to get healthier. With respect to food choices, the best suggestion I have is to begin drinking freshly pressed vegetable juices. Drinking just one freshly pressed juice each day is a reliable way of infusing your body with a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients that can protect your cells against premature aging and disease.

Almost everyone who has studied nutrition can agree that freshly pressed vegetable juices are highly beneficial to human health. But few people make time to prepare and drink them regularly. Continue reading

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Stress is a Choice

Here’s something that’ll stop and make you think: Did you know that your stress is really your choice?

That’s a liberating concept because if stress is a choice, you can choose not to have it. If you feel like your stress levels are off the charts, watch this new video for a new perspective that can change your life.

Stress is a Choice, provides ten rules that provide an inspired road map to simplify life and to choose less stress.

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The truth about your body’s pH balance

Acid vs. Alkaline

It appears that taking small steps to change your body’s pH will give you more energy, increase mental clarity, improve digestion and stabilise your weight naturally.

Foods are classified as either acidic or alkaline according to their own intrinsic acidity or alkalinity but nutritionists often speak of acid and alkaline forming foods, referring to the overall effect of the food after ingestion. Continue reading

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Gluten-Free Diet: What’s In, What’s Out

A gluten-free diet is a diet that excludes the protein gluten. Gluten is found in grains such as wheat, barley, rye and triticale (a cross between wheat and rye).

A gluten-free diet is used to treat celiac disease or just a food intolerance to gluten, an autoimmune disorder that can appear at any age and is caused by an intolerance to gluten. Gluten causes inflammation in the small intestines of people with celiac disease. Eating a gluten-free diet helps people with celiac disease control their signs and symptoms and prevent complications. Continue reading

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Neck Relaxer – reduce your stress, neck pain, migraine or headache

Will your New Year’s Resolution be to reduce your stress levels?

What about getting rid of those constant niggling headaches?

Get the help you need to reduce your neck pain that causes headaches and stress for yourself or your loved ones.

What better Birthday present could there be?

 Neck Relaxer

The calm of blissful relaxation and relief from pain, ensuring peaceful rest are two guaranteed benefits of a wholistic approach to stress management that uses ancient techniques in a modern way.

 

Wholistic medical centre practitioner, John Ballis*, is the guiding force behind the oddly shaped yet highly effective design of a new self-help product called Neck RelaxerTM. Continue reading

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Stretch Exercises

DESK STRETCHES

 These are stretches to do at your desk.

This program will take 2 – 3 minutes.

 
Prolonged sitting at a desk or computer terminal can cause muscular tension and pain.

  • Taking a few minutes to do a series of stretches can make your whole body feel better.
  • Learn to stretch spontaneously throughout the day whenever you feel tense.
  • Don’t just do seated stretches, but do some standing stretches too. Good for circulation.

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Ginger is an amazing wide spectrum tonic and remedy

Ginger root is more than a zesty culinary spice. It’s both a general tonic and specific medicinal herb. Ginger is actually the rhizome or horizontal “creeping root” of the Zingiber officinale plant, which belongs to the same family as turmeric and cardamom. Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine has used ginger for centuries. Now mainstream medicine uses various ginger extracts for major health problems.

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The Dangers of Artificial Food Colors

The Dangers of Artificial Food Colors

by Neev M. Arnell, Natural News

“Should the FDA be so permissive with chemicals in food, suspect or not, that amount to little more than marketing?” asks The Daily Green. This question is particularly pertinent considering that colorings have not always proven to be harmless.

Citrus Red 2, Red 3, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2 and Green 3, –which include some of the most commonly used artificial food colorings–have all been identified as being, or being contaminated with, potential cancer-causing chemicals, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. And Blue 1, Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 are known to trigger reactions in those with allergies.

History paints an ugly food color portrait

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