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Cinnamon – Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
Cinnamon is one of the oldest known spices. It was used in ancient Egypt as a spice and a medicine and has several references in the Bible. The healing components are oils in the bark of the cinnamon tree, available dried in a quill or ground into a powder. Ceylon...
Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips Ginger
Ginger (root) has been used throughout the world as a therapeutic agent for centuries to treat common colds, fever, to aid digestion, treat stomach upset, diarrhoea, nausea, rheumatic disorders, gastrointestinal complications and dizziness. It part of the same family...
Kick Start Healthy Eating Resolutions – Bridgeford’s Best Bites
The media suggests that Christmas is a happy, peaceful time spent with loving families, though in reality there can be added stresses and strains with excesses of food, alcohol and television as well as limited routine, exercise and healthy food. 1st January brings a...
Rainbow Foods: (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
Grandmother taught the fundamentals to good health: "eat your fruit and vegetables", i.e. a rainbow diet. Dr Ray Vartabedian devised a system assigning nutritional values (www.nutripoints.com) for foods to help you make better choices for maximum benefit. e.g. 2 cups...
Avoiding Winter Colds and Flu: (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
We all seem to be more susceptible to colds and flu in the winter months, yet if our immune systems are working well we should be able to fight the bugs and avoid being ill or at least limit the length and intensity the bug has on us. Both are viral infections so are...
Aloe Vera: (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
Aloe Vera is a species of succulent plant from Africa that is spiky with thick green fleshy leaves and can grow to a metre tall. It has been mentioned as a herbal medicine for about 2000 years though it may have been used for much longer. It is used in Indian medicine...
Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10): (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
A fat-soluble, vitamin-like substance found in blood, organs and membranes. Since its primary function in every cell in the body is in generating energy, the highest concentration is found on the inner membrane of the mitochondria, the power houses inside the cell....
Flax Seeds (Linseed): (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
Flax seeds come in brown and yellow or golden health food varieties. It is a functional food that is low in carbohydrates, high in fibre and rich in omega 3 fatty acids, alpha-linolenic acid, antioxidants, micronutrients and lignans, which are a major class of...
Super Foods in the Daily Diet: (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
cResearch has shown that these foods can have important health benefits. The quantities required for success in some studies is large and would need supplementation rather than food. Several studies have been on animals not humans , though as you probably already have...
Open Sesame : (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
Sesame is one of the oldest oilseed crops, which was domesticated well over 5000 years ago. It is a survivor crop and very drought tolerant. Ancient Babylonian women used a mixture of honey and sesame seeds (halva) to prolong health and beauty. Roman soldiers used it...
Vitamin B3 Studies by Dr. A Hoffer M.D.Ph.D. : (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
The anti-pellagra vitamin was the 3rd water soluble vitamin to be discovered and so named vitamin B3, also known in various forms as niacin, nicotinamide, nicotinic acid. It is made in the body from the amino acid, tryptophan (found in turkey) and should have been...
FOLIC ACID a water-soluble B vitamin: (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
Most of us have probably heard of folic acid as being recommended during pregnancy to prevent Neural Tube Defects (NTDs) like spina bifida. It took over 20 years from initial studies in 1968 by Smithells, a British paediatrician until supplementation was recommended...
Diverticular Disease: (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
Diverticular Disease - Act NOW to Help Prevent it A common digestive disease that affects the large intestine, or colon. It usually affects middle aged and elderly people though can affect any age, particularly with obesity. Diverticular Disease and Diverticulosis A...
Male and Female Hormones: (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
We all have male and female hormones, they just behave differently with different balances at different stages of life in each gender. When the balance is disrupted we experience uncomfortable symptoms like moods swings, spots, pain, loss of libido, impotence and...
Gut Matters -(Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
After Christmas excesses this can be a good time to clean our digestive systems and lighten their load The gut begins as a tube in the embryo, with mouth and anus either end. Buds develop along the tube and develop into the various organs like stomach, liver,...
Stress – (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
Stress is "the non specific response of the body to any demand"; i.e. not a psychological term, but a TOTAL REACTION of a person to all the demands of their environment. Types of Stress: Emotional and/or mental Physical from over work/exercise/ biomechanical strain...
Vitamin D in the news 2011 – (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips November 2011
This sunshine vitamin can be a challenge to keep topped up in UK winters and cloudy summers Below are extracts from news about Vitamin D featured in 2011. "Millions of people may be at risk of ill-health because of low levels of vitamin D" MEDSCAPE 09.06.11 Vitamin D...
Cholesterol – (Aether Bios Clinic) Bridgeford’s Best Bites: Nutrition Tips
Heart-healthy foods found to be significantly better in lowering cholesterol levels than a low fat diet! Many studies have been conducted on the causes and prevention of heart disease. Boston University Framingham Heart Study continues to assess cardiovascular risk...
