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If I told you I ate nearly 5000 calories a day would you believe me? What about if I was eating dessert most nights of the week? Or I ate more than 150g of sugars a day?

To be honest, I wouldn't have believed myself two weeks ago if I told you this!

But it's true.

Recently, I decided to track my...

I'm going to say it - Soy is the worst food in the world.

It's horrible stuff, and yet we consume so much of it.

Forget about sugar, don't worry about cholesterol, soy - and it's countless related products - should be public enemy number one when it comes to health damaging foods.

I'll explain...

It is the most common question I get asked - 'How can I lose weight?'

After 4 years of blogging on all aspects of health and wellness, I realised I haven't written an article on this topic. Sure I have programs to help people achieve this goal, but no concise, simple to follow fat loss article......

There is nothing worse than a bad night's sleep. Waking up feeling groggy, with heavy eyes, a dull headache, and a brain that doesn't seem to work. We have all experienced it at some point in our life - sleep deprivation is horrible.

So what can you do when you have had a night of tossing...

Who would have thought finding a water filter for your home could be such a complex process. Reverse osmosis, distillers, alkaline remintralisers, UV filters... so many filter technologies and every company claims that their product is the best.

In this article we're going to look at how all...

You go out of your way to buy quality food, you avoid using cosmetics laced with chemicals, and you may even purify in your home and office. But what about the water you drink?

Have you thought about where your water is coming from? What may be in it other than hydrogen and oxygen, and most...

I often get asked - why do I spend so much time, energy and money on tracking my body.

Why do I track my body temperature? My heart rate variability? My sleep? My body fat?

Why track all of these things? And why spend so much money on gadgets and apps to help track these things?

Here's my answer...

Do you have a question about red light therapy (RLT), photobiomodulation (PBM) or low-level laser therapy (LLLT)? (They are all the same thing.)

Well, this article is for you. I have spent weeks researching the literature on red light therapy and have created this comprehensive guide to answer...

If it's wintertime, and you're living a long way from the equator - in places such as Finland or Canada or the South Island of New Zealand - you're not exposed to much sun light.

This lack of sunlight impacts our health, wellbeing and mood. So much so that their is a disorder associated with...