Health News

In part two of our superfood series, we look at some more nutrient-loaded superfoods that can improve your health and wellbeing, and which differ in nutritional content from the superfruits covered in Part 1 of the series. These powders, seeds, oils and granules come from all corners of the world and boast a wide variety [...]

New Research Challenges Dietary Status Quo

In the 1950s, the well-known American scientist Ancel Keys made a correlation between dietary cholesterol and heart disease in ‘The Seven Countries’ Study.
This now famous study led to the promotion of a low fat diet as a healthy heart diet, which is taken as a given nowadays. Processed foods were [...]

[May 22, 2009 - New Zealand Herald]
A New Zealand manuka honey producer has offered to test a British “rip-off” of manuka honey for the active ingredient, amid reports consumers are paying £55 ($145.54) a jar for the product.
Cornwall beekeepers have imported manuka plants from New Zealand to produce their own version of medicinal manuka honey.
Kerry [...]