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Are you drinking enough water? You will find that by drinking between six-eight glasses per day you can obtain greater benefit from your supplements and herbs, even if the herb is made with the water.

To add flavour combine rice and beans together, turmeric and black pepper, leafy greens and tomatoes, oatmeal and water, green tea with a slice of lemon, avocado and toast, garlic, onion with brown rice and salsa and guacamole.

You will need to be careful with cancer and supplements and avoid certain minerals which may be detrimental in cancer- copper and iron are potentially pre-oxidants, as they may accelerate free radical damage, as opposed to antioxidants, and are angliogenic which may potentially allow tumours to develop new blood vessels.

As grandmaster William Cheung stated: ”There is no pathology, there is only the art of living”. If you want to make a change in your life and become healthier and happier, you need to discover this art - but in the context of the West.

If we consider the promoted, but simplified version of the ‘Healthy Food Pyramid’ mentioned previously, we are supposed to get the bulk of our nutrients from breads and cereals, preferably whole grains.

An ‘energy tightspot’, is where the energy flow has been restricted and is the result of an impulse to express something. The drive of the body is always for expansion, this is what all living things do and as a growing life-force before adulthood, our drive is to experience and learn all we can.

It was the missionaries of Spanish Colonial America who first observed the impact of fever tree had on malaria in local native people and this highlighted the value of plants as medicine to non-indigenous people.

Bread can be the stuff of life, but modern technology has turned our bread, even our whole grain bread into a poison. Grains are laced with pesticides during the growing season and in storage, they are milled at high temperature so that their fatty acids turn rancid.

Anyone on a low carb fat diet who is consuming products labelled ‘sugar free’, ‘diet’ or ‘low carb’ is also at risk as the dangers of artificial sweeteners add to the risk of aging.