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So many diets recommend you cut back or eliminate your carbohydrates in order to lose weight. They are correct - eliminating carbohydrates from your diet can make you weak, dehydrated ...and thin.

Q - I do hope you are able to offer some advice. My mother has Waldenstrom's disease, an overproduction of immunoglobulin M, which thickens the blood and is documented as a fatal disease. I would like your help please. Carol, Dunedin.

Wine is good for the heart – we are all told, but how healthy is wine really?

Dear Healthy Options, Thank you for publishing, ‘The Goodness of Castor OIl.’ Historically called, Palma Christi (Palm of Christ) was the name given during the Middle Ages to the common castor oil plant. (Virginia Beach: ARE Press, 1967).

I was a smoker. I still clearly remember the first time that l inhaled and experienced that'buzz' as the nicotine reached my brain.

There has been a great deal of interest around the aspects of auras and energy fields? Whilst, we are tempted to relegate those who espouse to see auras to the “fringe”, can we honestly say we have given the subject serious attention.

This is a term commonly linked to children who are incapable of concentrating, especially at school. Hence the name Attention deficit Disorder.

It’s not uncommon for many individuals to celebrate just a little too much over holiday periods, birthday celebrations, or even when on vacation.

Pharmaceutical company’s contract and pay ‘ghost writers’ to put their researcher’s names on scientific articles.