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In 1996, when Healthy Options magazine published an article reviewing the history of whooping cough disease and the vaccine, which wasn’t working, the medical profession wouldn’t discuss the issue.

This is a personal story about a women’s homebirth experience. Starting from her decision to homebirth and her support team.

There are many questions parents have about yoga for children. Questions like how can yoga benefit children? What specific practices are there to help improve learning abilities and behaviour? How does yoga help children with puberty?

If you are pregnant or have recently brought a bouncing baby into the world, congratulations. In either situation you probably will find yourself in baby shops and the baby aisle at the supermarket, trying to be sensible.

For many years, fat was the public enemy number one, but the Atkins and South Beach diets are blaming obesity on eating too many carbs.

As a general rule you should have at least one, preferably two bowel motions daily and not too far away from your meals either.

There is no way around it, exam time is challenging both mentally and emotionally, however there are things you can do to support yourself. The key is to make conscious choices so that your thoughts, words and actions are aligned with your intentions.

Talking to my mother, who is well into her 90’s, I was surprised to learn that none of her sisters, none of her brothers wives, none of her large extended family and none of her friends or any body she knew in her church ever had trouble getting pregnant.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (commonly called IBS) is a condition that affects the entire gastrointestinal tract. It alters intestinal modality resulting in phases of diarrhoea alternating with constipation and sometimes accompanied by pain. Women are affected three times more often than men, starting from the teenage years onwards.