Junk food linked to smaller brains!

Poor nutrition can damage your hippocampus

Every one of us knows that a good diet is essential for long term health. Yet so many of us believe that we can eat whatever we want, whenever we want, without consequence. Or perhaps, like most smokers, we believe consequences are for the ‘others’ and that we will be fine. We know that junk food leads […]

Death by overcooking – of vegetables and vitamin C

vitamin C

There’s a resurgence of scurvy cases in Sydney. You read it right, and yes, the year is 2016. In this day and age, one wonders how anyone could get a historical disease like scurvy, let alone several cases of it – in Australia! Well, it’s true, and unlike at the time of its discovery 300 years […]

Can a high carb diet lead to depression?

Mental health - the importance of nutrition

I‘m just one of the roughly 2.5% of the population afflicted by bi-polar disorder. I don’t remember my first manic episode, but I do recall my first bout of depression. I was just 14. Of course, I didn’t know I was depressed. Nor did my parents, teachers or anyone else. I was simply a ‘misfit’. […]