While prevention is always the most effective method to alleviating any discomfort, here are a few easy tips that may help ease your morning sickness:
1. Beetroot is great for morning sickness. Grate raw (peeled) or lightly steam beetroot and combine with natural yoghurt.
2. Drink strong raspberry leaf tea
3. Drink mild…
Hormonal Imbalances linked to Lifestyle
Your lifestyle is a major player in many aspects of your health, and that includes keeping your hormones balanced.
Hormones are proteins or steroids which are secreted directly into your bloodstream, playing a role in many body functions such as:
• Your body’s metabolism of minerals
• Regulation of fluids
• Reproduction
•…
In the 60s it was suggested that low folate status was one specific risk factor for Neural Tube Defects (NTD) including Spina Bifida. What began with recommendations to supplement with folic acid during pregnancy expanded into mandatory food fortification in many countries, including Australia[i] in the mid to late 1990’s.
Both of these approaches have…