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Humans have evolved over a period of approximately 4 million years. For the vast majority of that time, our ancestors ate a combination of raw and living foods. It is only relatively recently (in the last 250,000 years, in fact) that humans began to cook their food. What are living foods? Living foods are whole foods from nature (such as fruit, vegetables, sprouted grains, nuts and seeds), which have all the vitamins, minerals, phyto-nutrients and enzymes that processing, storing, transporting and cooking can alter or destroy. As such, they tend to be nutrient-dense and contain all of the vitality and...

It is a scary fact that, by the age of 60, 9 in every 10 people suffer with some form of arthritis – a common condition that causes pain and inflammation in joints. According to NHS Choices, around 10 million people have arthritis in the UK alone. However, this condition needn’t be an inevitable part of growing older. In fact, according to the renowned specialist in the treatment of arthritis, Dr. Robert Bingham, “no person who is in good nutritional health develops rheumatoid or osteoarthritis”. In the search for a definitive cause of arthritis, many factors have been considered; including...

What is leaky gut syndrome? If you suffer with chronically bad digestion (whether as a result of poor diet, a food intolerance or allergy, bowel disorder or other cause), the lining of your intestines can become irritated over time. The lining of a healthy small intestine allows just the nutrients we have digested from food to be absorbed. However, where there is irritation and inflammation, large spaces can develop between the cells of the gut wall making it more porous than it should be. Bacteria, toxins, partially digested food particles, fungi and metals can then begin to leak through too....