– Letter from Marilyn

– In the News:

• Work related stress and long hours can bring an earlier menopause
• The dangers of eating grapefruit
• Yo-Yo dieting can increase risk of kidney disease

– Quick Tip: Folic acid reduces your risk of stroke

– This month’s nutritional spotlight: Bananas

– Quick Tip: slow down when you eat to lose weight

– Small Changes: Big Weight Loss

– Osteoporosis: How vitamin K can keep your bones strong

– Aromatherapy: the sweet way to boost your fertility

– Get cracking: The health benefits of nuts

– Ten years younger: How to beat common wrinkle accelerators

– Healthy Words: Real Health

– The True Power of Good Nutrition – Case Study September 2007

– Black Cohosh and menopause: your questions answered

– Coping with empty nest syndrome without reaching for the biscuit tin

– Quick Tip: Don’t hit the snooze button

– Natural fixes for perimenopausal menstrual irregularities

– How safe is the water you drink? Tap vs. bottled.

– Quick Tip: Help for ulcers

– Some non chemical bathroom products

– Quick Tip: Friendship is better than money

– Quick Tip: Another reason not to Yo-Yo diet

– Ask Marilyn:

• Star Question: Lack of libido?
• Cutting back on salt?
• Are we trying too hard to get pregnant?
• Complementary therapies and IVF?

– Ingredient Spotlight: Agar

– Monthly Meal Idea: Fruit jelly

– Coming Next Month

Look out for more answers from Marilyn, the latest news, case studies from the Clinic, Monthly Meal Ideas and also:

• The safe use of cookware
• Stopping the Silent Killer: Natural ways to lower your blood pressure
• How a vitamin B12 deficiency increases the risk of osteoporosis
• The top five foods for a healthy digestive system
• 20 ways to boost your fertility
• How to eat: Back to the basics of sensible eating
• Menopause: reducing your risk of heart disease
• Your kitchen pharmacy: soothing the fires – natural ways to treat a sore throat
• Grocery cart makeover: Ten healthy grocery shopping tips

And, as always, much, much more …

Dear Reader,As usual this issue of Natural News is packed with useful and I hope practical information because I always feel that it is good to have tools that you can use in every day life. This issue covers anti-ageing remedies, we can’t stop the clock but it feels good to be able to at least slow it down. There is information on water, because although we are all recommended to drink six to eight glasses of water a day, the quality of the water we drink can make a big difference. All bottled water is not the same and as with food, you need to read the labels because you can literally just be drinking filtered tap water.

It is always lovely to use aromatherapy oils in the bath, for a massage and as a wonderful aroma for the house. So there are suggestions in this issue for different oils to help with de-stressing and those that could actually help with fertility.

I think it is interesting to experiment with different foods because sometimes we can get stuck using the same limited range all the time. Sometimes it is because we don’t know what to do with some ingredients that we avoid using them. In this issue of Natural News I have included a recipe using agar, a seaweed from Japan, used as a gelling agent and very versatile and a good alternative to animal gelatine. It can be used in savoury food like an aspic but the recipe in this issue is for a fruit jelly.

Wishing you good health.

Kind regards,

Marilyn Glenville