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Anti Ageing Cookware!?!

Want to know how you can prevent ageing while cooking?!?

I'm really excited and it's not often I get excited... especially about a new product. I'm a bit of a sceptic and I really don't like being taken in by a lot of marketing hype.

But, having said all that, the Nikken products have had such an impact on my life that I decided to became a distributor. (Their magnets succeeded where even steroid injections had failed and helped me get rid of my tennis elbow. And the water filtration system even had my cat convinced.)

So, when I first heard about the new Nikken cookware and read the claims and all the marketing bumpf, I contained my excitement and my sensible, sceptical side just kept asking for more and more information (thank you Shirle). Until, finally, I let myself get really excited! It's a technological revolution.

We would all like to slow down the ageing process, it's not just a question of those ghastly wrinkles that seem to appear overnight, it's about the creaking joints and quality of life!

And, by now we've all heard about how great antioxidants like vitamin C and blueberries are and how they can slow down the ageing process which is caused by harmful free radicals. 

Well, LifeWare Technologies have come up with a patented system of cookware that actually prevents the creation of harmful free radicals during the cooking process!

And seeing really is believing. Just take a look at the zucchini pictured below, they were both cooked in identical conditions, at the same temperature, for the same length of time and using the exact same oil:

cooked using the Kenzen Cookware with their patented technolgoy

cooked using traditional cookware

Just like rust, the brown colour is an indicator of free radical damage and ageing! The great news is it also retains more vitamins and tastes better too!

If you want to know more, I'll be writing an article in this month's ezine about preventing ageing, oxidation, antioxidants and the new cookware. Email me on nikken@spanishfitnessbootcamp.com to find out how you can get your hands on this amazing cookware system!

If like me you want the real technical info check out Lifeware Technologies website.

BBC Watchdog's Dirty Allergy Trick

I received one of Patrick Holford's 100% for Health emails this morning and boy was he hopping made. The BBC's Watchdog programme totally misrepresented the slightly differing results of the 2 identical blood samples submitted for the IgG Food Intolerance or York Test.  See below for Patrick's email in full.

I can't say I blame him. He has worked so hard and helped so many people with their allergy problems, that to see the reputation of the York test tarnished in that way is just too much. It is really just a case of extremely shoddy and lazy reporting. That's the problem when you get reporters that are either totally ignorant of the subject or have a vested interest.

I've seen this happen a number of times before. There was that programme on spiritual healing where the doctor / scientist decided to go down the avenue of the 'placebo' effect. They say they want proof that it works, but then when you produce it they just dismiss it, or say they need more. Or else they don't even bother to look for the proof. She could have contacted the Reiki Federation for details of clinical trials. But no, instead of making a programme about spiritual healing she made one about the placebo effect, that we've all known about for ages! It's just poor research.

But we did hope for better from the BBC and Watchdog. I didn't see the programme myself, so if you saw it, let me know what you think. 

BBC Watchdog's Dirty Allergy Trick

More About Qi Gong And Tai Chi

After writing yesterday’s blog it occurred to me that some of you might not have come across Qi Gong before. For a start it has many different spellings which is enough to confuse anyone! Chi Kung, Qigong… then there’s Tai Chi, Taiji, Taijiquan…

So what is it? You may have seen images of China where people on the street are performing beautiful slow movements in unison. You may have seen it in a martial arts film. Well, that’s Tai Chi or Qi Gong.

That's Professor Li, one of the foremost teachers in China. Gill my teacher goes almost every year to study with him.

The fundamentals of Tai Chi and Qi Gong are the same, but the difference according to one of my teachers, is that in Tai Chi each movement has to have a martial arts application.

According to the National Qigong (Chi Kung) Association of America

‘Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system that integrates physical postures, breathing techniques and focused intention.’

This doesn’t even come close to describing the magic that is Qi Gong or Tai Chi…

Housework Reduces Risk Of Breast Cancer!

On GMTV this morning, they were talking about a study just out has shown that housework can reduce your risk of breast cancer!

One could think this was a male conspiracy, but actually its a serious and very comprehensive study of over 200,000 women in 9 European countries for a period of more than 6 years.

The reason for the reference to housework was that the authors noted that housework was one of the 'main sources of activity' for women living in these countries.

Dr Lesley Walker, Cancer Research UK's director of cancer information, said: 'We already know that women who keep a healthy weight are less likely to develop breast cancer.

'This study suggests that being physically active may also help reduce the risk and that something as simple and cheap as doing the housework can help.

On average, the pre-menopausal group doing housework spent 17.7 hours a week on it while the post-menopausal women spent 16.1 hours.

Pre-menopausal women who did housework were around 30% less likely to develop breast cancer than pre-menopausal women who did none.

Meanwhile, post-menopausal women who did housework were around 20% less likely to develop the disease than post-menopausal women who did none.'

The good news is that it doesn't need to be housework, any exercise will do. Phew!!!

And if you want to know how many calories you're burning while you do the housework ...