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Allergies Addressing your child’s environmental allergies? Allergies aren’t always easy to identify. Know if your child is prone to allergies to begin with– it’s a good start. Naturopath and Osteopath Susannah with special interests in functional nutrition answers readers of Small Magazine ‘s question: My husband suffers from environmental allergies so we’re worried about our child developing them, too. What should we look out for?  Susannah Makram, registered Naturopath and Osteopath...Read more  ➜

How to eat for PCOS Concerned with PCOS related weight struggles? Knowing how to eat for PCOS (today) begins with taking a hormone profile. Balancing hormones with nutrition helps with lots of PCOS symptoms. It’s frustrating when you try things without knowing if they’ll work for you. We take healthy weight loss seriously and here we focus on safe, practical solutions for you. Follow @susannahmakram if you haven’t met her...Read more  ➜

Psoriasis Facts Here’s how to treat psoriasis by treating its cause. Natural remedies can work if we start at the root of the problem, there’s no point chugging celery juice if you’ve got a leaky gut. Psoriasis affects 2% – 3% of the UK. Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin condition that causes thickening, redness, scaling. Psoriasis Triggers The causes of psoriasis remain unknown but it can run in families. It can be precipitated by...Read more  ➜

High fat diet cholesterol HIGH FAT DIET – What’s this? HIGH CHOLESTEROL DIET works by lowering intake of dietary fat – true or false? High fat diets like paleo or bullet proof, low carb or Atkins cause cholesterol problems, correct? Not true, entirely. One of the biggest cholesterol myths out there has to do with dietary fat. READ ON AS WE BREAK THIS DOWN…Susannah debunks cholesterol myths. ✗ Trans fats or hydrogenated fats and saturated fats promote abnormal...Read more  ➜

High Cholesterol Cholesterol is bad; lowering cholesterol is good for our health. So, we’re led to believe. Low and high cholesterol levels are perceived to reflect our diet or genes, to one extent or another. Chances are we know at least one person on cholesterol lowering drugs  e.g. lipitor or atorvastatin. Fast Fact: 75% OF PEOPLE who have a HEART ATTACK have NORMAL CHOLESTEROL     75% of people who have...Read more  ➜