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Can we do anything to reduce risk of Alzheimer's?
The answer is, yes, and no.  The cause of Alzheimer's really is not known.  Genetics are part of the equation, and over that, you have no control.  If it runs in the family you might have an increased risk.  On the other hand, just because you do, does not mean you will necessarily be a sufferer too.  Getting older increases the risk, and again, you can't do much about that!  There are some things you can do however which might possibly reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's and dementia.  These measures mainly relate to your lifestyle, though something as simple and pleasurable as drinking coffee seems likely to help amongst an array of measures you might take.  It must be said, though, that you can do everything right and you could still be unlucky enough to develop the disease for no particular reason at all.Read More

Harare photographer wins award in Alzheimer’s Disease International contest.
Most of us have at some stage met, or indeed are or have been related to, someone who has Alzeimer's disease, which adversely affects the memory, and causes many difficulties for both sufferers and their loved ones.  Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, a collective name for progressive degenerative brain syndromes which affect memory, thinking, behaviour and emotion.  Not an inevitable part of ageing, dementia affects some people only, but the older we are, the higher the probability. Read More

Health Benefits of Cheese
Cheese contains a high concentration of essential nutrients, in particular high quality protein and calcium, as well as other nutrients such as phosphorus, zinc, vitamin A, riboflavin, and vitamin B12. The composition of milk used and the manufacturing process influence the nutrient content of specific cheeses. For individuals monitoring or reducing fat in their diet, many reduced fat varieties of cheeses are available. Also, individuals can include cheese in a fat reduced diet by making dietary trade-offs, for example, by balancing higher fat foods with lower fat foods. Read More

Yoghurt – Nature’s wonder food
Yoghurt is universally recognised as a healthy food, for various reasons.  Like cheese, it contains all the goodness of milk, but yoghurt has additional benefits.  It contains bacteria which are very beneficial to the health, being required in the gut for healthy digestion and elsewhere in the body also, to limit the growth of candida, and other fungal infections which might otherwise proliferate and make us ill.  It is very easy to digest at any age.

Kefalos, the locally based producer of many wholesome, natural dairy foods, produces a range of plain and flavoured yoghurts, including low fat options, made with live AB cultures which have many health benefits.  Flavours include natural Greek Yoghurt, Vanilla Yoghurt, Strawberry and Berries of the Forest Yoghurt.  Kefalos low fat yoghurts only contain 1.5% percent milk fat.
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Yoghurt’s vast range of health benefits
We get most of our dietary calcium – around 75 percent - from milk and dairy products.  One such dairy product is yoghurt, which has a host of other health benefits over and above its high calcium content. To meet daily recommended calcium requirements for optimal health, three to four servings of dairy foods are needed daily.  One cup of yoghurt equals one serving.
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Kefalos Yoghurt - packed with beneficial AB cultures
Yoghurt is universally recognised as a healthy food, for various reasons.  Like cheese, it contains all the goodness of milk, and has additional benefits.  Milk is turned to yoghurt by adding living cultures of beneficial, harmless bacteria. The cultures of choice for the purpose in commercial yoghurt making these days are called AB cultures.  AB cultures comprise lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium.  These bacteria cause a series of natural reactions which in turn set the milk, so turning into what we call yoghurt, and give it its slightly characteristic acidic flavour.  Yoghurt also tenderises meat and is used in many marinades, especially in delicious recipes from India and Greece.
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The History of Yoghurt
One of the theories regarding the discovery of yoghurt as a delicious food for humans to make and eat, places the discovery around 10 000 BC, during the Neolithic Period, when man first began to keep and milk animals. It is plausible and likely that a clay vessel of milk by chance happened to get warmed up for several hours as it stood in a corner, and turned into what we now call yoghurt. The warm climate of the Middle East, in conjunction with a lack of sterile conditions, would have been an ideal environment for the relevant strains of bacillus to appear and to multiply naturally.
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Build Stronger Bones for Life
It’s never too early or too late to develop lifestyle habits for healthy bones. Three dairy servings a day play an important role in any healthy diet, and to help reduce the risk of osteoporosis.  Osteoporosis is a disease in which bones become weak and more likely to break.  The thickness of bones, developed early in life, along with a healthy diet and physical activity throughout life, helps determine a person’s risk for osteoporosis.
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Dairy Products can assist in getting and staying slim
Are you trying to lose some weight?  So many people are these days.  Our often sedentary lifestyles, with too much time spent slaving over our computers or staring at the TV, and not enough time spent taking a regular brisk walk, over the years can easily pile on some extra kilos.   Before you know where you are, your clothes begin to seem tighter.  Then you may even have to go up a size and buy some new ones.
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Dairy could extend life span
Milk is a good source of calcium and children who eat plenty of dairy foods such as milk and cheese can expect to live longer, a study suggests.  Some 4 374 UK children from a 1930s study have been tracked and traced, over 65 years later, by researchers in Bristol and Queensland.
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Try a low carb diet - keep yourself young and slim
There is today a growing body of opinion that the public has been misled by conventional wisdom in the area of diet.
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Natural unprocessed foods make sense for health
Enjoy that hunk of Kefalos cheese, and don't feel guilty!  More and more evidence is gathering that the less what we eat is tampered with, the better it is for our health, containing only those constituents which our bodies recognise and can process with ease.  Elsewhere in the world, this has become a major issue amongst vigilant consumers who have grown rightly suspicious of the quantities of chemicals added to mass-produced foods to keep them on the shelves longer and make them taste “better”.  Many new allergies have sprung up, particularly amongst children.  Suspicion has grown that as a result of the quantities of pesticides sprayed on foods, as well as hormones and antibiotics routinely given to animals which are later eaten, people are literally getting poisoned by the food they buy from their supermarket shelves.
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Can you beat ageing with change of diet?
American nutritionist Dr Robert Atkins is renowned for turning accepted dietary wisdom on its head. He advocates a diet purported to halt the signs of ageing, extend lifespan up to 12 years and guarantee a healthy old age, and rejects many dietary rules that have held sway for decades.
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Ice Cream on a Diet
Eat some ice cream while you're losing weight - and get healthier in the process. This is the overweight person’s dream. Of course, we are not suggesting that you eat ice cream by the bucketful, or in place of other nutritious food, but the results of eating a sensible portion in our hot summer months may surprise you.
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More reasons to love ice cream
Yes, we all love it – and there’s plenty of it to be bought right now, direct from
The Cheeseman – the delicious, Cortina brand, in a range of divine flavours.
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The health benefits of Yoghurt
Most of our dietary calcium - in fact 75 percent - comes from milk and dairy products. Ninety-nine percent of calcium in our bodies is found in our bones and teeth.
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Natural butter - so much better
Why are we so wary of butter, the natural alternative?  Mostly, from misinformation and propaganda over the past 40 years, about saturated fats and cholesterol – some of it well-intentioned, some of it the sinister result of a long standing conspiracy to dupe the public into opting for refined and processed fats over animal fats, in the mistaken belief these are better for their health.
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The bounty of good old fashioned butter
If you are a doubter about butter’s beneficial effects on your health, it’s high time you leapt into the twenty first century and took on board the facts! It’s amazing how certain myths can survive being smashed to bits by all sorts of sound new data, not just for years, but for several decades. Read More

More good health news about coffee – drink up and enjoy!
Coffee has made headlines again for possibly cutting the risk of type 2 diabetes which has become something of a global epidemic. Further, it seems that the more coffee you drink, the better! We already know that drinking coffee can help prevent Parkinson's disease, colon cancer, gallstones, and kidney stones.
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Love that Cappuccino
Do you love a cappuccino?  Who doesn’t?  This vastly popular version of a cup of coffee has attained world wide popularity since the 1980s and any coffee shop which can’t produce an authentic, quality cappuccino, may as well not claim to be a coffee shop at all!  Today, a modified version of cappuccino is even served by McDonald's fast-food chain.
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Breakthrough in managing mood disorders using fish oils
In Zimbabwe today, you don’t have to lash out on expensive imported fish to increase your fish intake.  Available through the Cheeseman and hence round the entire country, are Claremont Trout products and Lake Harvest Tilapia. 
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Choose a fish dish - protect your heart, brain and health!
Omega 3 fatty acids are the talk of our time currently, as more and more health benefits become associated with them.
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Fresh fruit juice - an easy step to healthy living
How many times were you exhorted in your childhood to eat up your fruit after dinner, that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, that lots of oranges are good when you have a cold or flu, and helps prevent them too, that fruit is full of vitamins, especially vitamin C, or that you need to eat lots of fruit for its fibre content?  How much of all the fuss about fresh fruit is true? 
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Natural foods spell good health says Cheeseman
We are constantly bombarded with information about what to eat and not to eat.  It can become very confusing.  In fact, our health in this crazy, stressful modern world is a cause for major concern for us all and so we read whatever we can lay our hands on.  Yet opinions seem to change constantly, adding to our confusion.  A good example is hormone replacement therapy (HRT).  Widely touted as the saviour of post menopausal women not five years ago, HRT is now rapidly getting the name of the big baddie.  The world’s major magazines and newspapers are today filled with the latest doom about HRT.  Far from protecting women’s health, it has been found to damage it and even to cause cancers.  Sales of HRT are dropping massively, particularly in the USA where every second woman of a certain age popped these pills in all innocence.
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Yoghurt - Nature's health food and meat-tenderiser
Yoghurt is universally recognised as a healthy food, for various reasons. Like cheese, it contains all the goodness of milk, and has additional benefits.  Milk is turned to yoghurt by adding a culture of bacteria, namely Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus. These bacteria set the milk and give it the slightly acidic flavour characteristic of yoghurt.  Yoghurt also tenderises meat and is used in many marinades, especially in delicious recipes from India and Greece. Dips made with yoghurt, fresh crushed garlic, and other natural ingredients are particularly delicious as well as being very good for your health.  High in protein, vitamins, minerals and good bacteria, natural yoghurt is a perfect health food.  Yoghurt, even made from whole milk, is low in fat and high in protein.  Yoghurts labelled "low fat" are made from skimmed milk.
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How can we reduce our risk of developing breast cancer?
A huge amount of research is going on to try to find the causes of breast cancer and to identify effective ways to prevent it. Doctors and scientists cannot always explain why one woman develops breast cancer and another doesn't. Read More