Just when you think it’s safe to assume the world has moved on from Splenda, Aspartame and other unpronounceable toxic artificial sweeteners available in your local café or supermarket someone comes along from mid- field and blows that theory right out of the water. Given the amount of negative press that has been aired for some time now, you would think that health publications whether online or magazines would be aware of the many dangers of consuming these sachets of chemical missiles. I was flicking through a well-known health magazine recently and saw an article that encouraged women to embrace 

Picture different from outcome There is so much potential within the Mexican cuisine; healing herbs and spices, a variety of colourful fresh ingredients bursting with beneficial phytochemicals, fibre filled beans and protein rich meats.  However, the Americanisation of Mexican cooking has seen this potential warped for the purpose of convenience in urbanized and capitalized societies like our own. Visit your local food court and you’ll find yourself staring down the barrel of guacamole, salsa and two limp iceberg lettuce leaves, and although they might look healthy, they are a mere distraction from the copious amounts of cheese, sour cream, starchy, 

I was going to start these descriptions with Blood Type A, to fit the ABO system of classification, but upon reflection, decided that as Type O provides such a wonderful palette of contrast to paint the picture on, and is the foundation blood type of everyone, they deserve first billing. (Cheers may be heard from the type O’s… we will soon see why). Consider type O blood as being the ground floor of a building and the other blood types as extra floors added on top. Specific sugars attached to our cells like those multi coloured sprinkles on a cup 

So far we’ve discussed these key points: • Our modern lifestyle is about as far from ‘natural’ as we as a species have ever been. • Diabetes, cancer and heart disease have become the great levellers of our lifestyle excesses and ignorant attitudes. • What we ingest is the single most important factor in longevity. • Fad diets don’t work; balance is the key. • Balance, in acid/alkaline terms, is the ratio of acid minerals and alkaline minerals in ourbody. • Commercially prepared foods are usually acid forming. Natural foods are usually alkaline. • It’s not the acid/alkaline nature of