Superfoods are a special category of foods found in nature. By definition they are calorie sparse and nutrient dense meaning they pack a lot of punch for their weight as far as goodness goes. They are superior sources of anti-oxidants and essential nutrients - nutrients we need but cannot make ourselves.

Vitamin and mineral supplementation continues to be a contentious issue amongst health professionals. Learn about the importance of supplementation, wholefood vs synthetic supplements and about how to design your own supplement program.

The world wide debate on the effects of conventional farming practices on soil fertility is getting a lot of attention. And so it should, as many start taking ecologists' warnings more serious and are discovering for themselves that maintenance of soil fertility is critical to the sustainability of our food supply.

In this section you will learn about the importance of Detoxification for Weight Loss and in supporting the body's immune system when suffering from chronic illness.

In this section we have listed the books and authors which have influenced us in creating 'Food Matters'. All of these books we have read (and highlighted, underlined, photocopied and shared) and highly recommend to you.

There are a lot of different types of juicers on the market, with a wide range of designs and an even wider range of prices. This page gives an overview of the pros and cons of the different types of juicers available on the market today, with a list of links to online retailers.

Finding a good natural health care practitioner can often be like looking for a needle in a haystack. This page provides a list of links to holistic practitioner directories for countries around the world.

This Healing Clinics Directory helps you find an holistic healthcare clinic in your local area. In selecting the clinics for inclusion in this list we have tried to find those where the focus is healing orientated as opposed to purely pampering.

Few exercise modalities offer such scope for health improvement as yoga. Yoga exquisitely blends techniques which promote muscle tone, flexibility, proper breathing, mental clarity, stress relief and peace. Whilst yoga was traditionally used as a path to spiritual enlightenment, yoga is valuable to people of all faiths and is practiced more commonly in western society for its physical benefits.

Finding help and connecting with like minded people is an essential part of the healing process. Being able to openly communicate with others and gain knowledge from others experience can be very beneficial.

The internet can be a very helpful and at the same time very frightening place. We here are Food Matters have filtered through much of the fluff that it out there and do our best to provide you with access to solid information. Here are some of the websites that we follow and value.