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Astaxanthin – as•ta•ZAN•thin.
Within the next few years, this word will be as
familiar to you as antioxidant. And, Natural Astaxanthin is a powerful antioxidant.
Read more... (Available from G&G Vitamins)
THE NICOTINE BUSINESS HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER!
Tobacco Companies+Pharmaceuticals=The Nicotine Industry
You could be forgiven for thinking that the forthcoming ban on smoking in public places spells disaster for the nicotine industry. You would be quite wrong: More...
Medivance’s Arctic Sun Therapeutic Temperature Management Device Receives Frost & Sullivan Award.
Product Differentiation Innovation Award for Advancing the European Therapeutic Hypothermia Devices Market. More...
Who’s confused about alternative medicine?
By Robert Verkerk MSc DIC PhD, executive & scientific director, Alliance for Natural
Health (www.anhcampaign.org)
PROFESSOR EDZARD ERNST, the UK’s
first professor of complementary
medicine, gets lots of exposure for his
often overtly negative views on
complementary medicine. He’s become
the media’s favourite resource for a view
on this controversial subject. Yesterday’s
report by Barbara Rowlands in the Daily
Mail (Complementary medicines are
useless and dangerous, says Britain’s
foremost expert, 12 December 2006) is par
for the course. More...
Tennis Ace John Lloyd brings hope to thousands with chronic digestive disorders…
Sitting in his hotel room waiting for his next appearance as a tennis commentator for the BBC, John Lloyd received a telephone call from a health journalist asking if he had any success in his career through taking health supplements. More...
“An extract from How Cancer Saved my life” - by John D. Edwards
In June 1997. I’d been through two operations and numerous consultations and although I was convinced in my heart that I had cancer of my penis, the doctors were not able to commit themselves. The first operation had been the removal and biopsy of the tumour in my left groin, the second was the circumcision that revealed the extent of the disease on the gland. Only after two weeks of extensive tests, the doctors came to the same conclusion as me, which convinced me that I had an important role to play in my own destiny. More...
ONE IN EIGHT DEATHS IN THE UK IS FROM A DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE.
An embarrassing problem people find hard to talk about is Digestive related disease. This can cause people to suffer for many years with constipation, bloating and flatulence or extreme stomach pain in some cases.
Yet despite these problems, life must go on, and without an immediate solution life does go on but often with great suffering. Take the recent example of Tennis Ace John Lloyd, published in the Daily Mail on Tuesday 22nd of August. More...
HAVE YOU HEARD PROBITOICS ARE MAKING UNPRECEDENTED INROADS INTO SCIENTIFIC CIRCLES?
Their overwhelming health and vitality benefits can no longer be ignored, due to voluminous peer reviewed articles published in every respected scientific journal in the world. Health retailers are seeing a resurgence of probiotics gaining acceptance as mainstream health products. More...
GARLIC - THE VAMPIRE SLAYER? OR HEART PROTECTOR.
Through many medical studies, garlic has proven not only to be the valiant protector of a maiden in distress. But, this versatile healing herb can also lower cholesterol, prevent dangerous blood clots, reduce blood pressure, prevent cancer, and protect against bacterial and fungal infections. More...
WIN A 5-YEAR SUPPLY OF A HIGH QUALITY MULTI-VITAMIN AND MINERAL FORMULA
The way we live and work can have a bearing on the condition of our immune systems. Pollutants, chemicals and other factors can destroy cells. The immune system is in a constant battle with these enemies. As with any 'machine', put too high a demand on it and it could 'break', or at the very least, it won't operate at peak efficiency. It is important therefore, to have a healthy lifestyle and good diet, with an adequate supply of vitamins and minerals.
SICK DAYS COST UK ECONOMY 1.7 BILLION PER YEAR.
G&G Vitamins, a nutritional company based in East Grinstead, has commissioned the creation of a FREE nutritional deficiency test. This test, which is available online at WWW.VITTEST.COM, can be used by Human Resources and staff to help determine nutritional deficiencies. The test is quick and easy and comes with free nutritional advice from a trained practitioner.
BLOW AWAY YOUR ACHES AND PAINS WITH A THERAPEUTIC BATH BOMB
you can now turn your bathroom into a stress free environment with a joint-soothing bath. The heat and relaxation of a hot bath can enhance the body's natural ability to absorb nutrients through the pores, combined with the lack of gravity; this can offer some relief from joint pain.
A NATURAL ANSWER FOR FEMININE YEAST INFECTION
If you’re a woman, you know what it’s like to juggle household schedules and your family’s needs. Research suggests an alternative approach to assist busy women with one of their most common health challenges: yeast overgrowth, caused by Candida albicans.
MANY ANTIBIOTICS ARE NO LONGER EFFECTIVE!
Once easily treated diseases have become incurable due to microbe resistance to antibiotics. The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a global alert that the overuse of antibiotics around the globe has left human populations defenceless against deadly strains of disease germs.
STUDY REVEALS STRESS CAN KILL!!
A study* has recently been conducted on both men and women who were looking after their terminally ill partners and living under the stress of constant care giving.
CEREAL KILLER STALKS!!
The ancient grain of barley was once the staple diet of gladiators. But from fuelling their bloodletting activities in the Coliseum this protein rich cereal has, today found another opponent with which to do battle: cholesterol! A study conducted at the University of Upsala in Sweden has found that a new form of barley, Activated Barley™, actually reduces LDL cholesterol in the body.
BLACKMORES ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE EU DISTRIBUTION ARRANGEMENT WITH G&G FOOD SUPPLIES LTD
SYDNEY , AUSTRALIA: Blackmores , Australia’s oldest and most trusted name in natural health, is pleased to announce an exclusive distribution arrangement with UK based G & G Food Supplies Limited
SURVIVING TWO CAESARIANS: A mother’s story of triumph against infection, scars and stretch-marks!
Karolina Weir, mother of two healthy babies, gives an incredible account of her experience with plant-derived collagen cream, and how plant-derived collagen, in the form of Yin Yang’s ZSB6 cream , healed her two caesarean scars and prevented the appearance of stretch marks.
FROM A SMALL CAPSULE OF VITAMIN E TO A GLOBAL REPUTATION...
2005 sees the fortieth anniversary of G & G Food Supplies Ltd, the Sussex based nutritional supplement manufacturer and distributor. Formed in 1965 the company started trading from the home of David Gaiman and his wife Sheila, a qualified pharmacist. Sheila Gaiman, initially a pharmacist at London’s University College Hospital, decided at a very early stage in her career that natural solutions to health problems were preferable to most drugs. She and David started supplying Vitamin E to UK and European mail order customers. At the time this vitamin was in short supply and trade soon grew.
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