In July 2009 we will be launching a new website - Kitchen Headquarters at: http://www.kitchenheadquarters.org

This is not just your average food site. It contains up to date nutritional advice, menus and recipes, written by experts in the dietry, medical and hospitality professions for today's lifestyles. We have listened to both the physicians and the hollistic medical practioners (many of whom were at least as academically qualified as their pharmacological counterparts) and tried to present an open minded account of dietry nutrition. This is important because mega-million dollar industries have a stake in marketing treatments and will go to extreme lengths to push their viewpoint, often with total disregard for the patient.

Hard to believe? . . . Then look at the tobacco industry who knew at the turn of the century about the effects of smoking and respiratory ailments, conducted literally hundreds of tests to confirm the relationships and hid the evidence. But don't knock them - the governments also had the same evidence but refused to act because they raked in massive excise taxes. Profit has often clouded the waters when it comes to decision making and the health fraternity. Here we look only at the outcome for the patient, not the corporations.

Special emphasis has been given to diabetes and diet because it quickly became apparent that the numbers of type 2 diabetics out there are far more than most people realise and the incidence rates are rapidly rising!

Written specifically for weight control and Diabetes management, this site deals with the conflicting advice of the pharmacological, medical and hollistic medicine professions. We look at the many treatments, why they do or (do not) help the condition.

Find out why diets often don't work, foods you eat that are up 22 times their weight in sugar, sweetners that kill, foods that are sugar inhibitors, sugar stabilisers and actually act the same as insulin. Discover the lies, misconceptions and cover ups behind many popular prescribed drugs, official diets that are so wrong they are a health hazard and the invasion of GM products that effectively killed USA exports.

For the chef in all of us - discover the amazing history of the different spices, their origins, accompaniments and uses. There are also many hidden benefits of some spices as medicines. Many were used by physicians long before drugs became the popular treatment. We seem to have forgotten that most drugs began as herbs and spices.

See how to cook that weird vegetable you saw in the fruit market. During our research we were asked repeatedly for recipes that didn't cost the earth - the sort of recipes Grandma used, before life was freeze dried and came out of a box in the freezer.

As we did our research on nutrition, the same facts kept surfacing:

Over 80% of the products in todays supermarket shelves actually contain little or no nutrition by the time we subtract the negatives, like artificial flavourings, colours, sweetners, aerators, presertives and stabilizers.

Many food additives are very toxic or carcinogenic but are allowed by law, on the assumption that they will be eaten in such tiny amounts.

In September 2009, we will be launching a whole new website (as well as running this one) but that's another story . . .