Focus on Health

Synthetic antibiotics can upset the balance in your gut. Use herbal antibiotics such as cloves, ginger, garlic, turmeric, thyme, cinnamon, onion, etc. They inhibit and kill bacteria, viruses and fungi without harming beneficial gut bacteria.

The consumption of snus—a smokeless oral tobacco product that comes in pouches and is placed under the lip—is not a healthy alternative to smoking! It carries a high risk of cancer in the oral and throat areas, heart disease, stroke, or mouth problems such as tooth loss. Pregnant women are more likely to experience premature […] Read on...

Due to its large surface area, healing clay can bind various toxins, bacterial poisons and ammonia, preventing them from entering the bloodstream. It also neutralises excess stomach acid and binds intestinal gases, helping to relieve flatulence and bloating. All of this benefits our intestinal bacteria!

Cigarette butts are toxic plastic waste and do not belong in the environment! Why not collect them and dispose of them correctly in the residual waste or talk to people who throw cigarette butts on the ground? The nicotine content in even a single cigarette butt can be fatal to a small child.

Worldwide, 1.13 billion people consume tobacco products. Half of these people will die prematurely as a result of smoking. In fact, every minute, 13 people worldwide die from the consequences of tobacco consumption! The financial damage to society is enormous: around $2 trillion is spent globally each year on healthcare costs and productivity loss caused […] Read on...

Smoking is stupid! Every smoker knows this perfectly well, because who voluntarily spends thousands of euros or dollars every year just to become ill and die prematurely? The overwhelming majority of nicotine addicts, 80 to 90 percent, would therefore like to get rid of their harmful habit, but only around a third of them actually […] Read on...

World No Tobacco Day, proclaimed by the WHO, takes place on May 31st. Before we deal with partly alarming, partly delightful facts about this, we would like to broaden the focus and look at breathing. As with the heartbeat, the special thing about breathing is that, seen from the outside, it simply “does”, the heart […] Read on...

This planet Earth is “custom made” for us humans; it offers everything we need for our survival and our wellbeing. At least, this is the case for what nature provides for us, for it is especially civilisation – cities, traffic, industry and so on – that causes problems for us, for example in the form […] Read on...

Nearly 85% of New Zealanders are smoke-free. But New Zealand is aiming even higher: The New Zealand Government has set the goal that by 2025 fewer than 5% of New Zealanders will be smokers. To this end, on 9th December 2022, Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall launched a new legislation, Auahi Kore Aotearoa […] Read on...

First of all, the good news: Between 2007 and 2019, the number of adult smokers has declined steadily. However, 1.3 billion people worldwide still use tobacco today (of which 1.1 billion are smokers, with another 200 million turning to other tobacco products). Five companies dominate 80 percent of the market. While they are promoting increasingly […] Read on...