This is just a mini rave about our friend and colleague, Ruth Holroyd's, excellent allergy blog, What Allergy? I am sure that many of you will already know or follow Ruth – but if you don't, you should! Around 80,000 people do read her blog every month, so if you don't, you are …
The benefits of dedication
Alpro's decision not to combine the manufacture their nut and their soya milks on one line is very good news – not just for those mums of nut- and dairy-allergic children who campaigned so hard to make them change their minds, but for the allergen-free food world in general. (For …
Bravo Alpro! Nut and soya milks to be made on dedicated lines.
Excellent news this morning in a letter from Ann de Jaeger, Alpro's public relations head honcho. 'As part of a major investment programme in our facilities, we will arrange our current production lines to be dedicated to producing rice, soya and oat drinks or almond, hazelnut …
Nano silver and Ebola – and self repair dental caries
Two random articles I was reading this morning which seemed worth a wider airing: FDA, mainstream media denounce nano silver as 'bogus cure' for Ebola virus. A interesting and quite measured article from Natural News (they are not always measured....) on the possible use of …
Gender can matter in mental health
Ever since I reported on the FABResearch food and addiction conference a few weeks ago, I have been listening rather more carefully to reports about mental health. My attention was therefore caught by a piece on the radio a few days ago (no doubt in the wake of Robin Williams' …