Over the past several years there has been a growing interest in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation – the 'transplantation' of healthy-bacteria-filled faeces from a well person's gut into the guts of those suffering from a range of inflammatory digestive and bowel conditions whose …
Beware manufacturer ‘freefrom’ lists
Any of you who follow Alexa's YesNoBananas blog will know that the her family is very excited as three year-old Sydney who has a list of life-threatening allergies and intolerances as long as your arm (including, originally, egg, wheat, nuts, sesame, chickpeas, green peas and …
How much sugar do you eat?
Maybe not a lot but, if you are wondering, maybe you should cast your eye over Medical News Today's guideline amounts here. It is all very approximate as they do talk about the amount of sugar in a chocolate chip muffin – what size muffin? what ingredients?.... But it does …
Ingredients lists
In the 'freefrom' retail world, ingredients lists are, so to speak, our bread and butter. By law they are there on every product that comes our way in, hopefully, but not always, in a legible size print, with the major allergens in bold and highlighted in a separate box. We …
Oldies are not the most forgetful….
It's the classic, isn't it – 'I remember their face so well, but I just cannot put a name to it.....' Well, to be honest, I have had name 'apnea' for decades so cannot really attribute it to increasing age – although.... Is it getting worse?..... However I was both amused and …