I am an avid reader of The Week and particularly addicted to the snippets on page 6 which include 'Poll Watch' – this week devoted to our misconceptions. Mind you, their figures were taken from Ipsos Mori and Telepraph blogs so maybe the latter need to be taken with a little …
Ugly plants have higher pollen counts!
The uglier the plant or flower, the more allergy-inducing its pollens tends to be! What a lovely neat theory being propounded by Dr Robert Valet, assistant professor of Medicine and an allergist at Vanderbilt University – and reported in Science Daily. Although it seems rather …
Guess what! It’s not all in the mind…
'When are they ever going to figure out that things are never “all in your head?” Whenever something doesn’t fit in their tiny little understanding, they belittle the patient and tell them they are crazy. Prescribing SSRIs for everything is not the answer any more than a lobotomy …
The GM debate rages anew – so get involved!
There were some serious ripples of green discontent back in May when all of the major supermarkets declared that it had become too difficult for them to source chickens and eggs that had guaranteeably been fed on non-GM feeds as these foods were now too hard to get – even though …
Fancy ‘Buycott’ing your least favourite foods?
John Scott just alerted me to this piece on the Natural Society site: 'A new free app called ‘Buycott’ allows you to use your Android or iPhone to analyse products and determine if you’re supporting Monsanto’s GMOs, Big Food companies who are damaging your health, or simply …