Smart meters were heralded by energy suppliers and some environmentalists as a major tool by which we could control our energy consumption and thereby help to reduce greenhouse gases. Each house could monitor its energy consumption room by room, billing would be easier and more …
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Coeliac injustice?
Yesterday we received the following email: I am a coeliac, have been for 31 years. When I was diagnosed the bread was tinned and things have progressed a lot since then. My friend recently became coeliac, and gets a prescription from the same doctors' surgery as I do, but …
Raw milk, the hygiene hypothesis – and medical spin
In one of his recent weekly updates of research links posted on our news and research forums, I found John Scott spluttering with indignation about the ingenious way in which the Vermont Public News had managed to turn a report that children who live on a farm and drink raw milk …
Mobiles banned from the table at posh restaurant!
I am certainly not against mobile phones as such – they have delivered massive benefits to millions of people worldwide but – I am definitely against their indiscriminate, 24/7 use. (And, by the way, I am very keen for all those clever scientists to find a way of transmitting the …
Evidence-Based Medicine: the Orthomolecular view
This article originated with the excellent Orthomolecular News Service (subscribe here) and has been hanging around in my in-box for months as I thought it was so well worth reading but could not really find a home for it on the FoodsMatter sites. So, why not …