The long saga of the banning of many traditional herbs by Brussels (see this post, and this post and acres of material on line) has always smelt bad. The pharmaceutical industry have had it all so much their own way that there just had to have been some sort of collusion. Well, …
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Coeliac Awareness Week in Full Swing
Coeliac UK have done a good job this year in really using Coeliac Awareness Week to raise awareness! There has scarcely been a newspaper or magazine that has not carried some sort of coeliac related-article, the Twittersphere has been alive with coeliac tweets and, in our own …
Food Intolerance – or ‘Just’ Anxiety?…
Predictably, Dr Guido Basilisco's assertion that the majority of those who think they are suffering from lactose intolerance are actually suffering 'altered somatization' (they do have the symptoms but they are not caused by the disease) has spawned the usual rash of the 'we keep …
Fashions in Health
I felt, as I read the headline 'Eating less salt does not cut heart risks, study says...' my mother's ghost hovering over me, finger wagging. 'You health nuts,' she accused me, back in the 1990s when the Mediterranean diet had just become all the rage, 'Ten years ago you all …
Getting Rid of Peanut Residue
Excellent post on About.com on how to get rid of peanut residue from the hands and from furniture (soap and water by far the best method). It also points out that rinsing out the mouth does not get rid of peanut residue from the saliva – take care, those who wish to kiss …