With the new year comes a new sense of desperation among campaigners working to amend the Traditional Herbal Medicine Products Directive which comes into force on 30th April this year and which will effectively illegalise hundreds of medicinal herbs used in food supplements and …
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Happy New Year!
I have to admit to having a bit of a problem with New Year's Eve... All that forced bonhomie, those overpriced meals, the endless famous faces flitting on and off 'celeb' shows. All I usually want to do is go to bed with a good book.... So when the fates conspired to leave me …
More on Pizzas
I was delighted to see that in response to my suggestion that we should all harrass Pizza Express to provide gluten-free pizzas, not only had Jeemboh emailed Pizza Express, but they had replied! They make the perfectly valid point that the environment in a Pizza Express …
The power of Thought/Prayer
I actually started this post on Christmas Eve but somehow, preparing for our usual 15-strong, four-day Christmas whirl seems to have taken over... However, still not quite too late... A few week's ago I glanced through Ruth's post on What Allergy? on the power of prayer – …
Are all Grains Evil?
We recently had an email exchange with a father whose five-year-old coeliac son had had a reaction from eating, they believed, some 100% gluten-free porridge oats from a well-known oat company. The child was obviously very sensitive and his parents extremely caring and careful …