I was reading a thread just now on the Foods Matter forums about ME and how ME sufferers can benefit not only from an actual holiday (in an appropriately restful environment) but from taking a 'virtual' holiday or going on 'retreat'. Because ME for so many sufferers is …
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Allergen and Freefrom Labelling
We recently received the following email from a site visitor: I have a son with a severe peanut allergy. We have a nut free home, and we do not buy products which 'may contain traces' of nuts or from factories which handle nuts, for obvious cross contamination reasons. I was …
Ethics in Medicine
Many people may have been shocked by President Obama's recent apology to the Guatemalans for deliberating infecting hundreds of their parents and grandparents' generation in the 1940s with gonorrhea and syphilis so that they could test the efficacy of a new antibiotic, but this …
Are CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs) on their way out?
I know that it is not only ES sufferers who have problems with these horrible light bulbs - they affect people with migraine and epilepsy and give off a flat light which is not good for anyone with poor sight - quite apart from being full of mercury!! So I was delighted to …
Chocolate – and yet more chocolate…
Now that is the kind of Monday morning I like! Three points up in the Ryder Cup (sorry, golf-haters...) and some research which says that not only is dark chocolate good for Alzheimer's and emotional stress - but, if you have a stroke, it may prevent your brain from suffering too …