About six months ago I happened to hear two eminent medical professors, on the same day, extolling the virtues of a virtually limitless consumption of dark chocolate and coffee for those in their later years but warning against the over consumption of alcohol, even that …
Alcohol
Campaigners Lindiwe Lewis and Daniel Kelly talk about living with allergies
Cressida has just published this excellent interview she did with Lindiwe Lewis and Daniel Kelly on her Linked in page. I thought it needed a wider airing. Understanding allergy from the inside out is so important, so Lindi's and Dan's comments are massively helpful. How do …
Understanding the nature of trauma
A couple of weeks ago the Guild of Health Writers ran an excellent evening session on PTSD – understanding the nature of the trauma that can provoke Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The four speakers included Noel McDermott, a psychotherapist who lived through many years of …
Bootleg liquor accounts for nearly quarter of all alcohol consumed globally….
And by bootleg, I mean alcohol which is made from, or at least contains, mosquito repellent, cough medicine, battery acid, mortuary formaldehyde and methanol among many other dubious, toxic and often lethal substances. How did I know about it? Well, I could just have found out by …
Random thoughts on freefrom and millennials
The annual FDIN FreeFrom seminar took place last week, focusing very much on the future both in terms of those millennial and Generation Z shoppers and the export markets that we believe should be in the sights of all freefrom manufacturers. All the presentations (which were …