Last summer, at the Allergy and FreeFrom Show, I was enthusing with a stand visitor over the wonders of coconut oil, when she somewhat started me by telling my that she also used it to clean her teeth! Well, I fry with it, bake with it, spread it on my toast and use it for …
Alternative/Complementary Health
FMTs (otherwise known as poo) to be treated as a drug
Over the past several years there has been a growing interest in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation – the 'transplantation' of healthy-bacteria-filled faeces from a well person's gut into the guts of those suffering from a range of inflammatory digestive and bowel conditions whose …
Ignoring carbohydrates in diabetic diets
Diabetes is not our area of expertise (we scarcely have enough time to keep abreast of allergy, let alone taking on diabetes) but I do feel very sorry for diabetics. Their lives used to be trying, but simple – they had a strict diet to which they had to adhere and specific (not …
The Allergy and FreeFrom Show 2013 – food and skincare
2013 Allergy and FreeFrom Show? Packed - humming - hectic – and that was at 10.30 in the morning. Come 1.30 – try rammed, jammed and 'don't leave your stand as you will never get back'... To be fair, large buggies swollen to twice their width by hundreds of bulging carrier …
To sunscreen or not to sunscreen….
In the faint hope that summer might actually break upon us at some point and that, therefore, the sunscreen question will be upon us again, I checked in to a post on Dr John Briffa's blog last week about sunscreens. He was, in fact, belabouring the Daily Mail (with some reason) …