This is not really for us in the UK - but I thought it was such a brilliant idea... A charity, founded in 1877, that organises for children from the deprived inner city areas of New York to go and stay with a family in the country for a one or two week holiday anywhere in the …
Alternative/Complementary Health
Things are Looking up in Europe
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, …
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 …
Herbs, Allotments, Chard and Asparagus
Few people can have failed to be aware of the impending, and now implemented, ban of the sale of hundreds of herbs used by herbalists, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners and Ayurvedic practitioners, amongst many others. A workaround theoretically allows consumers to …
Proposed EU Herbal Regulation Built on a Fallacy
A lengthy article on the Alliance for Natural Health site urging us all to keep up the good fight against the risible (if they were not also so threatening) proposed EU restrictions on the sale of herbal medicines, includes an astonishing piece by Chris Dhaenens of the European …