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Prescription chaos over medical cannabis

10/04/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

Most people will remember heart rending stories last summer about Alfie Dingley, the seven-year-old who suffered from a rare form of epilepsy that caused him to have up to 150 seizures month. No conventional epilepsy medication worked for Alfie, but his seizures could be …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Conventional Medicine, Food/Health Policy, Medical Cannabis, PoliticsTag: Alfie Dingley, British Paediatric Neurology Association guidance on prescription of medical cannabis, DBPCT for medical cannabis, Emma Appleby, Guidance on prescription of medical cannabis, Hannah Deacon, medical cannabis, medical cannabis for epilepsy, medical cannabis for pain relief, NHS England guidance on prescription of medical cannabis, Professor Michael Barnes, Professor Mike Barnes, Professor Sally Davies and medical cannabis, Royal College of Physicians guidance on the prescription of medical cannabis, Teagan Appleby

In use since 1220, cannabis is not a ‘novel food’….

14/03/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

The imminent publication of the latest volume in our book venture, Professor Mike Barnes' Beginner's Guide to Medical Cannabis, has made us super alert to all of the cannabis 'buzz' that occasionally still manages to push Brexit off the front pages. So we were very happy to see a …

Category: Allergies, Alternative/Complementary Health, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Histamine intolerance, Mental Health, NutritionTag: @HealthJourno, Alex Gazzola, Allergy Catering Manual: How to boost your profits by catering freefrom, Anan del Conte, Beginner'sGuide to Histamine Intolerance, Berrydale Bear and the  Cacao Tree, Berrydale Bear meets Chocosaurus the Dinosaur, Berrydales Books, Comprehensive Guide to Histamine intolerance, Dr Janice Joneja, European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA), Feed your microbiome and improve your gut health, FMT Taymount Clinic, history of cannabis oil, Is CBD cannabis oil a novel food?, Novel Food Commission, Professor Mike Barnes, Professor Mike Barnes' Beginners Guide to Medical Cannabis, Recovery from Chronic Illness with Mind-Body Medicine

Looking to the future

11/01/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  8 Comments

So, following on from all that bracken – where are we taking the FoodsMatter empire? I cannot deny that James' totally unexpected death in August has certainly made me think very carefully about what it is that we have been and should be doing. In purely practical terms, he …

Category: Allergies, Alternative/Complementary Health, Behavioural conditions / autism, Blogging/social media, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, FreeFrom Skincare, Gluten-free, Michelle's garden, RecipesTag: 100 Low Histamine Recipes, 50 Foods Challenge: Feed your microbiome and improve your gut health by Enid Taylor, 8 Step Healing Plan – Recovery from Chronic Illness with Mind-Body Medicine by Micki Rose, Beginner's Guide to Histamine Intolerance, Comprehensive Guide to Histamine intolerance, Dietitian Julia Marriott, Dr. Adam Fox, Foodsmatter site, ForEver FreeFrom, FreeFrom al' Italiana with Anna del Conte, FreeFrom Eating Out Awards, FreeFrom Food Awards, FreeFrom Skincare Awards, Gluten-free Vegan Recipe Book, Nima Gluten sensor, The Beginners'Guide to the Medical use of Cannabis

Berrydales Books – what’s in store….

12/08/2018 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

As many of you may know, over the last two years we have been 'going into publishing'. This was inspired by Alex (Gazzola) telling us how he had just self published a short manual on how not-to-write a book (Writing Your Non-Fiction Book: A Mistakes-Writers-Make guide) and how …

Category: Allergies, Alternative/Complementary Health, Conventional Medicine, Electrosensitivity, Food, Histamine intolerance, Mental Health, RecipesTag: Alex Gazzola, Allergy Catering Manual, Beginner's Guide to Histamine Intolerance, Berrydales Books, Comprehensive Guide to Histamine intolerance, Dr Janice Joneja, Dr Janice Joneja Histamine Intolerance, FoodsMatter website, FreeFrom all'Italiana Primi, FreeFrom Food Awards 10 Year Anniversary book, KDP, Kindle Direct publishing, print on demand publishing, print on demand with Amazon, Writing Your Non-Fiction Book: A Mistakes Writers Make guide

Another casualty of Brexit….

01/08/2018 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

      Long term followers of the FreeFrom Food Awards may remember a company call Inspiral - makers of amazing raw kale chips among other super healthy and delicious vegan goodies. They have been shortlisted many times and were winners in 2012 with …

Category: Allergies, Alternative/Complementary Health, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom FoodTag: Brexit helps close another small business, FreeFrom Food Awards, Inspiral, Inspiral at Camden Lock, Inspiral raw foods, Inspiral shop to close, raw dehydrated foods, raw dehydrated kale

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