Over at Curlew Books Sally has started work with Dr Mark Griffiths, an expert on behavioural addictions, on a book on screen addiction, with particular reference to on-screen gambling. As a result I am currently attuned to research on addiction. So, although I was actually …
Environmental Issues
Rethinking the Children’s category
Ever since we launched it in 2013 the Children's category in the FreeFrom Food Awards had been organised for us by nutritional therapist and special diet chef Christine Bailey who many of you will know well. Apart from having three children of her own on restricted diets …
Concerning statistics – and not about COVID
Two reports came my way this week, neither of which make encouraging reading. The first, specifically about allergy, from the Anaphylaxis Campaign yesterday: figures on hospital admissions taken from the NHS Digital site. These show a rise of 27% in the number of people …
Ecological Medicine
Sarah Myhill is not everyone's idea of an average GP. Indeed so far was she from the GMC (General Medical Council)'s idea of an average GP that they tried to 'de-frock' her no less than 12 times. Only to have their attempts foiled by their own lawyers who pointed out that 'all …
Pandemic panic, 5 G, staying calm – and laughter
I started writing this blog a week ago before going away for a few days. When I got back, panic had set in. The blog's purpose had been to point out the coincidence (or maybe it is not a coincidence) that COVID-19 took hold in Wuhan City which has the highest number of 5G …