Very soon we will be announcing the 2015 Freefrom Food Awards (entry opens in mid September) and our new charity for 2014, FoodCycle. FoodCycle asked us to write a blog for their site about why we had chosen them as our charity for 2015 - and I have just realised that it should …
Environmental Issues
The battle of the supermarkets – again…
This morning Derby City Council was reported as calling for a tax of up to £400 million to be imposed on the larger supermarkets, the money to be spent on regenerating the town centres which have suffered so badly as a result of supermarket expansion. Such a scheme, known as the …
Pomegranates, blueberries, Japanese wine berries and bees – in King’s Cross…
These days, King's Cross is awash in vertical flower walls, canal side walkways and gushing fountains but across the railway tracks in the industrial park, nature is in a better established, more productive mode. Way back in 1985, when King's Cross was seedy backwater inhabited …
Roundup and autism – is there a link?
Simple explanations for complex problems are always very tempting but they rarely prove to be the answer. This is especially true in our modern medical world where diverse, debilitating and ever more common conditions such as allergy, coeliac disease, Parkinsons, MS, ME and …
It’s mitochondria, not hypochondria – Dr Sarah Myhill on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
I have always had huge admiration for the members of the British Society of Ecological Medicine – a group of medics most of whom started off as GPs or consultants, but who became disillusioned with medicine as it is commonly practised in the west. In their search for a better way …