How come the food industry is so successful in persuading us - and our kids - to buy sweet, sugary, unhealthy food instead of healthy veg? Easy.... They are tapping in to the fact that our 10,000 year old DNA still believes that when we come across something sweet (ripe …
Nutrition
Professor Michael Crawford on the Key Role played by nutrition in the Mental Health Crisis
NB. This webinar has been rescheduled for Thursday 17th August. In 1972 the then Dr Michael Crawford published evidence that the brain required arachidonic (ARA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) specifically, for its growth, structure and function. ARA derives from Omega 6 fatty …
It’s the environment, stupid…..
In a recent BSACI on line symposium Professor Stephen Holgate called for urgent action to tackle the environmental causes of the global explosion in allergy cases: the loss of biodiversity, pollution, diet and urbanisation. This followed on from his keynote speech at the two day …
FreeFrom Food Awards 2023 – now open for business
The 2023 FreeFrom Food Awards are now open. And if you were wondering - yes, they are opening a bit later than usual this year to allow us to line up our new Easter and Christmas awards with the festivities that they celebrate. So as of this year: 3rd January 2023 Opening …
Worried about Strep A – or flu – or yet another bout of COVID?
If so, Dr Damien Downing in the latest post from Orthomolecular.org thinks you should be feeding yourself, and/or your children, Vitamin C. Plenty of it. And ideally combined with Vitamin D3, magnesium and zinc. This is because orthomolecular medicine believes that if you feed …