Back in June last year I blogged about the scary statistic (quoted by Dr Marilyn Glanville in a presentation at a McCarrison Society conference) that at least 25% of couples trying to have a baby will have difficulty in conceiving. (Dr Glanville went on to outline pre-conceptual …
Nutrition
FreeFrom Food Awards judging in full swing
Kim McGowan, Frank Bordoni and Hulya Erdal in serious discussion. Well, we are through the first week of judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards and it has proved as exciting (in terms of new products) and as interesting (in terms of judges' views) as ever! From a judge's point …
Heavy metal toxicity and behaviour – at last the connection is made!
On this morning's Today programme Sarah Montagu expressed surprise and amazement at George Monbiot's suggestion, in his Guardian blog, that the significant drop in violent crime worldwide over the last 20 years could be down to the banning of lead in petrol and paint. And while a …
More on Seaweed…
When I raved on about Prannie Rhatigan's wonderful seaweed book last month I could only experiment with recipes which used nori, as that was the only seaweed that, thanks to Clearspring, I had in my larder. However, as soon as I had finished I put in an order to SeaVeg in County …
Seaweed – food of the future…
'It is vital that we boost our intake of Omega 3s – eat more fish!' we are urged by nutritionists, deeply concerned at the dramatic imbalance between our intake of pro-inflammatory Omega 6 vegetable-based oils and anti-inflammatory Omega 3 fish oils. (It should be approximately …