Today's excellent coverage of 'freefrom food' – a fab, in depth investigation on Radio 4's Food Programme (you can 'listen again' or download a podcast here) and a short item on BBC 1's Breakfast this morning – were, on the whole, pretty balanced, but they have caused the usual …
Nutrition
Snow, light, SAD, impending ‘flu – and chicken soup….
Although the snow that is currently 'whiting out' a good deal of the country should, in theory, be bright and full of light, it only really works when the sky is clear and the sun reflecting back the whiteness. For most of this week there has, instead, been a dirty grey blanket …
Could ultrasound be lethal?
A typically excitable headline in Wednesday's Natural News daily posting read 'Bill Gates funds technology to destroy your sperm'... The story was based on a rather less apocolyptic report on January 30th on the BBC News Health pages about research originally started in the …
Depression, darkness, allergy…
Mid January is, notoriously, the time of year when people (well, those in the northern hemisphere anyhow) feel most depressed. I think that last Monday is the peak (or trough) depression day but the whole month is pretty grim. Not surprising really – the weather is cold and grey, …
Thinking outside the box – Coke bottle lights in Manila and self sufficiency in Todmorden
My lovely friend David Fleming, he of Lean Logic, a dictionary for the future and how to survive it, had an unshakable belief that if you just left human beings to sort things out for themselves, they would do so. Two stories that have just come my way bear him out.... So, to …