I have never been that keen on Aspartame (well, on any artificial sweeteners really – what wrong with natural fruit sugars if you need a sweetener?) but I had not thought of it as a cause of Gulf War Syndrome... Natural News is, this morning, trumpeting the evils of all …
Nutrition
Should allergens be banned from a household with an allergic member?
I just came across an article from an recent Sunday Telegraph headlined 'Food fight over allergy ban' which investigated, once again, the extremely knotty problem of whether or not you should allow allergens into a household with an allergic member. There are in fact, two …
Making Chemo treatment more tolerable for cancer sufferers
It is, of course, an excellent thing to raises awareness about breast cancer but while early diagnosis is vitally important, just as important, although not attracting so much attention, is helping those who have been diagnosed to get through their treatment in the healthiest and …
Judging the FFFood Awards – parts 2, 3, 4 & 5!
Well, here I am, three days on, still ploughing through tasting sheets and judges' comments – and realising, especially in the light of some of the comments on my previous blog, that the FreeFrom Food Awards are less of an industry award than a blueprint for how freefrom should …