My pot of kefir, brewing gently, and my nearly empty jug of 'brewed' kefir A quick search of this blog reveals that I have been posting, on and off, about kefir since 2011 – and that the kefir that I have posted about has always come from Sue Cane, our gluten free beer expert. …
Nutrition
No Top 14 – or 15 – or 16?….
Back in 2017, looking for an exciting new category for the 2017 FreeFrom Food Awards, we took a risk and launched a category for products that contained none of the top 14 food allergens as defined by EU. We expected to get about 5 entries but thought it was worth giving it a …
Concerning statistics – and not about COVID
Two reports came my way this week, neither of which make encouraging reading. The first, specifically about allergy, from the Anaphylaxis Campaign yesterday: figures on hospital admissions taken from the NHS Digital site. These show a rise of 27% in the number of people …
Pandemic panic, 5 G, staying calm – and laughter
I started writing this blog a week ago before going away for a few days. When I got back, panic had set in. The blog's purpose had been to point out the coincidence (or maybe it is not a coincidence) that COVID-19 took hold in Wuhan City which has the highest number of 5G …
Vitamin C for Coronavirus
As many of you may be aware, Orthomolecular Medicine was defined by the great biologist, Linus Pauling, as 'the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body' - in other words, large, often …