As you know, our cats are normally firmly confined to their own pages of this blog, but an article on the Dr Mercola website persuaded me that Mushkin should be allowed out to meet a wider public.... Around a year ago, he was doing a great deal of grooming but because he is …
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‘Sweetening milk with non-nutritive sweeteners without declaring them on the label will make it easier for consumers to identify its overall nutritional value’…
What?....... Well, that, if you can get your head around it, is what the US International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is asking the FDA to let them do. It is, apparently, all part of trying to combat obesity by improving …
The wonders of coconut…
I never thought I would hear myself saying this but – I love coconut... For years I was haunted by the memory of those multi-coloured dessicated coconut fudge sweety things that I was forced to eat at parties as a child – and which brought me very close to disgracing myself by …
Treating childhood cancer in the US is a dangerous business…
The full story of Jim and Donna Navarro's unsuccessful struggle to get their four-year-old son, Thomas' cancer treated by anything other than chemotherapy is now quite well known in the US and is told in a lengthy interview and on a documentary film, both available from the Dr …
Save the world – buy a bidet….
I recently came across a lengthy post on the Dr Mercola (never-use-3-words-if-333-will-do) site extolling the virtues of bidets. Bidets could, according to Dr M's calculations, save 47,000 megawatts of electricity, 693 tons of chlorine, 1.3 billion gallons of water and 41 …