Spurred on by our recent burst of unseasonally summer weather – and an email from from Laura Antebi who is coming to stay while she exhibits her wonderful horses, my mind has turned once more the Chelsea Flower Show. Every year I set off on press day with my good friend Anne …
Hayfever/inhaled allergies
Mill your own g-f flour, green smoothies for acne and shaving off your moustache to improve your hay fever….
Apologies for today's furious flurry of blogs! It is just that between website refurbishment and 'failing to connect with our database' we seem to have been either off air or too-busy-to-blog for weeks. So this is catch up Friday – and I will squeeze my last three bookmarked …
Invisible allergens
When you are diagnosed with a dairy or wheat allergy/intolerance, or when your tests come back positive for coeliac disease, your first reaction is to panic! Everything that you normally eat now seems to be off the menu – how are you going to survive? What will you eat? Will you …
Maybe that red wine was not such a good idea… Allergy prevention tips
I knew it was too good to be true.... There is a down side to all those great benefits I was going on about a few weeks ago.... (See 'The health giving properties of red wine...') In a useful post in Today Health, Danish researchers are reported to have found that the risk of …
Chelsea Flower Show – glorious but – no allergen-free garden…
Any of you who are gardeners will no doubt turn verdant green with envy when you hear that rather than battling with hordes of RHS members and peering over twenty of their backs to catch a glimpse of one corner of a show garden, I spent yesterday wandering in comfort around …