A recent article in Natural News highlighted a number of possibly unanticipated side effects of allergy medication that you should probably know about if you intend to use OTC medications such as anti-histamines. Read the full article here but a few that I was not aware of …
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Nano silver and Ebola – and self repair dental caries
Two random articles I was reading this morning which seemed worth a wider airing: FDA, mainstream media denounce nano silver as 'bogus cure' for Ebola virus. A interesting and quite measured article from Natural News (they are not always measured....) on the possible use of …
Deep sea litter…
Following links from Natural News, I have just read two excellent but scary reports in the Guardian by Jessica Aldred (December 2013 and April 2014) on the horrendous mess we are making of the ocean floor by dumping our 6.4 million (yes, 6.4 million) tonnes of rubbish in the sea …
May induced childbirth increase the risk of autism and ADHD?
The benefits or disadvantages of natural childbirth over induced does not really come within Foodsmatter's remit but I was so shocked by these two studies, highlit by Natural News, that I wanted to give them a wider airing. My first shock was the discovery that around 25% of …
Cat napping
I have always been deeply jealous of those who were able to 'cat-nap'. Just drop of for ten minutes in some unlikely location and wake up refreshed, revived and ready to soldier on with the task in hand. If I do it, I wake up groggy, headachy, grumpy, with a crick in my neck and …