Those who believe that mental health problems exist only in the brain of the sufferer should check out a useful post on Dr John Briffa’s blog suggesting that many apparent instances of mental health problems are actually caused by physiological or nutitional problems. They should also read the excellent article in the Wall Street Journal that he refers to. …
Fresh Air Fund – helping New York’s inner city children
You may remember that a couple of months ago I posted about the Fresh Air Fund charity that arranges holidays for inner city New York children from low-income families out in the country with host families. For any US readers of this blog – I have jsut had an update from the Fresh Air Fund …
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Coded out……
Apologies for the recent blog dearth – which might just continue a bit longer… The whole FoodsMatter family of websites is undergoing a major facelift which, given their size, is a rather massive operation. Although our foods sites are resting on a temporary and relatively comfortable ledge at the moment, and the new coeliacsmatter site …
LEAN LOGIC. A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive it
(David Fleming, environmentalist, author, founding member of the Green Party, early chair of the Soil Association, died, totally unexpectedly on 28th November 2010. For more see this post and this blog. Lean Logic, on which he had been working for the last 10 years, was published on 7th July 2011. See www.leanlogic.net ) How to give …
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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 thousand trees each day in the US alone… Because that is, apparently, what is …
A meditation on seizing the moment
‘A meditation on light, energy, the collapse of time and the fabric of the entire universe – and our extraordinary and ambitious methods of survival within it’ – on Sizewell beach with the Exaudi vocal ensemble in Ligeti’s Lux aeterna……. Every year I mean to go to the Aldeburgh Festival and, every year, by the …