Foods Matter has been off air for the last few days doing all that technical work that websites always do on bank holiday weekends – including both tidying up our forums and adding to our cartoon collection! Regular site visitors will know Christopher White’s lovely whimsical cartoons – new comers have a treat in store. …
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Joined up government – oh yeah – and hyperactivity!
Joined up government – wasn’t that the mantra a couple of years ago? Well… Only this week we reported that the Food Standards Agency had updated its lists of manufacturers who did not use the artificial colours that research has shown to affect both hyperactive and even normal children. (See the Lancet – and here …
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The alternative, but not always popular, approach…
John Scott, regular contributor to Foods Matter and ‘worm’ enthusiast, has just alerted me to two interesting efforts to rubbish or generally sideline alternative approaches to health and illness. One can only assume that they are made by conventional medicine practitioners/supporters who find alternative approaches unacceptable or, dare one suggest, fear that they may not …
Weird disorders – or are they?
A recent article in the New York Times described the rare, but worrying ‘sleep eating disorder’ – when you not only sleep walk but sleep eat, raiding the fridge or freezer for anything it contains. And you can do it up to five times in a night! Like sleep walking, sleep eating is not thought …
Life is never simple
Life is never simple, is it? Just this morning I was reading about the new ‘intelligent’ pills which contain a microchip that will react with the acid in your stomach and send a message to your mobile phone reminding you to take another pill. This may sound loopy but it could have huge health benefits. …
FreeFrom Baking Convert!
I have always hated baking! Even before I got involved in freefrom food and food allergy I hated baking. Foodie friends would witter on about the delights of plunging elbow deep into heaving bowls of dough, the smell of yeast, the satisfaction of a loaf well baked… I just couldn’t see it. And since I …