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 …
Google: Don’t be Evil – Protect the Net’s Neutrality
Ever heard of net neutrality? Well, it is sort of the founding principle of the web – that every internet user from the most occasional blogger to the largest multinational should have equal access to the internet. It ‘protects the consumer’s right to use any equipment, content, application or service without interference from the network …
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Academic Persecution – the Professor against the Phone Industry
In my brief post about electrosensitivity earlier this month I mentioned that one of the leading figures in research into electromagnetic sensitivity, Dr Olle Johansson who works at the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Sweden, was having difficulty in finding space in which to do his work. In fact, he had just been told that his …
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