With good reason, many people regard the foodsmatter.com offices as a charmed place – an endless supply of delicious freefrom goodies to taste and review – and, for much of the time, that is indeed the case. But we do go through periods of drought… And holiday time has been one of those! Not a …
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Newsletter, blogs and awards…
For those who might be wondering where their Foods Matter newsletter had gone – it is on its way – but the ISP upgrade we were doing last week has involved changing the newsletter programme as well. So although this weekend’s newsletter has indeed gone out, it has failed to circumvent many of your anti-spam …
Are school peanut bans justified?
For those who are interested in this on-going debate, there is an excellent and balanced article by Gwen Smith in Canada’s CBC News – followed by nearly 40 comments which cover almost every aspect of the question. A further posting is to be found on the Eat Nut-Free blog which includes a number of other …
The brighter side…
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. …
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 …