Some weeks ago I got an email from Pat Schooling, director of the allergy charity, Action Against Allergy, of which I am a trustee, asking whether I had ever heard of raw onions being used to guard against flu? As it happened, I had – well, I had heard (and even experimented) …
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Lead contamination in lipstick
Being a 'foody' person, when we first started the FreeFrom Skincare Awards I found myself wondering whether there really was a need for such an award. It did not take long for me to realise the error of my ways. Just drawing up the criteria for what would be acceptable in …
Could ultrasound be lethal?
A typically excitable headline in Wednesday's Natural News daily posting read 'Bill Gates funds technology to destroy your sperm'... The story was based on a rather less apocolyptic report on January 30th on the BBC News Health pages about research originally started in the …
The Raw Milk Debate – ‘US Citizens Do Not Have a Fundamental Right to Produce and Consume Foods of Their Choice’
America is an amazing place.... I have just been catching up with some Natural News posts and found a link to the Wisconsin case in which the Zinniker family farm and cow share is attempting to establish its right to produce raw milk for its members. (To get round the prohibition …
Ethics in vaccination – and child protection
A child is severely injured in a car accident and only a blood transfusion will save its life. But its parents are Jehovah's witnesses and passionately oppose blood transfusions. What is the doctor to do? This old dilemma has surfaced again but this time in the much disputed area …