I couldn't resist posting this article about aspartame. I know I have bent the ears of anyone who's stood still for more than two minutes in the past, but this is worth repeating.The dangers of aspartame  Aspartame was once considered a miracle alternative to  sugar.  It was discovered by accident in 1965 by a chemist called  James M Schlatter. At ...

Hi folks!Well, what a summer it’s been: blue skies, greattemperatures and healthy, Vitamin D spreading sunshine, contrasting with galeforce winds, torrential rain and the temptation to pop the central heating onfor a couple of hours!Lyn’s mini vegetable garden was almost wiped out during onespate of storms – and each tomato, green bean and courgette is currentlycosting in at around £7.50! ...

We are being bombarded with warnings about cutting down our consumptionof processed food. To help you sort the good from the bad and the ugly, here’s some info and tips. Go ahead – read it – make my day!In western society we are using more andmore processed food because changing habits mean life no longer revolves arounda family kitchen in ...

In answer to an email that is doing the rounds, concerning what Sheryl Crow is purported to have said about drinking water stored in plastic bottles, left in warm temperatures causing breast cancer, I'd like to add my take on that.Plastics have in fact been linked to cancer, especially hormonal cancers like prostate and breast. But as with everything we ...

The story began just three months after my daughter Soraya’s wedding. Her husband Dan had a sudden onset of acute abdominal pain and was rushed to hospital. Surgery revealed that a fast growing cancer had burst into his abdomen. It was devastating news, Soraya was 21 and Dan just 26 years old; the outlook for that Christmas was grim. Although ...

1. Enjoy your food! That’s right, don’t rush it, stand up and eat it or bolt something down when you’re starving. Savour the flavours! Eat slowly, chewing each mouthful at least 10 times to prepare the acids in your stomach for food breakdown. That way your body will extract more nutrients from each meal. Try and identify what the different ...

SOFT DRINKS - More than 80% of manufactured drinks sold in stores and fast food haunts are made from chemicals using artificial colours and flavours to make them acceptable. How crazy to drink something that is so distasteful it has to be dyed and artificially flavoured to be appealing! A potential danger from drinking these drinks is that a chemical ...

• At 68°F (20c) a sedentary adult loses 2.4 (2300ml) quarts of water a day • In hot weather the loss is about 3.5 (3300ml) quarts • With prolonged heavy exercise loss equals 7 quarts (6600ml) When you take a headache tablet, your body is more thankful for the water than the pill. When we take pain killers to relieve ...