Winter is coming... We visited the medical practice yesterday for some travel inoculations. That was fun, as you can imagine: me, plus three large teenagers, in a small nurse's office, each receiving a variety of jabs in both arms... Anyway, as we were wrapping up (and retrieving one feeling-faint daughter from the floor) the nurse said … [Read more...]
Are You Deficient in Minerals?
Here's a very informative quiz about your mineral intake, provided by Goodness Direct. Take the Quiz It's very revealing - we could probably all do better! How did you score? … [Read more...]
Glad to be coeliac: osteoporosis, the hidden threat
We caught the end of a programme on Radio 4 this afternoon, while driving, which caught my daughter's attention. "Like me!" she said, when the speaker revealed that she'd been diagnosed with coeliac disease. The programme was actually about new treatments for ostoporosis, but - helpfully - the risks of developing osteoporosis as a result of … [Read more...]
