NEW COMPLEMENTARY THERAPISTS' DIRECTORY

Our new complementary therapists' directory is now up and running - including contact details and a brief description of the relevant professional bodies for each therapy.
Click here to go to the directory. If you are interested in advertising your services in the directory please email Laura at laura@foodsmatter.com

ARTICLES, REPORTS AND RECIPES

Allergies

• Safe Sex for Allergic People
  Sarah Merson charts a way through the hazards lying in wait for allergic people trying to practise safe sex
  
• NAET - a year on...
  Last May, nutritional therapist Michaela Rose described the workings of NAET, a new allergy elimination technique which she had been trying on both herself and her patients. (Click here to read the article.) Now, a year on, she brings us up to date.
• Honey help...
  Michelle Berriedale-Johnson finds out how.
• Callum's Story
  Vanessa Gibbons read Mary's story in the April Foods Matter and it brought back so many memories of her own struggles when Callum was a baby that she picked up her pen...

  Chemical Sensitivity

• Breakspear Hospital & Dr Jean Munro
  Michelle Berriedale-Johnson visits the hospital and finds out about Dr Munro's work.
• Free-from medicines - best-keep secret of the NHS
  John Scott tries to put the advice in our Deadly Drugs article into practice - with limited success...
• Chemical-free toothpaste
  John Scott gives his recipe for chemical-free home made toothpaste.
  

  Lactose intolerance

• Lactose Limits
  Professor Anthony Campbell and Dr Stephanie Matthews, who first looked into lactose for Foods Matter in March last year (click here to read the article) delve deeper into lactose intolerance and how to structure a low lactose diet.
  
  ME

• One man's music...
  John Scott describes how the sound sensitivity that so often
  accompanies ME can affect how you listen to music.

  Miscellaneous

• Advice on web browsing
  Michelle Berriedale-Johnson gives some tips on web browsing and John Scott points visitors to some useful sites.
  
  New Recipes

• Asparagus soup with wild garlic
  Wheat, gluten, corn, dairy, soya, nightshade, egg & nut free
  Another very simple soup that allows the flavour of the
  asparagus and the garlic to shine through.
  You can serve the soup warm or at room temperature.
  
  
• Stir-fried Prawns with Alfalfa
  Wheat, gluten, corn, dairy, egg & nut free
  Stir-fries are great for those on restricted diets as you can change the contents more or less at will yet still get a delicious dish. Kenneth Lo, the first of the Chinese restaurateurs to be really successful in the UK, maintained that the base ingredients for all Chinese stir-fried dishes are garlic, chilli and ginger so as long as you include these three feel free to add or subtract anything else.
  Sprouts are excellent in stir-fries because they require very little cooking and retain their flavour and texture well - apart, of course, from being so wonderfully good for you!
  
  
• Chicken with Avocado and Redbush Tea
  Wheat, gluten, corn, nightshade, egg & nut free; can be dairy & soya free
  The redbush tea gives a pleasantly smoky flavour to the sauce - very refreshing.
  
  
• Strawberry Coconut Tart
  Wheat, gluten, dairy & soya free; can be corn and nut free
  Coconut flour does not make good pastry on its own, but we found that the combination of coconut and ground almonds worked well. If you use the coconut oil as well the resulting pastry does have a distinct, though not unpleasant, flavour of coconut although the cream scarcely does.
  You can buy coconut oil in most health food stores; if you want to buy coconut flour you will probably have to buy it on line either from Tiana (www.tiana.eu) or from Tropical Oils Europe (www.tropicaloilseurope.com).
  Both companies can offer a wide range of coconut products - and a selection of recipes telling you how to use them!
  
  
• Summer Fruit Cake
  Wheat free; can be gluten, corn, dairy & nut free
  A very summery fruit cake that we first tried way back in 2003. It was such a success that we thought that it could do with another outing - although in a slightly different guise!