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Anyone on a low carb fat diet who is consuming products labelled ‘sugar free’, ‘diet’ or ‘low carb’ is also at risk as the dangers of artificial sweeteners add to the risk of aging.

Breakfast cereals purchased in health stores are no better than those purchased at the grocery stores. They may not contain sugar or artificial colourings, but these cereals are made by the same process and often in the same factories as the cereals sold at the supermarket.

Home-made soups are so much more healthy, a natural low calorie food, but serve chunky vegetables and if you need to disguise the ingredients, whiz the soup in a food processor. Use homemade chicken and meat broth stock, not packeted variety as the packeted broths contain a lot of salt. A good bowlful will give them enough vegetables and pulses to satisfy their voracious appetite.

We have reached a point in time when these organisms have become dominant and some are impossible to control with known drugs. Many of our schools, universities, factories and hospitals have become breeding grounds for the spread, and it has been suggested that a ‘back to basic’ tactic could be a start towards improving standards in the community and at home.

One of the best and fastest methods I know of to treat a sore throat is to obtain some propolis extract, not the lozenges, and put one to two drops directly on the back of the throat two to three times day.

Armed with the knowledge of the correlation between MSG and obesity, a bill to protect food companies from litigation in the US takes on a whole new meaning. Known as the cheeseburger Bill, the legislation protects the seller of food from civil liability where it may be claimed that an individual’s weight gain was as a consequence of long-term consumption of a certain food.

So okay, I hear some readers wondering, if we don’t feed our infants baby rice, baby cereal, baby porridge, mashed potato, kumara, bread, pasta, noodles, crackers, biscuits, rusks and other starches, then what the heck do we feed a baby instead? That is an easy answer, give them primarily vegetables and fruit, topped up with some protein.

Children and adults with Irlen Syndrome put more energy and effort into the reading process, whether it be the words, numbers or musical notes, because they see the printed page differently from a proficient reader