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Learning to Live with Asperger’s Syndrome: A Real Life Story
Does it make you feel uneasy if someone you are talking to avoids looking at you, direct eye to eye contact? Is that learned behaviour on your part, or instinctive? Most psychologists would say it was...
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Good Health – The Influence of Sitcoms & Drama Series
Good health and its maintenance concerns most of us, although it seems women take the greatest interest. This was graphically highlighted in a recent survey of couples that found men took little or no...
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The Woman with a Worm in her Head
This book is a collection of fascinating true stories of a doctor’s struggle against the terrifying and invisible world of infectious diseases. I can remember at the age of about ten dipping into my...
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Catering for Gluten Free Diet: Tried & Tested Coeliac Recipes
The prospect of having to cook separately for a member of the family can be a daunting experience. However, Sallie Darnell* a professional cook faced up to it when her husband became wheat intolerant...
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Catering for Coeliacs: Orange and Chicken Hot Salad, Orange Drizzle Cake,...
More recipes from Sallie Darnell – delicious cakes designed with coeliacs in mind and an unusual savoury dish – all working with oranges Oranges are full of Vitamin C, other nutrients are vitamin A (as...
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Care Home Fees: How to avoid being wrongly charged
None of us like the thought of our parents becoming frail and needing full-time care. For many families, though, it’s inevitable and it can put immense strain on everyone involved. When Angela...
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A Bad Back is a Painful Thing
Janet ruefully writes about her Back. A bad back. Something a lot of us suffer from. We are all in a search to soothe, relieve, strengthen, our back. The back is our weakest part of our structure and...
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Washing Hands – Hygiene Matters
The importance of hand washing should never be under estimated. I wondered how many people picked up on it following Global Handwashing Day and was interested to see some feedback from the UK public....
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What is it about chilli that polarises opinion?
A quick survey of friends and colleagues showed that more men than women like chilli. Some men were quite adventurous and consumed meat dishes containing large amounts of chilli. We wondered whether...
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The Weight Loss Programme that is Working for Me – 38 lbs Lost So Far!
10 February 2013 I have now dropped 38 lbs since I started my weight loss programme. There have been some periods when my weight has levelled off and it has taken real determination to get it dropping...
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