They are what they eat (30 Jul 2004)

Founded in 1977, the Hyperactive Children?s Support Group is a charity for hyperactive, allergic and learning-disabled children. Its founder, Sally Bunday was struggling with a small son who was proving unmanageable and turning her family?s life into a nightmare. Receiving no help from anyone, she and her mother set about searching for a solution. They were successful, and the charity became a national institution almost overnight, and I joined a few months later. By the end of five years it had received some 40,000 requests for help from distressed families.
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News summary (30 Jul 2004)
Diet and cancer
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News summary (23 Jul 2004)
Eating disorder in diabetic females
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Prebiotics and their effect in the diet (23 Jul 2004)

Recent years have seen a major increase in knowledge of the gut microflora composition and activities. It is thought that at least 500 different microbial species exist in the colon, the most heavily populated region of the gastrointestinal tract. Around 10-20 genera are likely predominate in numbers, and these include Bacteroides, Lactobacillus, Clostridium, Fusobacterium, Bifidobacterium, Eubacterium, Peptococcus, Peptostreptococcus, Escherichia, Veillonella¹.
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?Sports drinks? ? what are they and for whom? (16 Jul 2004)

The first generation of sports drinks was developed in 1965 after the coach of the University of Florida Gators, an American football team, asked Dr Robert Cade, a renal specialist, whether his players? extreme weight loss (18lbs or more in the course of a game) and their inability to urinate was connected with their poor performances in the second half of games and their frequent hospital admissions! Cade soon realised that the Gators were suffering severe dehydration, and, after discussion with colleagues, his solution was to mix water with salt and some sugar, in amounts that would be tolerated by the exercising gut, and offer it to the flagging players.
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News summary (16 Jul 2004)
China sees effects of prosperity
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Food allergy and intolerance (09 Jul 2004)

Food intolerances which do not produce classic allergic symptoms are controversial in the medical world. Official figures suggest that only 2 per cent of adults, and up to 8 per cent of children, have one of the five medically accepted food allergies or intolerances, but as many as one in three people recognises that he or she cannot eat certain foods without developing problems.
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