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Buckwheat, or kasha as it is known in Russia, can be bought in most healthfood shops. It consists of brown triangular grains, whose strong, earthy flavour is something of an acquired taste. Wash the grains thoroughly under the tap, then cook in twice the quantity of salted water. You can make the taste less powerful by pouring off the first lot of water, after it comes to the boil, and replacing it with the same amount of clean salted water. Simmer for about 15 minutes, or until all the water is absorbed and the grains are soft. … Continue Reading

You should have completed at least a month of Stage 1, before starting Stage 2, and you should still be eating the Stage 1 diet. Continue with all the Stage 1 restrictions during Stage 2. Do not begin if you have any sort of infection, especially diarrhoea.

Before starting Stage 2, look at the Stage 3 diet and think about how you would do it if you had to. One possible outcome of Stage 2 is that you go straight into Stage 3 – you need to be prepared to do this.

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‘There were two epidemics of measles during the decade, and two men had accidents in the harvest field and were taken to hospital; but, for years together, the doctor was only seen there when one of the ancients was dying of old age, or some difficult first confinement baffled the skill of the old woman who, as she said, saw the beginning and end of everybody, There was no cripple or mental defective in the hamlet, and, except for a few months when a poor woman was dying of cancer, no invalid. Though food was rough and … Continue Reading

Giardia was, until recently, thought to be a harmless member of the gut flora, because it was sometimes found in the intestines of apparently healthy people. Only within the last few years have doctors begun to realize that this microbe can cause disease. It is found throughout the world, and about 5-15 per cent of people are infected. In Britain, these are usually people who have travelled abroad, especially to the tropics, which is where Giardia probably originated.

Giardia lives in the gut and produces microscopic hard-walled cysts that pass out of the body with … Continue Reading

‘When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean…’ as Humpty Dumpty declared in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. This sort of verbal anarchy should not be encouraged, but there is so little agreement over terms such as ‘food allergy’, ‘food intolerance’, and ‘food sensitivity’, (not to mention ‘food idiosyncrasy’, ‘false food allergy’, ‘pseudo-food allergy’ and ‘food hypersensitivity’) that anyone writing about this subject is forced to take Humpty Dumpty’s line. There is no option but to select a set of suitable words and state clearly at the outset what is … Continue Reading