Unlike me, my dad is not a fan of sandwiches.  He is a meat and veg man, which may possibly be the reason he has just had a particularly severe case of food poisoning.  On a recent trip out, my dad, my mum and I all had a meal of duck, new potatoes and salad.  None of us were impressed the taste, but as we had never tried it before, we weren’t really sure what duck should have tasted like.

Neither my mum nor I, ate our entire portion of foul, although my mum said it tasted okay covered it brown sauce.  My dad, however, persevered and ate all of his. Having lived through the war years he still has the mentality of “Waste Not, Want Not”, but I think that’s about to change.

He began to feel slightly ill the following day but after three days of sickness and diarrhoea he was admitted to an isolation ward at our local hospital.  He nearly died. (Read the rest of this post)

I had mercury poisoning.  I know what caused it - my teeth.

When my poor immune system took a battering , I developed lots of strange and worrying symptoms.

However, there are many people who suffer symptoms, which the medical profession label as specific diseases but have no idea why they became ill. It’s worrying.

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My friend was complaining to me this morning about her broken shower. It has been out of action for the past three weeks, which has meant she’s had to wash her hair in the bath.

She confided it wasn’t good for women to do that and she was now suffering the consequences.  She said she’d spoken to other women who’d said the same thing.The problem was that sitting in water containing the chemicals only normally applied briefly to her head were having a very painful and annoying result on a different part of her anatomy, if you get my meaning.

She asked if I ever suffered the same problem.  I don’t, at least not anymore, and it’s not because I don’t wash my hair in the bath because I do.  The reason I am okay is because I use certified organic skincare and personal care products, which are absolutely free of harmful synthetic toxic chemicals. I can actually read ALL the ingredients on the label and as they come from a food source know exactly what they are.

It wasn’t always so, but circumstances in my life have made me realise you can’t take everything at face value and need to question all sorts of things.  The fact that items appear on our supermarket shelves does not make them safe, and if consumers were to read the back of their skincare and personal care items in the same way they do their food items, they would realise how many toxic chemicals they are actually putting on their body.

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