When my sons were babies they both suffered from colic.  The only way we could get my eldest son to sleep was to take him for a ride in the car.  However, everytime the engine stopped he would wake up.

We gave him gallons of gripe water and Infacol but according to an  article from the UK publication “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” that probably wasn’t a wise move.

Apparently the Infacol contains saccharine and parabens as a preservative; and an average daily does of gripe water contains the equivalent amount of alcohol for a baby as five tots of whiskey for an adult! 

Probiotics are brilliant for babies.  They can be added to their milk, juice and dusted on nipples for breast feeding mothers.

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I frequently get e-mails with instructions to forward on to a certain number of people. I’m sure you get them too.

Sometimes I consider them worthwhile and this is one of them.

Everyone wants to be beautiful, purely because we live in an age where people are often judged on their appearance.

Apparently when Audrey Hepburn was asked to share her beauty tips she wrote the following.  It was read out at her funeral many years later.

For attractive lips  - speak words of kindness… 
For lovely eyes  - seek out the good in people. 
For a slim figure - share your food with the hungry. 
For beautiful hair - let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day. 
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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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