Special offer on probiotic acidophilus

Special offer on probiotic acidophilus

Probiotic acidophilus are proving to be important for people’s health in all sorts of ways. They help repopulate your gut with the good bacteria that are important for health.

Probiotic supplements can help people with digestive problems, such as diarrhoea, and now research is also showing they are great for baby eczema, for hay fever and for helping the immune system.

But it’s important to choose the right strains. Some strains just do not survive the acid environment of the stomach – they get broken down before they get to the intestine where they do their work. Different strains are more effective for different problems.

If it all sounds confusing, we’ve done the hard work for you by picking supplement combinations that do specific things: for babies and pregnant women, for travellers, for immune support, etc. There’s even a diarrhoea combination that works as well as Imodium, and helps your digestive system get healthier.

We are currently running a special offer on two probiotic formulae: the Travel formula and the Diarrhoea formula. Buy one of these and get a travel first aid kit free.

Probiotic drinks are often expensive, full of sugar and don’t always contain the right strains to do the job.

Check out our full range of probiotic supplements.

And remember we offer a 60-day money-back guarantee on everything on our site.

Gap Year Travels And Health

If you've got a teenager exciedly planning a gap year, you might want o buy a homeopathic travel kit to give them to take with them.

They are compact and come with an explanatory booklet that allows them to find the right remedy for the right situation.

Pesticide Contamination Of Wine

A study by the European Pesticide Action Network (PAN) of forty bottles of wine from France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Australia and Chile found 100% of conventional wines contained pesticides, with one bottle containing ten different types, the average being four. In all, 24 different contaminants were found, including five classified as being carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic or endocrine disrupting by the European Union. See www.vintageroots.co.uk for a link to the full report

Breast Feeding Advice

Most mums want to do their best for their new babies and know that breast is best, but sadly many encounter problems and don't know what to do.

Here's a great site for breast feeding advice.

Pharmacy Influence On Medical Journals

Here's an abstract of an interesting article:

Does pharmaceutical advertising affect journal publication about dietary supplements? by Kathi J Kemper and Kaylene L Hood
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008, 8:11doi:10.1186/1472-6882-8-11
Published: 9 April 2008

Background
Advertising affects consumer and prescriber behaviors. The relationship between pharmaceutical advertising and journals' publication of articles regarding dietary supplements (DS) is unknown.

Methods
We reviewed one year of the issues of 11 major medical journals for advertising and content about DS. Advertising was categorized as pharmaceutical versus other. Articles about DS were included if they discussed vitamins, minerals, herbs or similar products. Articles were classified as major (e.g., clinical trials, cohort studies, editorials and reviews) or other (e.g., case reports, letters, news, and others). Articles' conclusions regarding safety and effectiveness were coded as negative (unsafe or ineffective) or other (safe, effective, unstated, unclear or mixed).

Results
Journals' total pages per issue ranged from 56 to 217 while advertising pages ranged from 4 to 88; pharmaceutical advertisements (pharmads) accounted for 1.5% to 76% of ad pages. Journals with the most pharmads published significantly fewer major articles about DS per issue than journals with the fewest pharmads (P < 0.01). Journals with the most pharmads published no clinical trials or cohort studies about DS. The percentage of major articles concluding that DS were unsafe was 4% in journals with fewest and 67% among those with the most pharmads (P = 0.02). The percentage of articles concluding that DS were ineffective was 50% higher among journals with more than among those with fewer pharmads (P = 0.4).

Conclusion
These data are consistent with the hypothesis that increased pharmaceutical advertising is associated with publishing fewer articles about DS and publishing more articles with conclusions that DS are unsafe. Additional research is needed to test alternative hypotheses for these findings in a larger sample of more diverse journals.

Full abstract and author contact info

Drug Free Hay Fever Help

A recent study in the journal Clinical and Experimental Allergy gave one group of volunteers probiotics, and took blood samples from each volunteer before, during, and after grass pollen season, checking for antibody levels of immunoglobulin E (IgE). Those who took the probiotics had significantly lower levels of IgE specific for grass pollens and other allergy-related immune substances at peak season and afterward. (www.medicinenet.com)

Check out all our natural drug-free hay fever products.

help Wildlife

Here's some nice ideas for helping wildlife:

http://www.ravensbeard.org/Ravensbeard-Wildlife-Center-Simple-Things-to-help-Wildlife.htm