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As I pressed the "Publish " button on the keyboard yesterday after posting  this post  , an advert for toothpaste came on the television. This one : Because I had just been writing about food ingredients, and because I spend much of my time lately reading about them, I looked at the  Aquafresh website   and the ingredients on each type of toothpaste. (I have to say I thought that Aquafresh was just that, but it appears that there are at least 7 differents types by this one company) Extra Fresh ®  + Whitening Get Triple Protection® benefits every time you brush. Each variety provides strong teeth and gives your mouth a fresh, minty clean sensation that tastes great and lasts. Aquafresh® Extra Fresh® + Whitening toothpaste has a minty, extra-fresh flavor that tastes great! INGREDIENTS - Active Ingredient Sodium monofluorophosphate (0.15% w/v fluoride ion) Inactive Ingredients Sorbitol, water, calcium carbonate, hydrated silica, glyceri...

Write-Place: Cancer - Just "one of those things" or something m... : It happens to most of us at some point in our lives. We, or a family member or friend becomes ill and we begin to analyse our life style,...

It happens to most of us at some point in our lives. We, or a family member or friend becomes ill and we begin to analyse our life style, desperately searching for an answer to how this could have happened and even more desperately hoping for a simple solution to the problem. There has to be an antidote to all the "bad" things that we have knowingly done to our bodies up to now and if we stop doing some things and begin doing others, all will be fine, we think. We sometimes conclude that it's "just one of those things" and we were unlucky to have this happen to us. It was no one's fault and nothing could have been done to prevent it. Fortunately, many of us recover from the illness with no lasting side effects. Whether this was from the medical intervention we received or the changes we made in our diet and lifestyle - it is likely to be a combination of both - doesn't concern us too much. The illness that blighted our life has gone and we are tha...

Two days before assaulting a BBC producer, Jeremy Clarkson was told by a doctor that he might have cancer and that being given the warning was one of the most stressful experiences of his life.   He has attempted to explain his state of mind at the time of the attack by saying  "Two days before the “fracas”, I had been told, sternly, by my doctor that the lump on my tongue was probably cancer and that I must get it checked out immediately. But I couldn’t do that.  We were in the middle of a Top Gear series. And Top Gear always came first.’ Clarkson said he had now been given the all-clear, but wrote in his column in The Sunday Times : ‘That was the most stressful day I have ever had in 27 years at the BBC. It was beyond-belief stressful, everything was gong wrong, and then you know... there you go. But everyone has stressful days, and they manage to cope better than I had."   The Sunday Times Well, yes. We do all have stressful days and we all have dif...

Easter   is the oldest and most important Christian feast, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion, as described in the New Testament. It is preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting and penance. Easter is a  moveable feast  and is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first spring full moon. In  Western Christianity  (including Catholic and Protestant traditions) which uses Gregorian calendar the date of Easter varies between 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Christianity uses the Julian Calendar and for this reason it celebrates Easter about two weeks later, varying between 4 April and 8 May on the Gregorian calendar. So,if you can get your head around all that, or even if you can't, today where I am is Easter day. As with most festivals, there are many traditions surrounding the celebration and many stories and legends around the word Easter, To some it is the celebration of Spring and of Eostr...