Not necessarily. For years, this advice has been given to parents to avoid triggering a nut allergy – but it may be out-dated. Children regularly given foods containing peanuts before age five were 17 times less likely to develop a peanut allergy than children whose parents avoided giving them peanuts. Research Paper Title Randomized Trial… Read More
The MOD currently maintains 123 separate twitter accounts. MOD: @DefenceHQ @ArmedForcesDay @SoldierUK @UKForcesAfghan @DefenceImages @HQARRC @defencemedia @MODGibraltar @SaBRE_Support @DRM_Support @mod_des_jobs @MOD_DIO @VeteransUK_MOD @bfcyprus @DefenceMedia Royal Navy @RoyalNavy @BOA1943 @HMSPortlan @HMSMontrose @RoyalNavy_LGBT @HMSPresident @HMSKingAlfred @RNRMWelfare @HMSBangor @TeamRN1 British Army @britisharmy @armyjobs @theironfist @YORKS_REGT @combatphot @theroyalwelsh @engineersband @RIFLESband @Queens_Div_Band @TheRLCBand @RGBandandDrums @RaBand1762 @remeband @PARA_Band @agc_band @MercianRegiment @ColdstreamBand… Read More
A recent tribunal has highlighted the importance of having a policy on ‘vaping’, or using e-cigarettes , at work. In Insley v Accent Catering, a school catering assistant claimed she was constructively dismissed. The headteacher of the school where she was working complained to its catering contractor that Ms Insley had been smoking in front… Read More
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power, in all other cases observe it.“ Gaius Julius Caesar
Profile Edward Archer is a physiologist and obesity theorist at the Nutrition and Obesity Research Centre, University of Alabama at Birmingham. This essay, written by Archer, is based on his paper “The childhood obesity epidemic as a result of nongenetic evolution” (Mayo Clinic Proceedings, vol 90, p 77). Article How can skinny people still exist? If we live in an environment that promotes obesity- filled with… Read More
Using information from the Joint Personnel Administration system (for RAF, Royal Navy and Royal Marines) and the Army Air Corps (for the British Army), Defence Statistics can identify that as at: 01 December 2014 there were 1,790 trained regular pilots in the RAF. 01 February 2015 there were 550 trained pilots in the Army. 01… Read More
“In war important events result from trivial causes.“ Gaius Julius Caesar
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