Boots Pharmacies offer asthma sufferers advice on correct way to use their inhalers

The Daily Mail reports on a free nationwide service (funded by the NHS) offered at Boots chemists to people with asthma to help them to get the best from their medication and their inhalers.

Cutting down on salt and salty food helps reduce asthma problems and has many other health benefits too.

See Lowering Salt Intake reduces symptoms and increases lung function in people whose asthma is usually triggered by doing sports and physical activity

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, stroke, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, boost your lung function and improve your health in many other ways without drugs, hunger or expense by eating less salt! - Try it!

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Sodium in foods

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The staff in Boots the Chemist on West Street in Sheffield are so very pleasant and helpful I decided to mention it in my blog!

A friend drove me to Boots the Chemist as I needed advice about which dressings would be best for my arm while it is healing after the minor operation I had this week. (The dressings given me by the hospital when I left were far too small to be any use.) I've always found the staff in that chemist's particularly helpful and that was the case again today. One opened the door for me as she realised my arm was bad. She then suggested the pharmacist would be best to advise me about dressings and asked him to help me, which he did, kindly and knowledgeably, because obviously he knows his stock. Such pleasant helpfulness from all the staff is especially welcome when you are not feeling at your best. It's so easy to complain, I thought I'd just express appreciation for good customer service where it is merited.

Beware that Subway sandwich! - It is laden with salt!

Supermarket sandwiches have 'more fat than two McDonald's burgers'
Article in the Telegraph

Extracts:

"Channel 4's Dispatches programme examined products from five of Britain's largest sandwich companies - Boots, Greggs, Subway, Pret a Manger and Marks and Spencer.

Researchers measured the levels of fat, saturates and salt in 100 sandwiches using the Food Standards Agency's traffic light system.

According to the FSA, a red light indicates that the food is "high in something we should be trying to cut down on" and should only be eaten occasionally."

"Subway came bottom of the list in terms of salt content with 93 per cent of the sandwiches tested earning a red light.

The retailer's foot-long 'Meatball Marinara' contained 9.4g of salt, equivalent to 18 packets of ready-salted crisps.

Pret a Manger came third, followed by M&S and Greggs. Boots again faired best, with 7 per cent of its sandwiches earning a red light for salt."

If you are overweight or have high blood pressure/hypertension you need to avoid salt and salty food.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, angina, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/.html (The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

See Sodium in foods

See also FAT RETENTION

The Co-op is the greenest supermarket

Co-op named as greenest supermarket - Telegraph

Extract:

"The Co-op has finished top of a survey to find the High Street retailer with the best green credentials.

Ten big-name stores were looked at by the BBC's Money Programme to see how environmentally responsible they are.

They were assessed for the amount of carbon and waste they produce for every £1m of their turnover.

The Co-op emerged as the best of the bunch releasing £324 of carbon and waste and Somerfield finished bottom with £1,194.

Marks & Spencer came second followed by Tesco in third place and Boots in fourth.

The tests were carried out by the environmental research organisation Trucost which works with companies to help them understand their impact on the environment."


Lose weight and benefit your health in countless other ways by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better! -

How to Lose weight!

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New stocks of its No 7 Protect and Perfect Beauty Serum, - thought to be 'anti-aging' - resulted in long queues at Boots stores across the country.

Shoppers queue for hours to buy 'elixir of youth' - Telegraph

Extract:

"Boots stores across the country were overwhelmed by middle-aged customers hungry for an anti-ageing cream that has been sold out for the past month.

More than 100 people queued outside the company's flagship store in Oxford Street waiting for its doors to open at 7am as new stocks of its No 7 Protect and Perfect Beauty Serum finally hit the shelves.

Stores in Nottingham, Manchester and Edinburgh also opened early to cope with the demand. Other branches reported long queues."

I've no doubt that creams like this are helpful, as are moisturisers, but to preserve youthful looks, the best thing to do is stop eating salt/sodium, or at any rate, to cut down on salt and salty food. - What are usually thought of as signs of aging, or diseases of aging, are actually not caused by the passing of the years at all; they are caused by sodium retention and its accompanying water retention, often coupled with dieting/'slimming', always a damaging procedure.

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Lose weight fast and safely by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
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Leading British retailers such as Boots and Tesco will be invited to bid to open GPs' surgeries in their stores.

Fruit, veg and a trip to the GP as stores are asked to open surgeries

Extract:

"Leading retailers such as Boots and Tesco will be invited to bid to open GPs' surgeries in their stores in areas with too few doctors under an initiative to be announced by the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, today.

Advertisements calling for "experienced healthcare providers" to apply for four contracts initially worth £30m over five years will be placed in the national and local press this month.

Entrepreneurial GPs, social enterprises and companies in the FTSE 100 will be asked to apply. But supermarkets will have to team up with existing GP groups before they can be considered. The expectation is that supermarkets would provide the space for GPs to open surgeries within their stores, an idea in which several have expressed interest.

The initiative, first mooted in the 2006 health white paper, is designed to increase the number of GPs in deprived areas that have the fewest doctors.

The first four primary care trust areas to benefit will be Hartlepool, County Durham, Mansfield and Great Yarmouth, all areas that have significantly fewer GPs than the national average of 57.9 for every 100,000 people. Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT has 48.5; Hartlepool PCT 47.5; County Durham PCT 46.5; and Nottinghamshire county teaching PCT 43.6.

All four areas will have their centres set up by the end of the coming year, and 26 further areas are expected to join the programme in the coming months.

As services will be offered by private providers, the initiative means GPs will not be covered by the controversial GPs' contract - which allowed GPs to opt out of providing 24-hour cover - and so can offer "breakfast", evening and Saturday morning surgeries. Last week the Commons public accounts committee condemned the government's handling of this contract as "shambolic"."

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
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Trans fats 'to be eliminated by retailers' (Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Asda, Sainsbury, Iceland, Co-Op, Boots and Waitrose)

Trans fats 'to be eliminated by retailers'

Extracts:

"Companies such as Tesco, Marks & Spencer and Asda have volunteered to stop adding trans fats to foods in order to prolong their shelf life."

"Andrew Opie, the British Retail Consortium's (BRC) food policy director, said: "This is the latest in a string of healthy food initiatives and shows BRC members, responding to customer concerns, are willingly delivering a scale and pace of change way beyond anything retailers or manufacturers are doing anywhere else in Europe.

"Sainsbury, Iceland, Co-Op, Boots and Waitrose are also among the companies that made the step."

"Unlike other fats, trans fats are in no way beneficial and can cause heart disease."

A pity transfats were ever added to foods! - and a pity they were not removed from foods long ago! - They have LONG been known to be harmful to health...)o: - See Ban Transfats and http://www.tfx.org.uk/