Milk and yoghurt provide calcium that is important for children's health. These dairy products will NOT make them fat. It is salt that makes them fat.

See Children and Obesity

and FAT RETENTION

and Sodium in foods

Dried apricots and bananas would help you to lose excess weight. Here is a list of foods that are helpful and a list of foods it is best to avoid.

See Sodium in foods

The foods in green are the goodies. The foods in red are the ones to cut down on or avoid altogether if you are wanting to lose excess weight.

It isn't fish 'n' chips that's causing you to gain weight! - It's the salt you sprinkle onto the meal!

If you are overweight you have some fluid retention and you are sensitive to salt/sodium. Reducing your salt intake will reduce the fluid retention and so you will lose weight. Have a look at this page - Lose weight! and this - sodium in foods
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Are you troubled by Sneezing? Nasal Congestion? Phlegm? Catarrh? Nonallergic Rhinitis? Post-Nasal Drip? Runny Nose?- Feeling clogged up in a morning?

These problems are associated with sensitivity to salt and fluid retention. - If you reduce your intake of salt/sodium and salty food, all of these problems will lessen in severity. - It's worth a try, isn't it?...(o:

See Conditions related to salt sensitivity

and foods high and low in sodium

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

Tiredness a big problem for you? Insomnia? - Here are some some suggestions...

I spend my life in a fug of tiredness - Guardian

Extract:

"I have always had trouble getting to sleep but it has become much worse since I had glandular fever. I've tried everything from exercise and diet to taking sleeping pills. Now I'm at the end of my tether ."

The article contains various suggestions to help with this problem. - My own suggestion is to avoid eating salt and salty food. This helps with a surprisingly numerous set of health problems. - See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html and
http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/sodium_foods.html

Tony Blair has a cheek! (Referring to his recent speech, urging people to take personal responsibility for their health)

I must say Tony Blair has a cheek! - His government has only demonstrated concern about salt intake and, very importantly, the provision of information about sodium content on food labels in the last few years - at a guess, I'd say since about 2003. Both Labour and Tory administrations allowed the food companies free rein year after year to ladle more and more salt into their products, thus damaging irrevocably the health of innocent salt-sensitive purchasers.

I wonder again why The Chief Medical Officer in the early 90s apparently did nothing to implement an authoritative recommendation at that time of a maximum of 4g of salt a day, and apparently gave greater consideration to the desires of industry than to the health of the nation, and I wonder how many deaths and how much terrible suffering he was, therefore, personally responsible for? And I wonder why his successors in the post were so tardy in taking effective steps to give warnings about salt consumption? Political considerations? I consider the failure to put pressure on food manufacturers and caterers to reduce the sodium content of foods and meals until recent times to be a dereliction of duty of successive political administrations and health departments. - I remember buying McCance and Widdowson's 'Composition of Foods' in the late 90s, at considerable cost, in order to discover how much sodium there was in food. There was no way consumers could find it out from the pack. - The people of this country have been very ill-served in this matter yet Tony Blair seeks to blame the innocent victims!