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Using unusual foods in your diet, especially in rotation, can help extend and vary your diet. You are less likely to react to a food if you have never or seldom eaten it. Use substitutes such as goat’s and sheep’s milk and cheese if you can, and unusual grains, such as buckwheat, sago or tapioca. [...]

You have a choice of four ways in which to eliminate chemicals from your environment in order to test what you are sensitive to:

• totally avoid one or a small number of specific chemicals

• eliminate chemicals in one area of your life (e.g. clothing or cosmetics)

• create an oasis in one room

• have a radical [...]

If you are exceptionally sensitive, you may not be able to wear even low-allergen products. You may have to avoid toiletries and cosmetics altogether. It can be very difficult to have to give up something that is a source of self-esteem or pleasure, and can be a hard decision. On the other hand, total abstinence [...]

Various materials are used in cavity wall insulation, in which insulating material is placed between the outer and inner wall of a building. One such material is urea-formaldehyde foam (UFF) which is injected into the cavity and forms a foam which adheres to the wall surfaces. UFF is only ever used on existing buildings, not [...]

You can buy a range of devices which will remove particles and filter the air that you breathe. These can be of real benefit if you choose one that is effective for the things to which you are sensitive (some devices remove some allergens or substances and not others). They are cheap to run, costing [...]

Withdrawal-This is a simple method but it can be frustrated by, or frustrating for, either partner. The man withdraws his penis during the interval between his orgasm setting in and ejaculation starting. Since his instinct at this time is to thrust his penis deep into the vagina he may fail to withdraw in time. As [...]

Although an increasing number of sexual difficulties are known to be the result of physical illness, the majority are probably of psychological origin. It is always possible that discoveries such as the fact that high prolactin or oestrogen production in some men can produce impotence will explain some sexual difficulties but they are unlikely to [...]

Our knowledge of the detail of what really happens during sexual arousal was, until about twenty years ago, very patchy indeed. The pioneering work of Dr William Masters and Dr Virginia Johnson in the USA changed all that and now many other researchers have repeated and extended their work.

In a [...]

Because there are now so many people around in the remarriage market a whole new industry has arisen to cope with them. Marriage bureaux are, of course, not new but they are increasing in numbers and some deal with specialised groups of the population. Computer-dating is popular and singles clubs and those for the divorced [...]

Many a woman says that her husband will not row with her and that as a result she cannot clear the air. This often happens because women tend to have superior verbal skills and, along with their female logic, defeat men, who then choose not to argue. There must have been a failure of communication [...]