Holland & Barrett- buy one get the second half price

tattybonce

A_Phoenix_of_Tangerine wrote: »

I buy the triple strength cranberry capsules. I'm overly prone to urinary tract infections, and after tearfully appealing to my Dr after the 7th or so cystitis attack that required antibiotics (which often one course would not be strong enough to properly eradicate), my Dr actually advised me that compounds in cranberry are very good at both preventing UTIs from occurring, and also at lessening the painful symptoms of a UTI when it does occur.

I was a little dubious, but would have tried anything if it had a chance of relieving me of this horribly painful bane. I bought a bottle of the capsules, and 2 years later I'm still buying them; I've only had 2 UTIs in that space of time, and these were also coincidentally when I'd neglected to take the cranberry tablets for a couple of weeks or so.

For me, these absolutely work and are not just 'quackery'; there are also many studies upon the efficacy of cranberry juice/extracts etc to treat this common medical affliction.

I know this may sound crazy, but I give cranberry capsules to my cat. He frequently suffered with urine infections and rather than keep getting him pumped with antibiotics at the vets, I tried giving him one capsule a day. In 19 months now, he has had one urine infection. He can now have two tubs! :T

Oopsadaisy

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

You don't have to be so offencive about something you have no idea about (I have obviously edited your post to respond - if I could I would report you for what you said but I can't as I don't have outlook mail of all things).

As for the cost I find them to be cheaper for a lot of things I buy when they have this deal on. It also means I don't have to go in a supermarket and buy loads of things I don't need thus saving money in the long run as I only buy what I need. This also means less waste which lets be honest is just another way of spending more money than you need to - saving money. Sometimes people shop in a different way to what you do and it benefits them in doing so but you seem very small minded and don't realise that to be honest.

What was offensive?? Oh, the cockney rhyming slang bit for 'fair enough'....how is that offensive?? So you can't go into a supermarket without buying loads of stuff you don't need, fgs get some self-control. Right, that's the insult returned now to your points...

I know that different people shop in different ways, and thank goodness for the diversity of the human species.

I was merely pointing out that a lot of what h&b sells is unproven quackery in many of the claims that they make for the products, as do all snakeoil salesco's. For example they often sell and claim products to be beneficial merely because they have been found to have a role in vivo [ie within the actual human cell]; however just because a product has a role in cellular reactions doesn't mean that ingesting it in a tablet has any effect whatsoever. A perfect example is 'antioxidants'.

Similarly even if a chemical component did have some small effect, the items they sell often contain the compound in a form that is either not absorbable by the human body or that is denatured/destroyed by your stomach acid before it can be absorbed into the body.

If me thinking that you should make informed decisions about what you are happily shovelling into your body makes me small minded, then thank heavens for being small minded.

Show me the evidence.

haycorns

For those people of special diets such as me this is a very helpful post . And to stop the moaners I am on a gluten free diet which is the only 'treatment' for coeliac disease. Nothing weird, wacky or unproven. Just a genuine need.

They have the best rice cakes here - the really thin ones that you can't get in the supermarkes.

Oopsadaisy

haycorns wrote: »

For those people of special diets such as me this is a very helpful post . And to stop the moaners I am on a gluten free diet which is the only 'treatment' for coeliac disease. Nothing weird, wacky or unproven. Just a genuine need.

They have the best rice cakes here - the really thin ones that you can't get in the supermarkes.

Coeliac disease - have you tried the junga junga berries that h&b sell, they clear it up really quickly. I know it's definitely true because a friend of a friend of the window cleaner for the woman who lives next door to the man who does the gardens for a bloke who went to school with the cousin of a woman who tried it told me so.

Alternatively have you tried homeopathy, acupuncture, reflexology, hot stones, shiatsu massage, feng shui or aromatherapy for it?? They all really work as well....

In all seriousness, so far we've got the thumbs up for the gluten free stuff [esp rice cakes], yoghurt makers/starters, cranberries, and food in general.

tattybonce

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haycorns

Oopsadaisy wrote: »

Coeliac disease - have you tried the junga junga berries that h&b sell, they clear it up really quickly. I know it's definitely true because a friend of a friend of the window cleaner for the woman who lives next door to the man who does the gardens for a bloke who went to school with the cousin of a woman who tried it told me so.

Alternatively have you tried homeopathy, acupuncture, reflexology, hot stones, shiatsu massage, feng shui or aromatherapy for it?? They all really work as well....

In all seriousness, so far we've got the thumbs up for the gluten free stuff [esp rice cakes], yoghurt makers/starters, cranberries, and food in general.

Some people just like to make their own entertainment out of others misfortune. The gluten free diet is a prescribed way to manage Coeliac Disease in the same way insulin helps diabetics. Its not an alternative therapy it is the only way to carry on living with coeliac disease.

The sale will benefit those who buy things that they like/help them from H&B . Anyone who doesn't have anything nice to say may leave now.

Oopsadaisy

haycorns wrote: »

Some people just like to make their own entertainment out of others misfortune. The gluten free diet is a prescribed way to manage Coeliac Disease in the same way insulin helps diabetics. Its not an alternative therapy it is the only way to carry on living with coeliac disease.

I KNOW that the gluten free is what doctors prescribe and is correct. The point I was making was that people suggest the very same wacky 'alterntative' treatments for other diseases, so why aren't they suggesting them for Coeliacs????

I hope you get as itate when somone suggests junga junga berries [a made up name btw] help manage ADHD or autism or IBS or arthritis, etc.

I'm pleased that you have pointed out the ridiculousness of my suggesting that Coeliacs Disease can be treated by acupuncture or hot stones or foot chi massage, if only know we could point out the ridiculousness in suggesting that any of them cure ANY illness at all.

BTW called into H&B and bought some of their dried fruit...it was on 25% off [ie buy one get one half price]!!

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If you use probiotic starter do you get a proper probiotic yog?

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