Advice For Your Needs

Healthy Eating

There is a close correlation between MS and the eating of saturated fats. To anyone who has MS both the amount of fat and the type of fat eaten should be considered of importance.

The extent to which you might want to change the foods you eat is up to you. If you want more information - and rest assured there is much of it around - see the Centre library. Better still, meet with our own nutritionist and work out with her your own menu plan taking into account "best practice" and individual (including family) likes and dislikes.  Please refer to our links to related sites pages and look at other sites for further advice on diet.

FISH RECIPES USING YOUR MICROWAVE

SIMPLE MUSTARD HERRING
1 tbs. sunflower oil
1 tbs. lemon juice
3 1evel tsp. made mustard
2 herring
1 tbs. flour

Mix the oil, lemon juice and mustard in a flat microwave dish large enough to hold the herring side by side. Coat the herring with the flour, place them in the dish and turn over to coat them with the flavoured oil. Cover and cook on full power for 3-4 minutes. Leave to stand for 2 minutes before serving.

STUFFED HERRING
2 herring
l banana
4 tbs. natural yoghurt
2tsp. cornflour
l tsp. curry powder

Split the banana in half lengthways. Lay one banana half on each herring then fold the fish over it. Place them in a microwave dish. Blend the curry powder and cornflour into the yoghurt then pour it onto the herring. Cover the dish and microwave on full power for 3-4 minutes. Allow to rest for 2 minutes before serving.

LEAFY TROUT
3 large lettuce or spinach leaves
3 mushrooms chopped
3 tbs. natural yoghurt
1 finely chopped onion

Place the lettuce or spinach leaves in a microwave dish and cook on full power for 1 minute. Mix the mushrooms onion and yoghurt together, spread the mixture on the trout, then wrap in the leaves and cook on full powers. Place in the dish with two tablespoons of water. Cook on full power for seven minutes. Leave to stand for 1 minute.

Pam Hynd

Easy Access to Special Needs Information

A Physiotherapist has helped develop a new Internet portal site to provide access to a wide range of specialist services, products and information for people with disabilities, their families and carers.
In essence the site provides an easy gateway to a wide range of specialist e – commerce centres, including shopping and travel, as well as offering links to charities and other specialist organisations. There are also exclusive, tailor – made insurance products that cover special equipment for the home, scooters, and pets, additional travel cover and even high - risk sports.

The site, sponsored by organisations such as Easyjet and Travelability, is the brain child of Alison Gibson, a Physio with over 20 years experience, and John Burns, a lecturer at Leicester University who specialises in human factors and interactive systems design.
“We spent a long time researching – and asking the very people who would be using it” said Alison, who knew from working with adults with learning disabilities that unless the target audience liked the way the site was set up they would not use it, despite what was on it.

  With this in mind, they included on the site a wide range of links to exciting sports and leisure activities including places to visit, hobbies and online games. And to help users develop their IT skills, there is also a study pack on the site, Certain 2 Learn, offering an interactive computer course.

  ‘Each page is set up in exactly the same way. No gimmicks to it; it’s all very straight forward’, said Alison. ‘And we have spoken to all the companies personally so that we know exactly what they do and what they have to offer’. 

Article taken from FRONTLINE, JANUARY 2002