Ira and I were watching some more of QI (a BBC comedy quiz show) last night, when we heard that the founder (Edward de Bono) of ‘lateral thinking’ had made a very unusual suggestion to solve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict during a think tank session. To send out huge (presumably free) consignments of Marmite!
Apparently a Zinc deficiency can lead to you being more aggressive than you would otherwise be, so to try and minimize the violence in the Middle East, perhaps they should try sending out something high in zinc… In a similar vein, Dr. Alexander Mauskop suggests that having Botox for migraines may help relieve the symptoms! The idea is relatively simple, and has been tested out to a certain degree - if there is little to no tension around your head, migraine seem less likely to attack…