[Romantic Old Bird]

Well, in 38 years as a nurse I have nrever met anyone diagnosed with a 'condition' called hypoglycaemia!

It's not a disease, you don't need curing from it. It just means 'LOW BLOOD SUGAR!!!

It's a symptom. It means that you have not eaten enough for your bodies needs.

The advice Spacbandit gives is sound. We should eat little and often and exercise.

Some of us are gas guzzlers and need more food to keep going. Others (like me) are super economy models who need very little to keep them ticking over. That is the normal range of things.

Nicole Richie's problems are nothing to do with this normal range. She has starved herself to super skinny, and her gut doesn't want her to eat anymore. She can easily revert from this by gradually eating more at each meal.

If you don't have breakfast, then run around all day without stopping for lunch, then by tea-time you will have Hypoglycaemia.

As soon as you put yourself on the outside of a sandwich, a glass of milk, a mars bar or anything else with a few calories, you will be fine.

Don't feel sorry for this girl. She just needs a square meal or two, and something worthwhile to occupy her mind.

Perhaps she could try a job, or some voluntary work. I suggest a spell with the VSO in sub-saharan Africa. If she still doesn't want to eat, she could hand out her spare food to the people there. They do.