Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
It’s Coeliac UK’s Awareness Week – this year, the charity has pushed for a #glutenfreevolution, focusing on eating out and eating on the go – and it’s also Real Bread Week – Sustain’s initiative to champion healthy, naturally made bread, made the old-fashioned way. Both valuable initiatives….
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If we’re to believe all the headlines from the last few days, a gluten-free diet increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. We read those screamers in the Express, the Independent, the Times, and the Telegraph, among many others –…
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A review of the year has become a tradition, and in 2015 I introduced a top 10 format to distinguish highs and lows. No surprise, given the dismal 2016, that the Worst shortlisted candidates far outnumbered the Best, but let’s hope…
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Do we get meaningful information from the results of surveys we read about in the news? This week a couple of press releases on what we do not eat have crossed my path. In the first, according to data from…
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Another of the problems caused by free-from brands dissing such allergens as wheat (usually, but sometimes milk) is that fellow free-from brands are tempted to do likewise. Where Genius have led, others have followed. I don’t know much about this…
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Genius are no stranger to this blog, and my criticism of their pursuit of a marketing strategy which seems to involve aligning themselves – and the gluten-free diet (GFD) – with fitness, sport and sporting excellence was covered in a…
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I’m not 100% sure what a hipster is, but it appears to involve multiple tattoos and skinny jeans and possibly an unruly beard and maybe implanting one of those black Polo-mint-shaped earrings through which you can see daylight into a…
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Earlier this summer I came across the display below in a branch of Boots local to me. Under ‘healthy snacking’ are stocked Tasty Little Numbers jelly beans, fruit-flavour chews by Fruitella, Udi’s bagel chips, TLN biscuit bars, Sweet Freedom ‘Choc…
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A quick post about the article ‘Why Food Allergy Fakers Need to Stop‘ – published a couple of weeks ago, which proved a massive hit on social media among many coeliacs and food allergics – and its follow-up of sorts,…
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Investigative food journalist Joanna Blythman’s Bad Food Britain is a brilliant book: a devastating critique of much about what is wrong with our country’s diet and attitudes towards food which, almost ten years after publication, is still relevant and valid….
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