diet & nutrition

Gluten free bread: is it really so bad?

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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The Gluten Free Diet: for better or for worse?

I’m still processing last month’s anti-gluten Twitter campaign from ex-Dragon Duncan Bannatyne – a man who, remember, warned hundreds of thousands of followers against accepting nutritional advice from dietitians trained to give it, and in the same unqualified breath dished…
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Was there sense about allergy from Sense About Science?

I’m a fan of science. I’ve little patience with those who consider science an optional means of understanding the world (in my experience, exclusively people who’ve never studied it), and I believe evidence-based medicine – which uses rigorous scientific method…
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Roger Federer Eats Gluten

Every time there’s a major tennis tournament, a curious thing happens: I see a marked increase in the frequency of Andy Murray’s and Novak Djokovic’s names appearing in my blog analytics ‘keywords’, often alongside ‘gluten’ or ‘celiac’ or ‘allergy’. A…
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