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Ah, another food sensitivity article from a national, this time the Mail. It’s boring and tells us nothing new, but manages to make mistakes while doing so. Spotting the inaccuracies in such stories can feel as challenging as looking for…
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We tend to get occasional waves of media coverage of food intolerance, food allergies and coeliac disease, usually centred around a celebrity claiming to have lost weight by giving up wheat, or perhaps around an awareness week or campaign. Not…
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Yesterday’s story here in the Express about unorthodox food hypersensitivity tests frustrated me a bit. Once again it’s the unsatisfactory tactic of using an inappropriate patient as a case study. In previous examples, such as the example in the Times…
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Following on from my post this week, Food exclusion: a dangerous game, about why experimental food exclusion or elimination could cause you unwanted problems, even if it does make you feel better, I’d like to expand a little on the…
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I keep coming across people – in person, on chat forums, word-of-mouth friends of friends – who are excluding foods from their diets experimentally. Some seem to be just having a go to see whether they feel better, perhaps because…
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I’m delighted to announce the release of my new book, Living with Food Allergies, published by B Jain Publishers, in India. It’s a practical and informative guide to managing and coping with food allergies – as either a sufferer or…
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I suppose we should perhaps be grateful that the Daily Mail didn’t claim that bread causes or cures cancer yesterday, but the news here that giving up bread ‘can make you fat’ and that ‘gluten is good for you’ nevertheless…
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I want to reproduce a summary section from the Wheat Hypersensitivity Report here, in full: What are the gaps in our knowledge? It is clear from a recent survey that a number of people consider themselves to be intolerant or…
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Excellent and promising news that a major peanut desensitisation study is being launched after a successful pilot in Cambridge. Here’s a good report. It has generally been well covered. Excuse the pun, but in a nutshell, the scientific process involves…
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Testing for food hypersensitivities is a confusing business. Here’s a summary of what the medical profession can do: 1. Coeliac disease can be tested for effectively through a number of blood tests and a biopsy. 2. Food allergies can be…
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