Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
Today sees the publication of my book, Coeliac Disease: What you need to know. It has slightly crept up on me, as it was unclear when exactly in May it would hit the shelves, but my publisher has confirmed that…
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Unless I missed it, the hoped-for apology following the comments made by Anthony Demetre on the 9th April’s Saturday Kitchen never materialised on the episode broadcast on the 16th, but last Thursday Demetre did issue a statement via his agent’s…
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Esther Rantzen has written an article in the Mail about her daughter, Emily, who for many years has suffered from the debilitating effects of ME/CFS, and which until recently continued to effect her energy levels, despite ongoing improvement. A few…
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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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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 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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