Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
I’ve been interested in restricted diets and food hypersensitivities for around two decades, and to my regret — with the exception of the odd passing mention — I’ve yet to say a word about phenylketonuria (PKU). This, today, International PKU…
Read more
Real bread, according to Sustain’s Real Bread Campaign (RBC), must be free of artificial additives and processing aids. So no baking powders, enzymes or vegetable gums such as xanthan. Essentially: flour, water, yeast, and salt, then, with added herbs and…
Read more
You’ll have heard the news of the heart health and death-delaying benefits of whole grains in the diet earlier this year (see the Guardian’s report here, for instance), but if you’re coeliac you may be concerned about getting enough, not…
Read more
When a2 Milk™ launched in this country five years ago, I admit to being sceptical about its purported benefits. The thing that sticks most in my mind was that the evidence presented to us was incomprehensible. It was so perplexingly…
Read more
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….
Read more
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 —…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more