Extra Class: the EC responds to the Mail
Given that I have written for the Mail group of papers – it’s a few years old, but my article on a lady’s experience with gluten ataxia and coeliac disease is here – I am in some minuscule part a…
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media / journalism
Quit the outrage: it’s not personal
There was a terrific piece published in the New Yorker recently about the whole gluten cultural phenomenon, taking in coeliac disease, non-coeliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS), breadmaking, FODMAPs, and the free from industry. It was health journalism at its best. And…
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Will the Mail ever change their ‘It’s all in your head’ tune?
Another day, another Daily Mail article telling some people they’re deluded. I agree with Dr Ranj on a lot: the unproven usefulness of IgG testing, the risks of extreme diets, that self-diagnosis is not reliable, for instance. My objections are…
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When the Media come good on food sensitivities
Given my last post was a rant about media – namely Marie Claire – getting it very wrong, in this case on the subject of gluten-free skincare, and that poor articles on food sensitivity have fuelled many other stroppy posts…
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Gluten Free Beauty Won’t Save Your Life
More nonsense in gluten-free with the publication of this under-researched, alarmist and inaccurate article on gluten-free skincare in Marie Claire. Women’s magazines, like all magazines, exist to make money. To some extent, most women’s magazines achieve this by being seen…
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Some things change, some stay the same …
There’s been a great deal of media coverage of free from and food sensitivities lately, and it’s worth remembering how far we have come on this. I recall pitching allergy, intolerance and coeliac-related articles to magazines and papers ten, even…
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Poor Liddle Thing
I don’t know how many friends Rod Liddle could count among the food sensitive community before he unveiled his latest opinion to Spectator readers, but I suspect that figure has declined considerably, if the response that appeared in my Twitter…
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Do Me A Favour
“A suggestion, kindly meant: you need to establish relationships with individuals and organisations before asking them for favours.” I sent those words in an email to a certain nutritionists’ directory in November 2011. It was in response to perhaps half…
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Gluten allergy: a question of semantics
“’gluten allergy’ … really doesn’t exist. It’s not really a recognized allergy. Wheat is a recognized allergy – but a lot of people will misinterpret that as gluten.” So says Dr David Stukus, as reported in a Today.com article on…
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A gluten-free scam? Really?
This Telegraph article on “The Great Gluten-Free Scam” is an interesting read – and I’m delighted to see lots of good input from the terrific coeliac nutritionist Ian Marber – though a few bits have irritated, and several others deserve…
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