Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
You have a few weeks from the date at the top of this blog to catch up with Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey, Episode 2, originally broadcast in 2009, and repeated this weekend, in which the well-known chef discusses food…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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’ … 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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