Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
I received a number of emails in response to my article in the Daily Mail last week, about coeliac Katrina Robinson, who experienced neurological symptoms for many years prior to diagnosis, and the failure of her doctors to suspect CD….
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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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He’s not the UK’s Damian Cardone by any stretch of the imagination, but coeliac chef Anthony Demetre has hardly endeared himself to British and Irish coeliacs this weekend by revealing on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen on the 9th April 2011 that…
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So this week’s news is that NICE has published the first evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and assessment of food allergy in young people and children. Here’s a link. The papers have it covered, and pretty well. Here’s The Telegraph,…
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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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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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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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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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In posts earlier this week, I questioned the validity of the Flour Advisory Bureau’s Wheat Hypersensitivity Report, written by a team at the University of Portsmouth, and criticised the media’s reporting of it. The most dislikeable follow-up piece of writing…
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