Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
Earlier this summer I came across the display below in a branch of Boots local to me. Under ‘healthy snacking’ are stocked Tasty Little Numbers jelly beans, fruit-flavour chews by Fruitella, Udi’s bagel chips, TLN biscuit bars, Sweet Freedom ‘Choc…
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A quick post about the article ‘Why Food Allergy Fakers Need to Stop‘ – published a couple of weeks ago, which proved a massive hit on social media among many coeliacs and food allergics – and its follow-up of sorts,…
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Imagine a world where “Chronic obesity is the new black” was a signpost to WeightWatchers ready meals. Or perhaps “Diabetes type I is the new black” was the slogan accompanying some sugar-free chocolate. I wonder whether we’re a step closer…
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Investigative food journalist Joanna Blythman’s Bad Food Britain is a brilliant book: a devastating critique of much about what is wrong with our country’s diet and attitudes towards food which, almost ten years after publication, is still relevant and valid….
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“Doughnuts and Pizzas on the NHS” – the latest attack on the NHS from the Mail. The story originally claimed £116m of gluten-free junk food was being made available on prescription, as the cover page below shows, but this has…
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I’ve said it before but to repeat: I have no issue with people following the diet they choose, but I do with those who urge others to follow suit, without recourse to medical or dietetic advice, and on the basis…
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I’m a fan of science. I’ve little patience with those who consider science an optional means of understanding the world (in my experience, exclusively people who’ve never studied it), and I believe evidence-based medicine – which uses rigorous scientific method…
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Top chefs attack EU rules on allergens in food reads the Telegraph this morning, to a collective sigh of frustration from those with food allergies, coeliac and intolerances, whose lives (in the case of those living with potential anaphylaxis) don’t…
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Should free from food companies and food service providers be actively marketing ‘coeliac and gluten sensitivity profile’ tests to their consumers? I ask, for that’s what Inspiral appears to be doing here, in offering a series of tests via a…
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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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