Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
Canadian researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a supplement from hen’s eggs which may help people with coeliac disease consume gluten. The details are a little unclear to me, but according to Professor Hoon Sunwoo, who co-developed the…
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I was at a talk many years ago – possibly at Gastro 2009 – where the speaker mentioned in passing that there appeared to be a slightly increased risk of coeliac disease in those with food allergy, and possibly vice…
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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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Non-coeliac gluten sensitivity doesn’t exist. Yes it does. No it doesn’t. Yes it does. Round and round we go, in an endless confusing circle of blinkered, righteous assertion. The scramble, when the news broke properly, to be among the first…
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We’ll gloss over my failed prediction from last year’s round-up that low-FODMAP ready meals would be in our supermarkets by the end of 2014 (by end of 2015, definitely … ) and instead kick-off where I left off – with…
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The 30th Congress of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology was held this week in Istanbul, and here is a round-up of the more interesting pieces of food allergy research to come out from it – covering EpiPens,…
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