If you are wondering - you are quite right - the two topics have nothing in common, beyond the fact that alerts for both dropped into my inbox this morning and I thought both deserved a wider airing. The drop in key nutrients in our food over the last 40 years This alert came …
Long Covid
A few weeks ago, under the wonderfully knowledgeable guidance of Dr Rachel Nicoll, Biolab ran a day's medical conference on Long Covid. What follows is a laymans' overview of the day so I hope that Dr Nicoll will excuse the fact that it will exclude much of the more technical …
Living with – or attempting to live with – Total Food Intolerance
Long term followers of this blog and of the original FoodsMatter publications will remember John Scott, champion of helminthic therapy and world expert on living with total food intolerance. John did just that himself for many years, surviving only on elemental infant …
FSA’s Food Hypersensitivity Symposium 2022
Earlier this month the Food Standards Agency held one of its annual food allergy/hypersensitvity (FHS) symposiums. We were in the middle of the FreeFrom Food Awards judging so I couldn't be there in person but fortunately they offered on line access to all of the talks and …
FreeFrom Skincare Awards shines the spotlight on labelling
The 2022 FreeFrom Skincare Awards, now in its eleventh super successful year, opens today - seeking out the ultimate in skincare products which are ‘free from’ some of the many ingredients which consumers need or want to avoid. As always, our good friend Alex Gazzola will be …