Over at Curlew Books Sally has started work with Dr Mark Griffiths, an expert on behavioural addictions, on a book on screen addiction, with particular reference to on-screen gambling. As a result I am currently attuned to research on addiction. So, although I was actually …
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Rethinking the Children’s category
Ever since we launched it in 2013 the Children's category in the FreeFrom Food Awards had been organised for us by nutritional therapist and special diet chef Christine Bailey who many of you will know well. Apart from having three children of her own on restricted diets …
Missing freefrom products
A few weeks ago Alex asked his Twitter followers what freefrom products they would love to be able to buy – but still can't. Predictably, good gluten free croissants and other baked products came high on the list – still horribly difficult to make, especially if you are trying …
A new approach to managing COVID 19
Drs Martin Kulldorff (Harvard), Sunetra Gupta (Oxford) and Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford) From October 1-4 the American Institute for Economic Research hosted a meeting of top epidemiologists, economists, and journalists. Their purpose was discuss the global emergency and the …
No Top 14 – or 15 – or 16?….
Back in 2017, looking for an exciting new category for the 2017 FreeFrom Food Awards, we took a risk and launched a category for products that contained none of the top 14 food allergens as defined by EU. We expected to get about 5 entries but thought it was worth giving it a …