Many of you will have filled in our 'may contain' survey a few weeks ago and I promised both to let you know the results – and to explain why it was that we were doing the survey. So a few results first: When you were asked what you thought when faced with a ‘may contain …
Allergies
The frustrations of being first – peanut allergy and histamine
The late Dr Abram Hoffer*, who started successfully treating schizophrenic patients with large doses of niacin (Vitamin B3) in the 1950s, always said that it took 50 years for the medical profession to take a new treatment seriously. And we were, indeed, into the 21st century …
Awards, Food Matters Live – and Irish mists…
It has been a busy week for awards!! Working backwards – on Wednesday the shortlist for the 2015 FreeFrom Eating Out Awards was published – to much excitement on the part of those shortlisted. (We have been sending out invitations to the presentation at Food Matter Live on the …
Frustration and anger of ‘may contain’ labelling
A very brief post as I am just off to catch a plane to Dublin to help launch the new Irish FreeFrom Food Awards! As many of you will know, we at FoodsMatter are looking at starting a 'freefrom' assurance scheme the purpose of which will be to bring some clarity to the current …
Conceiving healthy babies naturally
Rates of infertility across the Western world are rising, and rising significantly. In Canada, they rose from 8.5% in 1992 to 15% in 2009-10; one in six couples now have difficulty in conceiving while sperm counts have halved – yes, halved - in the last 50 years. In Britain, …