Those of us lucky enough to have relatively normal skin all pay lip service to 'how awful it must be to have bad eczema' and 'those poor little children' with weeping, open sores. (Pictures courtesy of Dr Harry Morrow Brown.) And indeed we do feel genuinely sympathetic – but how …
Allergies
Judging the 2012 FreeFrom Food Awards – fascinating and rewarding
Kate Hawkings (food writer) and Louise Marchionne (allergy therapist) 'working on' category 12 – scones, sweet tarts, sweet biscuits, cookies etc. Like last year’s, this year’s judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards was a thoroughly enjoyable, if somewhat exhausting, experience! …
Are Macdonalds french fries safe? Here we go with labeling again…
I am not sure who pointed me to this post but it illustrates, yet again, the terrible confusing tangle that is allergy labeling.... The question is, effectively, whether hydrolysing, or breaking down a protein into its amino acid components, destroys its allergenicity or reduces …
Raw Milk vending machines…
While the raw milk debate rages on in the west (see this post, the various sites linked from it, and this article in Caduceus magazine), further east they seem to have a much more laid back approach. See this delightful interview with Polish raw milk vending machine …
Taking a new look at allergy research
As those of you who get the FoodsMatter newsletter, or who regularly frequent the information sites, Foodsmatter.com and Coeliacsmatter.com, will know, every couple of weeks we upload between 10 and 20 reports of new research studies on allergy/intolerance and on the many other …