Most people interested in the subject will by now have registered the publication last month of the new NICE guidelines for the assessment and diagnosis of food allergy in children. They are relatively limited in objective and scope but, as Dr Adam Fox from the Childrens' …
Allergies
The Grain-Free Life
Those of you following Micki Rose on her grain-free road to health (see my blog post last month and her new website ) and who may have tried Jacquie Broadways's Amaranth and almond bread recipe will be glad to know that our first consignment of flours (amaranth, teff, chestnut …
‘Allergy Weeks’
If 'weeks' really achieve their intention of raising awareness, by the end of May the world awareness of allergy will be at an all-time high. A quick trawl of 'weeks' on Google's first four 'allergy week' pages brought up no less than six – and that only covered the UK, the US, …
Kill Sulphites – Dry Your Own Fruit!
A short piece in Natural News caught my eye the other day on drying your own fruit. What a good idea! Although, obviously, it needs a bit of advance preparation. But with fresh fruit season hoving in view, it is worth considering. If you do have any kind of sulphite …
The Pitfalls of ‘Advising’
It is really not easy being a government health agency. Whatever you say, you will be wrong in someone's eyes (sometimes wrong in almost everybody's eyes) but the purpose of your existence is to advise, so advise you must, even when there really is no advice to give. (The …