Many American universities, unlike those in the UK, require students living on campus to 'participate in a meal plan'. This, in the case of Lesley University in Massachusetts, has brought them into conflict with the 2009 amendments to US disability law that now class 'episodic …
Coeliac/celiac disease
The FreeFromFoods Awards shortlist……
The wires have been, as you would expect, humming since the publication of the FreeFrom Food Awards shortlist on Wednesday. A few disappointments that judges had not found favourite products quite as irresistible as hoped but a great deal more joy as freefrom companies both new …
Gluten-free food on prescription – again…
I realise that I am coming rather late to the most recent prescription charge furore – set off by the article in the BMJ's Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin suggesting that providing gluten-free food for coeliacs on prescription is bureaucratic, inefficient and outdated – see the …
Horses – labels – and freefrom…
A report on the radio last night suggested that the horse in your lasagne could have gone through around 12 'virtual' hands as it was traded from Romania (where there is a glut of horsemeat as horse-drawn carts have been banned from the highways) to Italy, to France, to Poland to …
Bad medicine: food intolerance
A few days ago Alex Gazzola pointed me to an article in the current issue of the BMJ by Dr Des Spence, a GP in Glasgow, laying into both the 'allergy industry' and the food industry for promoting food intolerance as a way to make money. You can read the article here and comment …