As anyone who is involved in the food allergy world will know, Dr Hazel Gowland (our Freefrom Food Awards Hero in 2019) is a tireless champion of those who live with food allergy. Through her work with the families of those who have suffered fatalities and 'near misses' she has …
Conventional Medicine
Beyond Pills – kill over prescribing
'Social prescribing' - prescribing excercise, dance, writing classes, diets, yoga, singing with a choir, gardening or almost anything else that the patient fancies - instead of another drug prescription has been the buzz treatment on the NHS for several years now. And when you …
Highly Processed food as addictive as tobacco
This is by no means a new theory. How many books has Prof Robert Lustig alone sold explaining the mechanisim by which we can become addicted to food? (For a very brief run down on his theories see this report from a FAB Research conference a few years ago.) However, what has …
Could TRACE study findings point the way to a PAL solution?
One of the biggest bugbears of life as a food allergic person is Precautionary Allergen Labelling (PAL) or May Contain labelling. This is intended to warn you if there is a risk that the food concerned might be contaminated with any of the 14 major allergens. But because it is …
Long Covid
A few weeks ago, under the wonderfully knowledgeable guidance of Dr Rachel Nicoll, Biolab ran a day's medical conference on Long Covid. What follows is a laymans' overview of the day so I hope that Dr Nicoll will excuse the fact that it will exclude much of the more technical …