This weekend's newsletter carries a report on the Cambridge Peanut Allergy Clinic that I went to visit last month. The clinic was set up by Dr Andy Clark and his colleagues as a result of their successful 2014 trial showing that the immune systems of peanut allergic children …
Food/Health Policy
Rat study links increased cancer risk to mobile phone exposure
A $25 million National Toxicology Program study on rats and mice, the results of which were published earlier this month, was designed to test the widely held assumption that non-ionizing radiofrequency radiation (from mobile/cell phones) could not cause health effects at low …
Wifi, mobile phones and electrosensitivity – an update – and we need to support Professor Olle…
Almost every week I get at least three emails highlighting recent research, events or personal stories related to electrosensitivity. Since I know that what we are meant to be focusing on is allergy not ES, they tend to mound up into what, by December, is a pretty toppling …
More Brexit concerns – this time for those who are chemically sensitive
Those of you who are sensitive to chemicals, synthetic perfumes, air fresheners, foam rubber, weedkillers, commercial oil paints, fire resistant furniture and carpets, MDF........... – or those of you who read the article by Maxima Skelton in the last newsletter – may have heard …
The pitfalls of gluten-free pizza making
The convoluted and confusing messaging around the recent launch of US pizza chain Papa Johns' ancient grain pizza has been greeted with equal measures of 'shock horror' and hilarity. 'Papa John’s does not recommend pizzas with Gluten-Free Crust with Ancient Grains for …