This year's Allergy + FreeFrom Show at Olympia was a great success - huge crowds through the doors, lots of excellent seminars and workshops, loads of lovely freefrom foods to sample and skincare products to try out – and, of course, the presentation of the very first ever …
Dairy-free
Xanthan gum
Ingrid Greenfield has always been on the far left of the healthy food movement. Her husband, Tom, is an osteopath, naturopath and craniosacral therapist and works with the D'Adamo blood group theories. (The D'Adamo theory says that your ideal diet can be worked out from your …
The wonders of coconut…
I never thought I would hear myself saying this but – I love coconut... For years I was haunted by the memory of those multi-coloured dessicated coconut fudge sweety things that I was forced to eat at parties as a child – and which brought me very close to disgracing myself by …
Lactic acid
In a recent blog bemoaning the failure of wine makers to include allergens in the labeling on the bottles, Ruth at What Allergy? said that she had had a bad reaction (eczema – hard, liquid filled lumps which itched until scratched – on her eye lids, cheeks, forhead and across …
Allergy versus intolerance – again…
Today's excellent coverage of 'freefrom food' – a fab, in depth investigation on Radio 4's Food Programme (you can 'listen again' or download a podcast here) and a short item on BBC 1's Breakfast this morning – were, on the whole, pretty balanced, but they have caused the usual …