Yesterday both the Daily Mail and Telegraph ran long articles on the stratospheric growth in the gluten free food market. Here are two suggestions for what is powering that growth: 1. Gluten intolerance is not just about coeliac disease Earlier this year gluten expert Dr …
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The Allergy Show struts its stuff in the Grand Hall at Olympia
I do love Victorian ironwork. Whether it is the soaring arches of St Pancras Station, the Palm House at Kew or – the Grand Hall at Olympia. And, in terms of 'grand', you cannot get much grander than The Grand Hall at Olympia. The roof, 115 feet high and constructed from 85 …
It’s mitochondria, not hypochondria – Dr Sarah Myhill on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
I have always had huge admiration for the members of the British Society of Ecological Medicine – a group of medics most of whom started off as GPs or consultants, but who became disillusioned with medicine as it is commonly practised in the west. In their search for a better way …
‘Now EU wants allergy alerts on all menus’ – well, no…
Prue Leith hit the headlines in the Daily Mail this week when she condemned the new allergen regulations for food service coming into force in December as a 'bureaucratic nightmare' that will 'kill innovation and experimentation in the kitchen and cooking what is available daily …
Hands off my food!!!
When we asked Ruth and Sue to contribute an allergy diary and a coeliac's diary to our websites it was very much with the idea of giving those of us who are lucky enough not to have to live with either life threatening allergies or coeliac disease a window onto what it was like …