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Nutrition

‘Sweetening milk with non-nutritive sweeteners without declaring them on the label will make it easier for consumers to identify its overall nutritional value’…

07/08/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

What?....... Well, that, if you can get your head around it, is what the US International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is asking the FDA to let them do. It is, apparently, all part of trying to combat obesity by improving …

Category: Big Business, Environmental Issues, Food/Health Policy, NutritionTag: 'healthfulness' of school meals, calories no longer relevant to obesity, Dr. Mercola, FDA, IDFA, low fat foods no longer relevant to obesity, milk based foods sweetened but not labeled, milk products sweetened with HFCS, NMPF, reducing childhood obesity

Djokovic and gluten – again…..

06/08/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  11 Comments

Novak Djokovic has just published his autobiography (entitled, somewhat predictably, Serve to Win) charting his rise from a injury-dogged, ache-plagued asthmatic to a level of fitness and endurance reached by few, even among the elite sporting community. No, I have not yet …

Category: Coeliac/celiac disease, Conventional Medicine, Dairy-free, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, NutritionTag: Alex Gazzola, ATP should stay out of Djokovic gluten argument, coeliac disease, dairy and allergic asthma, Djokovic, Djokovic not a coeliac, Djokovic's asthma, Djokovic's open minded-ness, Dr Igor Cetojevic, drink warm water for better digestion, energy is electrical current, energy medicine is 'staggering tosh', energy medicines, Galileo, kinesiology, Manuka honey, Novak Djokovic, Novak Djokovic gluten-free diet, reduce sugar for better health, sensible nutrtitional advice, Serve to Win, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wall Street Journal, Western science-based medicine often fails

Poverty – an added burden for asylum seekers escaping from torture

26/07/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

If I am hungry and I buy something, then I can't afford to buy something the next day. Only occasionally I don't feel hungry. There’s nothing worse than thinking all your problems have ended because you get ‘status’ and then becoming homeless. It’s exhausting to survive …

Category: Freedom from Torture, Nutrition, PoliticsTag: asylum seekers, financial plight of asylum seekers, Freedom from torture, poverty among asylum seekers, Still Human Still Here, Survivors Speak Out, The Poverty Barrier, torture flashbacks, UN Convention against Torture

Healthy vending – there is such a thing?….

14/06/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

That was the response of 80% plus of those who took part in our vending survey at the Allergy and FreeFrom Show last weekend. But why? A vending machine is only a box. There is absolutely nothing instrinsically either healthy to unhealthy about it. But because, over the last 40 …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, NutritionTag: 24Vend, Abercromby Vending, Allergy and FreeFrom Show, AVA, chair of Guild of Food Writers, coeliac disease, food-to-go, FreeFrom Food Awards, Gail Pastry Company, Gillian White of 24Vend, gluten-free food in vending machines, Guild Food Writers, healthy vending machines, hydration for concentration, It's Only Natural, Moshi Monsters, NHS Glasgow has healthy vending machines, obesity blamed on vending machines, presenteeism, Richard Erlich, school meal queues, Schools Drinks Company, Ultradian performance rythm, Vending machine survey, vending machines, vending machines banned from schools, vending machines ideal for 24/7 grazing, Working Families

Freefrom, freefrom and more freefrom…

14/06/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

As you might have noticed from the dearth of recent blogs, the last two weeks have been heavily taken up with freefrom food events – first the first European FreeFrom trade show in Germany, then the Allergy and Freefrom Show (complete with the presentation of the Freefrom …

Category: Allergies, Blogging/social media, Coeliac/celiac disease, FreeFrom Food, FreeFrom Skincare, NutritionTag: 24Vend, Alex Gazzola, Allergy and FreeFrom Show, Being Healthy Vending conference, Foodsmatter on Facebook, FreeFrom Food 2013, FreeFrom Skincare Awards, Lady Gaga on Twitter, Linked IN, Pinterest, Stephen Fry on Twitter, Truly Gluten Free, Twitter

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