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‘The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about’

19/07/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Or, to rephrase Oscar Wilde, 'all publicity is good publicity'. But is it? That was what was bothering Tom Treverton as he was putting together the programme for his trade conference at this year's Allergy + FreeFrom show. And it was bothering him particularly in the context of …

Category: Allergies, Big Business, Coeliac/celiac disease, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Nutrition, Peanut allergyTag: ‘The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about’, Alan Sorensen, Alan Sorensen economic professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, All publicity is good publicity, Allergy + FreeFrom show, Allergy + FreeFrom show trade conference, Bad publicity forces people to take notice, freefrom food is healthier, How safe are freefrom foods?, living with dietary restrictions, Oscar Wilde, Phileas T Barnum, the importance of first impressions, Volkswagen emission scandal

The vital importance of good information when living with allergy

27/05/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

The conviction this week of Indian takeaway owner, Mohammed Zaman, for Paul Wilson's shocking and totally needless death in January 2014 has once again brought anaphylaxis onto the front pages. As I am sure you will all have read, Paul Wilson, who was peanut allergic, died …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: adrenaline reverses symptoms of anaphylaxis, allergy information available from a GP, Anaphylaxis Campaign, Chicken tikka masala causes death from peanut allergy, dangers of substituting cheaper allergenic ingredients, GPs poorly trained management of allergy, importance of precautionary allergen labelling, Mohammed Zaman jailed for death of Paul wilson from peanut anaphylaxis, Paul wilson dies from peanut allergy, poor allergy training in takeaways, takeaways dangerous for allergy sufferers, takeaways do poorly in FSA allergy survey

The FreeFrom Food Awards 2016 – the party – and the future!!!!

28/04/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Oh yes – the paparazzi were out in force – including Simeon (or was it Isaac) Bailey, judges in the children's category, who had come to the party with their Mum, Christine who organises the children's judging for us. Here he is snapping Tesco (Fiona Carter and Nicki Clowes) …

Category: Allergies, Blogging/social media, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Nutrition, Peanut allergyTag: Alex Gazzola, Allergy Adventures, Antony Worrall Thompson, BoojaBooja, Chef Dean at the Royal College of Physicians, Coconut Collaborative, Cressida Langlands, Food Allergy Intolerance Ink, Food and Drink Innovation Network, FreeFrom Food Awards, FreeFrom Food awards 2016, FreeFrom Food awards Marble Mo, FreeFrom Superhero, Grace Cheetham, Kate Bush and Wuthering Heights, Laura Marzen gluten free beer, Life Health Foods, Mrs Crimble's, Nutirbix, Nutribix, Royal College of Physicians, sorghum, Wide Circle Cooking, winner of the Freefrom Food awards 2016

Sugar success

17/03/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

George Osborne's surprise new sugar tax has been greeted with the predictable chorus of glad cries from health campaigners, howls of derision from industry and healthy scepticism from commentators. But whatever the chancellor's motives (and such is the repute in which he is held …

Category: Behavioural conditions / autism, Food, Food/Health Policy, Peanut allergy, Politics, SugarTag: British Society for Environmental Medicine, CASH consensus action on Salt and health, Dr Graham MacGregor, Dr Robert Lustig at the BSEM, Jamie Oliver school food campaign, Jamie Oliver sugar campaign, sugar, SUGAR - The Brain, tax on sugar in fizzy drinks, The Independent, the Microbiome and Cancer, the power of petitions, UK new sugar tax, will a sugar tax reduce obesity

Judging the GERMAN FreeFrom Food Awards!!

09/03/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

Yes, we have gone international!! Well, strictly speaking we are hanging on the coat tails of the Allergy + FreeFrom Show which ran its first show in Berlin last year. So successful was it that they decided to go back this year and the show's director, David McAllister, asked us …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Nutrition, Peanut allergyTag: Allergy & FreeFrom Show Berlin, Allergy + FreeFrom show, bread mixes in Germany, FreeFrom Food Awards, FreeFrom Food in Germany, German FreeFrom Food Awards, gluten-free food in Germany, vegan food in Germany

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