The late Dr Abram Hoffer*, who started successfully treating schizophrenic patients with large doses of niacin (Vitamin B3) in the 1950s, always said that it took 50 years for the medical profession to take a new treatment seriously. And we were, indeed, into the 21st century …
Peanut allergy
Awards, Food Matters Live – and Irish mists…
It has been a busy week for awards!! Working backwards – on Wednesday the shortlist for the 2015 FreeFrom Eating Out Awards was published – to much excitement on the part of those shortlisted. (We have been sending out invitations to the presentation at Food Matter Live on the …
Frustration and anger of ‘may contain’ labelling
A very brief post as I am just off to catch a plane to Dublin to help launch the new Irish FreeFrom Food Awards! As many of you will know, we at FoodsMatter are looking at starting a 'freefrom' assurance scheme the purpose of which will be to bring some clarity to the current …
Dragons mess with Coeliacs…..
I do not watch the Dragon's Den as I do not enjoy ritualised humiliation. I know that it is all about making entertaining telly, but there are other ways. And yes, I know – the Bake Off does ritualised humiliation as well, but it is so much gentler..... However, this morning I …
Emoji-ing food allergens
I have been having an interesting exchange over the last ten days with one of our long-time subscribers who sent me a link to a document on the UTC (Unicode Technical Committee) site. (The UTC, for those do not know, 'is responsible for the development and maintenance of …