Fans of Blockbusters, Call my Bluff and Anything Goes (including two of my now 30-year-old nephews who were bowled over by the fact that I actually knew Bob) will all be mourning the sad loss of Bob Holness, who died yesterday. So do all us who worked on the hugely successful …
coeliac disease
‘Food allergies in children over-diagnosed’
Oh dear, here we go again... The old chestnut. 'Over 40% of the population believe they have food allergies but in fact less than 5% do so the other 35% are unnecessarily restricting their diets and may be making themselves ill by not eating sufficient nutrients. This is …
Djokovic and his gluten-free diet
A great deal of hot air has already been generated by the seeming match-winning fall out from Novak Djokovic's gluten-free diet so I only propose to add a very small extra puff. The coeliac community and coeliac awareness has benefitted greatly from the coverage although there …
The Pitfalls of ‘Advising’
It is really not easy being a government health agency. Whatever you say, you will be wrong in someone's eyes (sometimes wrong in almost everybody's eyes) but the purpose of your existence is to advise, so advise you must, even when there really is no advice to give. (The …
Gluten Revolution
I wonder how many people who read Micki Rose's Gluten: no grain, no pain article, featured in the FM newsletter on 6th February, realised quite how revolutionary her theses are and how massive a lobby would be ranged against her should she gather any significant following for her …