Those of you who watched Channel 5's Secrets of the Supermarkets last night will no doubt, like Alex Gazzola, be fuming this morning.... Alex was so cross with Chris Young, the Real Bread Campaign's spokesman who appeared on the programme, that he had already leapt into print on …
cost of gluten-free food
A ‘gluten-free scam’, the ensuing rants and terminological confusion
Julia Llewellyn Smith has caused a predictable storm with her article in yesterday's Telegraph, The Great Gluten-free Scam. In essence she is saying (backed by coeliac nutritionist, Ian Marber) that gluten is being demonised. It is not the cause of every ill from which you …
Gluten-free food on prescription – again…
I realise that I am coming rather late to the most recent prescription charge furore – set off by the article in the BMJ's Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin suggesting that providing gluten-free food for coeliacs on prescription is bureaucratic, inefficient and outdated – see the …
The cost of freefrom food
'As you can see, this is a picture of a FreeFrom pizza purchased from my local Sainsbury's. My name is Jasmine and I was diagnosed with Coeliac disease when I was three and a half years of age. I am now 19, live alone and am on a low but liveable income. My concern is that …
Gluten-free food – on prescription – or just cheaper?
On the basis that no publicity is bad publicity, last night's Newsnight feature certainly raised the profile of coeliac disease and gluten free food and, in the 'value for money' area, the NHS came out a lot worse than the gluten-free food manufacturers. None the less, a very …