I have only just realised, belatedly, that you are able to subscribe for email updates on specific research threads in our huge research and news forums. (For any of you who are not aware of them, these are John Scott's weekly, and sometimes daily, updates on new research and …
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Raw milk, the hygiene hypothesis – and medical spin
In one of his recent weekly updates of research links posted on our news and research forums, I found John Scott spluttering with indignation about the ingenious way in which the Vermont Public News had managed to turn a report that children who live on a farm and drink raw milk …
Taking a new look at allergy research
As those of you who get the FoodsMatter newsletter, or who regularly frequent the information sites, Foodsmatter.com and Coeliacsmatter.com, will know, every couple of weeks we upload between 10 and 20 reports of new research studies on allergy/intolerance and on the many other …
Listening to your food
I read an interview last week with a cook (sorry, name escapes me...) who had, temporarily, thank goodness, lost her sense of smell. She commented on how sharpened her other 'cooking' senses had become while she was smell-less – including her hearing. Having initially raised …
Is Sugar Toxic?
One of the purposes of starting this blog was to be able to highlight concerns which really do not fall within the remit of foodsmatter.com and its satellites. So I shall use this post to pass on one of John Scott's links to a lengthy but fascinating article in the New York Times …