I am sure that all of you know Micki Rose – a frequent contributor to the FoodsMatter site, expert on all things gluten-related and founder of the Truly Gluten Free site. Some of you may have noticed that we have not actually had any articles from her since her marathon …
Micki Rose
Life as a multiple food intolerant
Listen up, you guys who think you might be a bit intolerant to gluten - or maybe to raw eggs. You have no idea... Micki Rose, who many of you will know from her TrulyGlutenFree blog and the many articles she has written for our sites, is a 20-food lady. No, not 20 foods that she …
Arsenic in rice
Rice paddies in Bangladesh, courtesy of On Earth where you will also find a scary article on what global warming could do to Bangladesh... I am sure that many concerned parents, wheat and gluten intolerants/coeliacs and vegetarians will have tuned into tonight's Channel 4 …
Smile and the world smiles with you…
Over the last few days I have been communing with Micki Rose on the subject of smiles. In the light of January's 'Black Monday' and 'Dreary Tuesday', not to mention her own on going sensitivity problems, we were thinking, based on no more research than what we both vaguely …
Corn in sanitary products – and elsewhere
Although corn is nowhere near as common an allergen as dairy or, indeed wheat, for those who are allergic to it, it is a very trying allergy to have! If you think that wheat is ubiquitous - just try corn. Even when it is not an ingredient it will almost inevitably have been …