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Another day, another dismal and under-researched article on coeliac and gluten free, this time from Glamour Magazine. I’ll itemise some of my problems with it. Feel free to add your own. 1. Description of coeliac disease as ‘gluten aversion’. Food…
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I recently wrote a long piece on oats in the gluten-free diet for Coeliacs Matter, in which I examined much of the available research on this subject. In summary, many of the studies supporting the safety of oats were conducted…
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Those of you who in the last few weeks have been watching Channel 4’s excellent show The Last Leg with Adam Hills – essentially late-evening chat about the day’s Paralympics news, teamed with banter and discussion – will have been…
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It had been a year since the last GF tweetup but none of had gotten rusty in the preceeding 12 months and I think the debate was lively… What did readers look for in a GF / coeliac blog? *…
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You are always a girl, usually in her twenties, but sometimes younger, and you say you’re going to stop eating gluten. You say you’ve been feeling a bit ill, a bit bloated, a bit sick, a bit tired-all-the-time, and –…
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I was taken aback by an article by Esther Rantzen which appears in the current Waitrose Weekend magazine, and which you can read here. Rantzen has spoken about her daughter’s health before, and I have blogged about it briefly, but…
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Out of nowhere a third of the year has gone, and I’ve not stopped even to properly ask and assess how the new gluten-related labelling legislation has affected coeliacs and the kinds of products they can and cannot buy. Snack-a-Jacks…
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Some confusion yesterday morning (16th January 2012) on Twitter from Sainsbury’s account concerning gluten levels in foods, which follows neatly on from my post of two weeks ago which has been so widely read and commented on (thank you all…
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You’ll be aware that new Codex standards concerning the labelling of gluten-free and low-gluten foods came into force on the 1st January – although in practice most manufacturers have been compliant for some time. In a nutshell, food products containing…
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Well I thought the first one went well and I thought the second one went well too, and we had some new faces, which are always welcome. We kicked off with a discussion about terminology and its misuse – coeliac…
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