Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
I’d heard a few mutterings that Andy Murray, like his friend and tennis rival Novak Djokovic, had been making adjustments to his diet – and now we have some confirmation. In a press conference with the media ahead of the…
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I have just read what is in my view a fairly ignorant piece by Merryn Somerset Webb, editor in chief of Moneyweek. It’s here. Her view, also expressed on Twitter, is that coeliacs should no more get gluten-free food on…
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“There is no such thing as an unhealthy food, only an unhealthy diet.” I read this recently on Twitter, but it’s a regularly repeated statement in matters health and nutrition. It’s a variation, of course, on the “there are no…
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Today was probably the first day where I felt that I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary: the GF diet had just been a part of my day today like sleeping and breathing and bathing and writing. I just…
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Following on from my post this week, Food exclusion: a dangerous game, about why experimental food exclusion or elimination could cause you unwanted problems, even if it does make you feel better, I’d like to expand a little on the…
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I keep coming across people – in person, on chat forums, word-of-mouth friends of friends – who are excluding foods from their diets experimentally. Some seem to be just having a go to see whether they feel better, perhaps because…
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I suppose we should perhaps be grateful that the Daily Mail didn’t claim that bread causes or cures cancer yesterday, but the news here that giving up bread ‘can make you fat’ and that ‘gluten is good for you’ nevertheless…
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