Dear Girl on Twitter…
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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gluten free / free from fad
Sort of gluten free pizza
Domino’s Pizza in the States have launched a pizza made from a gluten free crust. You can learn a lot about it on their FB page, but the crust is made from rice and potato flours and starches, with water,…
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Andy Murray and his food intolerance tests: gluten free, dairy free, not coeliac
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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Novak Djokovic: Wimbledon champion, gluten free, probably not a coeliac
New men’s number one and Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic has lost one match this year, in the French Open semi final, to Roger Federer. He has won his other fifty matches, including two grand slam finals. In April at the…
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The Lottery of Food Sensitivity Testing
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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Food exclusion: a dangerous game
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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‘Gluten is Good’
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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Think you’re food sensitive? You’re probably deluded, says Telegraph Doc
In posts earlier this week, I questioned the validity of the Flour Advisory Bureau’s Wheat Hypersensitivity Report, written by a team at the University of Portsmouth, and criticised the media’s reporting of it. The most dislikeable follow-up piece of writing…
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How the papers got it wrong on food allergy and intolerance. Again
My first post on February 14th explained how a press release from the University of Portsmouth about their Wheat Hypersensitivity Report, which was commissioned by the Flour Advisory Bureau, a body representing the British flour and milling industry, was faithfully…
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Old news is new news in food allergy and intolerance
21st January 2010 saw a press release fall into my in-tray from the University of Portsmouth’s press department. It opened: “Too many people are self-diagnosing food allergies and could be restricting their diet unnecessarily, according to a new report by the…
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