Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
If you have reasons to support the scrapping of gluten free prescriptions, they are probably unreasonable ones. “Gluten free foods are widely available now”. Even the Department of Health is pushing this one upon us, as they outline in their consultation on the prescribing of…
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You may remember the brouhaha in August when the Daily Mail claimed the NHS spent £116 million on prescription ‘gluten-free junk food’. It screamed ‘Doughnuts and Pizzas on the NHS‘ – if you’re a coeliac and can bear to be…
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Investigative food journalist Joanna Blythman’s Bad Food Britain is a brilliant book: a devastating critique of much about what is wrong with our country’s diet and attitudes towards food which, almost ten years after publication, is still relevant and valid….
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“Doughnuts and Pizzas on the NHS” – the latest attack on the NHS from the Mail. The story originally claimed £116m of gluten-free junk food was being made available on prescription, as the cover page below shows, but this has…
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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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Following on from my previous post about restricted coeliac prescriptions in Yorkshire, it seems Lancashire is following suit. News today in The Bolton News says that treat foods are being ‘axed’. Is this part of a larger trend, then? Will…
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We tend to get occasional waves of media coverage of food intolerance, food allergies and coeliac disease, usually centred around a celebrity claiming to have lost weight by giving up wheat, or perhaps around an awareness week or campaign. Not…
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