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The huge growth in the number of vegan products on the market should be a massive bonus for those with milk or egg allergies. But – so many of them come with PAL/May Contain warnings for milk and egg, that it has also been a cause of great frustration and no small degree of acrimony. Vegans and the allergy community are coming from very different places. And then there is the food industry – with a whole different set of priorities – and the regulators/enforcers who have to police the territory. At a very interesting seminar organised by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute last week it soon became clear that there are basically four players involved. Read on... |
A recent article in the Evening Standard by Rachel Johnson was read with fury by the food allergy community. Michelle Berriedale-Johnson points out in how many ways Johnson got it wrong. She also brings news on Precautionary Allergen Labelling, the Ready2React Campaign and advice on dealing with allergies at work. Read on... |
The Specific Carbohydrate Diet was created in 1924 by a US pediatrician Sydney Valentine Haas (1870-1964). He used the diet (affectionately known as the banana diet) to help children with failure to thrive, protein malnutrition associated with celiac disease, and inflammatory bowel disease. It was subsequently developed, with guidelines and recipes by Elaine Gottschall in her 1987 book Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet. In an interesting article in this month's Townsend Letter, Christine Bowen decribes how it resolved her lifelong intestinal issues, the research that has subsequently been done to validate Dr Haas' theories and the success she has had with her own patients on the diet. |
Could the unprecedented 8-fold rise in horse deaths at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, in May and June this year be connected to the wireless devices fitted on April 29th to all horses racing there? Arthur Firstenberg and the Cellphone Task Force suggests that they could. Read on. |
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