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the web's fastest growing 'free from' site. 'Free from' food, 'free from' recipes, 'free from' nutrition, 'free from' personal care – articles, the very latest research, links and forums – all together in one easy-to-navigate location.

• FreeFrom Foods
A completely separate section of the site including links to freefrom food products and producers, new freefrom products, links to freefrom eateries and hosteleries and articles about freefrom food plus over 250 new freefrom recipes.
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• Articles and Research
The backbone of the site – hundreds of articles and thousands of research reports on the causes and management allergy and intolerance and the many health conditions related to them – or look at our recently added articles and recently added research.
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• New Articles •

• GREAT Healthcare Celiac Disease Education. Loretta Jay describes the new educational resource developed by the US-based National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. Read more...
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• Dr George Carlo warns on mobile phones: '...an unprecedented and insidious genetic experiment on our teenagers has reached global dimensions - and no one can predict where it might lead. Controlling cell phone use in young people is not a choice. It is an urgent necessity... Read more...
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• Allergies across Europe – Frances Dales looks at some of the results from the on-going EuroPrevall study. Read more...
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• Oral Allergy Syndrome topples peanut allergy in the 'league tables' – Nutritionist Micki Rose investigates. Read more...
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• Lectins. Many of us have heard of them but few really know what they are and how they can affect our health. Margaret Moss explains. Read more...
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• The Honey Trap. Many natural alternatives to sugar bill themselves as healthy – but are they? Catherine Quinn investigates. Read more...
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• Further questions about the controversial 2007 'Essex study' on short term exposure to phone mast radiation – more input needed from participants. Read more...
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• New Research •

• Could the use of paracetamol in late pregnancy and early childhood increase the risk of subsequently acquiring childhood asthma and allergic disorders as well as increasing the risk for autism in susceptible individuals? Read more...
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• Second study links swimming pool chlorine to risk of asthma. Read more...
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• Dramatic rise in teenage respiratory allergy in Sweden. Nearly 49% of teenagers suffering from respiratory or skin allergies... Read more...
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• Early herpes infection may protect against allergies.  In a dissertation for the Swedish Research Council, Shanie Saghafian Hedengren showed the correlation between Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) contraction before the age of two and a lower risk of producing antibodies against allergens... Read more...
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• Beetroot juice boosts stamina. A new study reveals that the nitrate in beetroot juice reduces oxygen uptake to an extent that cannot be achieved by any other known means, including training. The researchers believe that the findings could be of great interest to endurance athletes but they could also be relevant to those suffering from CFS or ME. Read more...
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• Caesarean delivery increases risk of childhood asthma. Blood from the umbilical cords of 37 newborn infants was sampled and analysed just after delivery and then three to five days after the birth to assess the DNA-methylation in the white blood cells – a vital part of the immune system. Read more...
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• Cystitis linked with food allergy. A urologist and an allergist, researching an often noted connection between interstitial cystitis (IC) and allergies, found that 35–40% of the IC patients they see have bona fide allergies to foods (of which they were totally unaware) and that their IC gets better when they remove those foods from their diet. Read more...
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• Deet insect repellent toxic to central nervous system. Researchers investigating the mode of action and toxicity of deet (N,N-Diethyl-3-methylbenzamide) found that it did not simply modify behaviour but inhibited the activity of a key central nervous system enzyme, acetycholinesterase, in both insects and mammals. Read more...
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