Novak Djokovic has just published his autobiography (entitled, somewhat predictably, Serve to Win) charting his rise from a injury-dogged, ache-plagued asthmatic to a level of fitness and endurance reached by few, even among the elite sporting community. No, I have not yet …
Gluten-free
Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds
Treading the narrow path of virtue while still earning enough to keep a roof over your head is not always that easy. Last week, the splendid new Archbishop of Cantebury found himself in the embarrassing position of vowing to put pay-day loan operators out of business only to …
Autism and wheat
A new study by a team from Columbia University, Weill Cornell Medical College and Uppsala University in Sweden has caused somewhat of a stir recently by suggesting that 'a subset of children with autism displays increased immune reactivity to gluten, the mechanism of which …
Corn in sanitary products – and elsewhere
Although corn is nowhere near as common an allergen as dairy or, indeed wheat, for those who are allergic to it, it is a very trying allergy to have! If you think that wheat is ubiquitous - just try corn. Even when it is not an ingredient it will almost inevitably have been …
Food allergy and bullying
Sadly, bullying has been endemic in schools as far back as Tom Brown's Schooldays and no doubt long before. Whether it is the colour of your skin or your hair (we redheads have had our fair share), the fact that you are too tall/too small/too fat/too thin, speak with a lisp or …