Planet Lactose

I started reading Marvel Comics with Fantastic Four #8, back in 1963. I had already been reading comic books for years, with Superman and Ba...

Breastfeed your baby. Seriously. It's important. Breastfeeding is not just healthier, it helps children avoid allergy problems, accordin...

Cybele Pascal emailed to tell me that she has a new allergy-free recipe column on lime.com. Who's Cybele Pascal? Here's her bio: Hi!...

People who like cheese love to torture the stuff. Put it in ovens. Melt it over foods. Cheese isn't cheese unless it's bending and t...

Every once in a while you come across one of those great slap-your-forehead why-didn't-I-think-of-that ideas. Stuck on You is just that...

Canada knows from cold, and so you might think that they'd know from frozen desserts too. So far, So Good. Exactly. Vancouver's Soya...

Here's major news for those who might be suffering from dairy allergies. Allergy testing today is difficult and invasive. Some tests don...

Similar to yesterday's post, Udder Confusion is a UK article from The Independent newspaper, "The Dairy Debate." [Archieved ...

The respected UC Berkeley Wellness Letter is a good place to find down-the-middle information on both sides of medical "controversies,...

While I'm talking about the UK, I need to put in a mention for Tony's Lactose Free Cookbook , by Professor Anthony K Campbell and St...

When I learned I was lactose intolerant (LI) in 1978, I had literally never heard the term before. That was just a few years after the notio...

Since I complain so loudly when people get the facts about lactose intolerance wrong, it's only fair that I compliment the ones who get ...

Next time you happen to be passing through Hawaii (is that four subway stops or five)… Who am I kidding? Getting to Europe from upstate New ...

Yet another restaurant featuring specialty non-dairy food? Could it be a… revolution? Nah. But compared to zero anything is still nice to ha...

One of the hardest things to do in the world of medicine is to determine the role that any one particular food plays in overall health. Most...

I've been advocating yogurt for years as a way to get dairy into your diet for those who are lactose intolerant. The live and active cul...

Excuse while I bang my head against the wall. So much misinformation. I won't give any names, but here's a quote from an actress abo...

The biggest kid-magnet in the universe must be Disney. With 10 million or more kids going through the gates at each Disney resort each year,...

A decade ago when I wrote Milk Is Not for Every Body: Living with Lactose Intolerance I reported that the soy "milk" industry had...

Who says that you have to use milk to make a cake taste good? At the 4th Annual Great American Dessert Expo - now that's a vacation dest...