Planet Lactose

Where's the lactose-free ice cream, everybody asks. It doesn't sell, I reply. But it's out there if you look for it. Breyer'...

The article on Frozen Treats from the Washington Post drew some feedback in the Post’s letter column. Today’s paper has a letter from Matt ...

Alpro Soya is a major UK maker of dairy-free soy - or soya in non-American-speak - products. It produces both Alpro drinks and the organic ...

Food allergies are truly a worldwide concern these days. And they affect children in every country and culture in a similar way. A good summ...

Katie Smith, the Food Editor of the Toledo Blade , wote an article with some good advice for children and parents about working with schoo...

Most people know that Dannon yogurt is from France. Or is originally from France. Or Spain. And started making yogurt in the 1940s. Or earli...

There are more non-dairy and lactose-reduced summer frozen treats out there than I can get to. Fortunately, the Washington Post has a nice a...

If you check the archives of Planet Lactose you can't help but be struck, pardon the pun, by the fact that the posts abruptly stop on Au...

The website of the magazine Better Homes and Gardens has an article on Treating and Preventing Gas that is excerpted from the Harvard Heal...

Somebody had to be the first one to identify and name the reactions that are the result of allergies, rather than the million and one other ...

OK, one more non-dairy frozen dessert item. Marcia and Tom Blackwell run Blackwell's Organic LLC, maker of "soy gelato and fruit so...

I'd walk a mile for a camel… milk ice cream cone. Maybe farther, since it's only being introduced in the United Arab Emirates. Al Ai...

That killer heat wave may have broken, but summer's a long way from over. Want something cold? How about Tasti D-Lite frozen dessert . I...

Homeopathy is bunk. It's a fraud, a scam, a hoax, a means to make money from people in need. Spare me your letters about how studies hav...

There are only a dozen or so cookbooks featuring lactose-free recipes. I know them all. I have them listed on my website, in my Milk-Free Bo...

The rabidly anti-milk activist group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is back in the news, but not in a way they like. L...

A quick follow-up to last Friday's post, Breastfed Babies Avoid Allergies . In that post I reported on research that said that breastfee...

Oh to be in Michigan now that summer's here. Battle Creek, more specifically. Ice Cream Ecstasy, to be precise. The Battle Creek Enquire...

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...