Planet Lactose

The market for kid's foods is estimated to be more than $300 billion worldwide. That's approximately 300 billion times as much as I ...

Maxine Frith of The Statesman has a nice summary of sugar and the role it plays as a food in her article, Sweet Energy . Sugar is a carboh...

I gave you a bunch of links collected by Alisa Fleming, at the GoDairyFree site , in my Nondairy Halloween Treats post. Life has changed si...

Dovid Rotshtein, a copywriter over at Ganeden Biotech, Inc., the maker of the Digestive Advantage line of probiotic products for people with...

The Multi-Lingual Phrase Passport, part of the Let's Eat Out! Your Passport to Living Gluten and Allergy Free series, has won a Best Boo...

Slim Fast , the makers of diet "meal replacement" shakes, has announced a lactose-free variety called Easy to Digest. It comes in ...

I was idly flipping through the coupon section of Sunday's paper, when my eye was caught by an advertisement for new Jergens Shea Butter...

Alisa Fleming, from the great GoDairyFree site, sent me this collection of online stores that sell dairy-free candies to allow kids with la...

At last: a sane, informative post. Jarett Bies of the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader posted a good article that not only listed a variety of alte...

Dogs are lactose intolerant. So are cats. So are all adult mammals, except for a small percentage of humanity who are mutants. But those hum...

Is the moon full? Why, yes, I believe full moon occurred on October 6, just a few days ago. Maybe that's why the loons are appearing onl...

This may not make your day, but mine sure was brightened by the discovery that the Dutch Company Friesland Foods Domo has purchased the lact...

You can find all sorts of idiotic nonsense about health in general and milk in particular on the Internet, but to see it come out of the mou...

Wow. Every once in a while a scientific discovery comes out of the blue and suggests a possibility that no one ever thought of. Here's t...

Here's a follow up to my earlier posts Functional Nondairy Makes Europe Healthier and Even Healthier Yogurt . The range of low-lactose ...

A British magazine called Ethical Consumer has firm ideas on what makes for good products. At their web site , the company says: Ethical Co...

Trick-or-treating is more trick than treat for kids with a food allergy. Bah. What a way to trivialize a serious subject. But you just know ...

We've all heard that the poor get sicker than the more well-off, and we've heard that too many people in the country don't under...

Spinach has been in the news more than since Popeye was a midshipman. The Food and Drug Administration issued the current warning and produc...