Planet Lactose

I'm been poking around more looking for other new cookbooks I haven't seen. That found me Donna Klein's Vegan Italiano: Meat-fre...

Cupcakes? Did anybody say cupcakes? Even better, a cupcake cookbook that is getting five-star reviews with comments like "Divine, delic...

It all started with a flight attendant being offended by the back of a baby's head. You'll remember the story from October, in which...

I'm a bit late getting to this, but I take Business Week magazine out of the library. The cover story of their Oct. 16, 2006 issue was ...

An allergy happens when a protein causes antibodies to form in the body. The next time the body encounters that protein, the antibodies swin...

Vitasoy may have made the first splash ( see It's After Halloween So Time for Christmas Nondairy but they aren't the only ones putt...

One of the hardest dairy products to find a nondairy substitute for if you're lactose intolerant or have dairy allergies is evaporated m...

How many times do I have to write some variation of this article? Yet another survey of physicians, this time in Europe, found that "Br...

Mark Pimentel, MD, FRCPC is Director of the Gastrointestinal Motility Program and Laboratory at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Pimentel al...

Here's a recent question emailed to me that been asked often enough to warrant a feature here: I have had the typical symptoms of L.I. a...

A study presented at the 52nd annual scientific meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology made the strongest connec...

Lactose-free milk comes in just about every variety that regular milk does - fat-free, 1% lowfat, 2% lowfat, whole, calcium-fortified, choco...

From Alisa Fleming at www.GoDairyFree.org . Conscientious friends, teachers, hosts, and family members can now serve, and indulge in, worry ...

MedicalNewsToday.com hyped up the the latest research presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immuno...

Would a lactose-free baby formula help a baby with eczema? No. The two things have no connection. Only a dairy protein allergy would be like...

While I'm reminding people out there that nondairy covers a lot of territory, let me also put in a kind word for low-lactose sources of ...

No, that's not an oxymoron. The ice creams in question are ice "creams," made using nondairy "milks." Agnes L. is a ...

The stores are already bulging with Christmas decorations and last year's leftover wrapping paper on sale. So it's time to bring out...

Is this the first organic lactose free milk in Canada? I don't know, but the press release claims it is. You can find the full text of t...

The bacteria that eat the undigested lactose that the reaches the colon are a special breed, so to speak. And that helps explain why a colon...