Planet Lactose

Suffice it to say that I'm a believer in western medicine, sometimes called allopathic medicine. Alternative medicine or complementary m...

Look, I have sympathy for newspaper reporters. Every day they're sent out to cover a story on a subject they know absolutely nothing abo...

The NO-MILK (Casein/Lactose/Milk-Free) List is a creature from the early days of the Internet. Before there was much to the World Wide Web, ...

Who needs supplements of vitamins and minerals? Family practitioner Dr. Deirdra Greathouse, with Provena Saint Joseph's Medical Group of...

The kerfluffle started by Allergy UK's moronic poll alleging to prove that one-third of the total British population has food intoleranc...

Support groups for people with lactose intolerance are quite rare. I haven't heard of more than a couple over the years. But one's f...

Yesterday I posted a report, How Sick Are You, Brits? , about a disturbing poll conducted by Allergy UK. In a survey of 5,200 people the gro...

No wonder you lost your empire, Britannia. Your people are too feeble to get about in their daily lives. Or at least that's the impressi...

For reasons that passeth understanding, U.S. consumers cannot purchase lactase drops any longer. The drops are still available in Canada and...

You don't have to believe me when I tell you that you can and should drink milk if you want to and can get around the symptoms, no matte...

Jane Clarke is blurbed as one of the foremost nutritionists in the U.K. This worries me. (I can't find any record of her formal qualific...

I wrote in my book, Milk Is Not for Every Body: Living with Lactose Intolerance , that colic was not caused by lactose intolerance. Still tr...

Labels on commercial food products in the U.S. now have to state in plain language whether potential allergens like dairy, egg, or wheat are...

I'm always baffled about how substitutes work in recipes, and let's face it, most people - even cooks - haven't tried most subst...

I'm an sf writer, so it's rare that in the real world I run across something that sounds as if it came directly from the pages of a ...

Jessica Peralta of the McClatchy Newspapers gives a solid list of tips for people with digestive difficulties in an article titled Stomach t...

The American Dialect Society does an annual Word of the Year competition, to recognize coinages and new usages. They're way out on the c...

Allergies are sparking some of the most interesting and creative food research. The need and desire to reduce allergic reactions, especially...

I was over at YouTube and it suddenly occurred to me to wonder what would happen if I plugged "lactose" into their search engine. ...

Calvin Trillan has been publishing wonderful wry, witty pieces on all subjects, especially about food, for over 30 years. His new book, Abou...