Planet Lactose

Many people who take statin drugs to help lower their cholesterol suffer from muscle pains that the drugs cause. An article in the Jerusalem...

The ever-busy Alisa Fleming of GoDairyFree.org has a new promotion happening at her site. Here's the whole press release: Las Vegas, NV...

Lactose-Free congratulations go to Valarie Watson, who was recently selected as one of 10 finalists in the dessert category of Johnson &...

Is there any actual evidence that the growth hormone rBST (recombinant Bovine SomatoTropin -- also known as rBGH: recombinant Bovine Growth ...

Here's an important new study from the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (published on-line ahead of print, doi: 10.1016/j.jac...

I don't know what it is about the English and their teeth. It's a stereotype that all the late-night comics make fun of. But when yo...

That headline's a great line, taken from Allergy Alert by the Malaysian Society of Allergy and Immunology (MSAI) in conjunction with th...

A year's supply of fudge. And I'm talking about dairy-free fudge. It's not for me. I'm on a permanent healthy diet, remember...

I recently received a question often asked, so I thought I would repeat the answer here. What is the recommended dose of lactase for childre...

Connie Sarros was forced to develop gluten-free recipes when her father was diagnosed with celiac disease in 1993. Sarros began experimentin...

The Mayo Clinic has an excellent short article titled Preventing food allergy in children up on their web site. If you're a parent with...

I'm not sure I'd trust my medical news from a site named DogFlu.ca. At least not medical news about humans. Take the big news about ...

Glurge is that nutty stuff that your so-called friends like to pass around to you via email. It may be sappy, or wild, or outrageous, or jus...

The study referenced in Monday's post, DNA Lactose Surprise? Not to Me. , has continued to cause comment around the globe. First, let me...

I hope there are vegans who read this blog. Vegans with a sense of humor. Amy Sedaris, whose book I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influenc...

Yam Cher Seng, a pharmacist, wrote an article for the New Straits Times that covers a lot of intestinal ground. INTESTINAL problems are one...

Big news spreading around the scientific world is an article that isn't even available yet. It's a pre-print - a copy circulated bef...

I often get email similar to the following, so it's time to remind people of some basic definitions. Could you please let me know what...

Kim Koeller "has spent the last 23 years eating 80% of her meals in restaurants around the world while managing over a dozen food relat...

The public level of understanding about lactose intolerance has increased about a million per cent since I first heard the term in 1978. Tha...