Planet Lactose

Back in the early 1980s, about the time I acquired my first computer, I would sometimes visit a friend who was hip deep in the computer worl...

I have absolutely no idea what is being said here , but congratulations to newly minted PhD, Jeremy Stewart MacLeod. Jeremy Stewart McLeod -...

This must be some of that dry British humor that Americans don't get. From CatererSearch.com . Chef Sue Widdicombe has launched a range ...

Last year, Lactaid featured Hispanic actress Angelica Vale in ads targeted at the large lactose intolerant Hispanic market. This year they...

Frozen yogurt's hot, hot, hot , if I say so myself. So with a gourmet frogurt store coming to every corner near you, what niche will be ...

Russian Kosher lactose-free sweets advertised on the Internet. Talk about words you'd thought you'd never see in the same sentence. ...

There's still time for people to hop a plane over to Baltimore, the site of the 15th annual Food Allergy Conference to be held by FAAN, ...

Eating Right Never Tasted So Good -- Healthy Cooking is a new magazine that offers recipe makeovers, healthy menu planning ideas, advice f...

David E. Gumpert's article Got Raw Milk? (single page version , from the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine , is a major treatment of the subj...

Every few months I post something to remind people about or alert new readers to what I consider to be the only other really important lacto...

Did you know that neither the U.S. nor the European Union (EU) closely regulates arsenic in foods? Maybe you thought that nobody did so beca...

Allergists Dr. Andrew Clark and Dr. Shuaib Nasser provided a valuable summary of information on injectable adrenaline devices (IADs) or epin...

Lactagen, that most controversial reliever of lactose intolerance symptoms, has announced that it has overhauled its website. Lactagen ® , ...

I've posted numerous times about the frequent presence of lactose as a filler, binder, or coating for pills, whether prescription or ove...

The annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology just finished in Philadelphia, and they already have a press...

Dr. Peter Nieman writes for The Calgary Herald, found on Canada.com a useful reminder for mothers who may need to stop breastfeeding their ...

Mary Meehan-Strub gives good advice in her Coulee Consumer column, carried by a number of papers in Wisconsin, like the one in Onalaska. (Ju...

Really. Does everything have to be green for St. Patrick's Day? Isn't the beer enough? And the stuff at the far back of the refriger...

Dairy-free foods are a niche market, always a precarious place for any company to find itself in. Over the years I can't begin to estima...

Jelly Belly has 50 "official" flavors of jelly beans that they keep producing all year long. Then there are the "rookie"...