Planet Lactose

Hold the presses, please! The very first book on lactose intolerance aimed at children has finally arrived. (I was holding this good news un...

New Zealand. It's given us the Lord of the Rings movies, the Flight of the Conchords, and lactose. And the lactose may be more ubiquitou...

When I first learned I was lactose intolerant, in 1978, I had never heard the words before. Didn't know what lactose was. Milk, well, mi...

Estimates are that only one million Americans follow a vegan diet. That's a small market by most standards and the reason why only a few...

Every few weeks a new study emerges from clinical physicians trying to desensitize children with allergies by giving them tiny amounts of th...

It makes my life easier when I get to quote from myself. I have a page on my website titled Tests for Lactse Intolerance and I'm going ...

Pat Gilbers sent me an email with exciting news for the lactose intolerant. He's making Lacteeze brand lactase drops available in the U....

Yet another major publication has weighed in against raw milk proponents, sneakily using actual science and scientists to combat beliefs and...

One more post from last week's annual meeting of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, following...

Another interesting result from the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology , held last week in Washington....

I try to avoid all human contact, emerging only into the light of the phosphors as I type, but by the jokes on the Internet it must be Girl ...

The Jewish festival of Passover, which starts on April 9 this year (Hurray, I'm early for writing a timely article for a change) can be ...

About two years ago I posted about the Diallertest Dairy Allergy Skin Test using the Viaskin patch from DBV Technologies as an easier mean...

The last time I checked I could find only one true dairy-based lactose-free yogurt. That was Continental Yogurt, made by Continental Culture...

What could be more appropriate for a St. Patrick's Day than an Irish Soda Bread recipe? Not just any recipe, of course, but a dairy-free...

A. Anderson is another is the long line of mothers of children with food allergies who plunged into research on the subject and wound up wri...

If there's one thing I've got to be rooting for, it's a team of math-science whiz kids. A neat article by Anne W. Semmes in the ...

Remember when vegan food used to bland, uninteresting, and distinctly non-ethnic? Those days are long gone. Each month appears to serve up a...

Siel Ju, a lifestyle writer at the Mother Nature Network , has a massive case of ignorance about our corner of the world. She just can't...

"Know your enemy" is one of those old adages that live up to their reps as sage advice. I try to preach knowledge and understandin...