Planet Lactose

What is Heather Mills doing with her divorce money? Good things, so stop the jokes right now. A press release told the world that Mills acq...

Chocolate. How do you answer a question about chocolate without getting so distracted that you forget the subject? (I make sure that I don...

Simple questions deserve simple answers. How I wish that were true. So many of the simple questions I get can only be answered by "mayb...

I'm doing mostly questions this week, some new, some old. I like the questions that make me think, and can't just answered by a yes ...

The huge controversy in the autism community over whether the use of GFCF (gluten-free, casein-free) diets can help autistic children rages ...

We've all had one of those "why didn't I think of that?" moments. I had another just now, reading the news. The article wa...

I get excited whenever I find a good article on the Internet, one that is factually correct and contains a complete set of information, not ...

Many if not most major businesses support charities, do community work, or lend their names to events. Many if not most businesses in the sp...

Birth control pills are normally a series of 28 tiny pills in a case. The first 21 pills contain the active ingredient that prevents ovulati...

There are two major types of food allergy tests. A blood test checks to see whether or not you have a particular antibody called IgE. Skin p...

In a sign of how quickly and incredibly change can come to a society, a popular restaurant in St. Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, formerly P...

After yesterday's diatribe, I though I'd show you the other half of the story. You can get real cheese, made from real cow's mil...

I don't get it. I realize I seem to start a lot of posts this way. So either this says a lot about me or a lot about the world. I'm ...

Here's an email I received with confusion whose source I never could quite figure out. I'm a diabetic, so I really limit the carbs I...

I don't even remember what sent me to the doctor. Not even my doctor, but the after-hours emergency clinic you can go to when your regul...

One of the first posts I ever made on Planet Lactose was on the extremely apropos Food Sensitivities Translation Cards services that, as th...

One of the best things that non-dairy frozen desserts have going for them is that they are almost always lower calorie than the dense-with-b...

I've seen several questions pop up about Stonyfield's O'Soy Soy Yogurt . Although it's a soy yogurt and none of the ingredie...

I hope you all had a change to read my post on Nutripuncture - The Ultimate in Pseudoscience on Wednesday. I found the press release that w...

To end the week's run on press releases you should ignore I go back to the old reliable, homeopathy. I did a warning about a homeopathic...