Planet Lactose

A major study just out in the journal Pediatrics (Rudders, Susan Pediatrics , April 2010; vol 125: pp: e711-e718) has been making headlines...

Over at PerishableFoods.com I found a press release that turns out to be sunnier than most. Stremicks Heritage Foods is relaunching it’s 8t...

Geri Maria Harris wrote about the Top 5 Vegan-Friendly Foods Even Carnivores Will Love for a blog in the Houston Press. We all know that wh...

I received this question recently: Are there any canned lactose free evaporated or condensed milk products? If not, do you have a recipe on...

The Draft Report summarized the presentations that looked at Question 2 ( Weaver ; Heaney ; and Wilt ) as follows: 2. What are the health ou...

You want embarrassing? Say you have a major federal agency, one that has responsibilities for a major, crucial, fraction of the nation's...

Scientists are nothing is not methodical. After examining the consequences of dairy avoidance in children, you couldn't have found a spo...

For the next three posts, we'll be in Section 2 of NIH state-of-the-state presentations on Lactose Intolerance. What are the health outc...

Long delayed, the announcement of my book finally appeared locally. Planet Lactose was today's selection in the Rochester Democrat ...

The Draft Report summarized the presentations that looked at Question 1 ( Tishkoff ; Wooten ; Wood ; and Wilt ) as follows: 1. What Is the P...

Take a deep breath. You're about to be socked with the longest title and longest list of authors of the whole conference. Evidence-base...

Back from a short lunch we plunged directly into more presentations. Aging: Lactose Intolerance and Calcium Absorption in the Elderly Richar...

The Since Your Asked column in the Medford, OR, MailTribune got a softball question and hit, well, a weak single. I was recently diagnosed ...

The always-busy, coming-up-with-new-sites, allergy organization FAAN (the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network) has yet another one, the F...

Allergiesandme.com , an online store offering selections of allergen free foods, held a recipe contest last month. The Grand Prize winning s...

With Easter and Passover approaching (don't look at me: the only holidays whose dates I know are the Fourth of July and Cinco de Mayo), ...

While we're taking a lunch break from the series of LI Conference posts, I'm going to catch up with some of the news about nutrition...

Bethesda, MD, was still recovering from the giant snowstorms of the previous weeks, with sidestreets lined with cars that nobody had bothere...

The pattern of lactose tolerance varies widely around the globe. People from northern Europe and their descendents have the highest percenta...

With the overview talks done, we finally get to the meat of the conference. The first section was devoted to the question: What Is the Preva...