Welcome to Foods Matter – the
resource for 'free from' living...
The web's fastest growing 'free from' site. 'Free from' food, 'free from' recipes, 'free from' nutrition, 'free from' personal care – articles, the very latest research, links and forums – all together in one easy-to-navigate location.
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• FreeFrom Foods and Recipes •
Hundreds of links to new and established freefrom food products and producers, articles on freefrom food and over 300 freefrom recipes. Read more.
The FreeFrom Food Awards 2010 – the UK's only industry award for excellence in freefrom food. Click here for the shortlist. Presentation 21st April.
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• FreeFrom Personal and Skincare •
A new section of the website which features new skincare products, manufacturers, retailers and support groups, articles and research reports. Read more.
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• Articles and Research •
The backbone of the site – hundreds of articles and thousands of research reports on the causes and management of allergy and intolerance and the many health conditions related to them. Read more or look at our recently added articles and recently added research reports.
New Articles
• Histamine intolerance. It feels like allergy, it looks like allergy, but it’s not an allergy! Dr Janice Joneja investigates a little recognised but very distressing intolerance and suggests how it may be managed. Read more...
• Rice and arsenic – what is going on? In the first of two articles nutritionist Micki Rose considers the cruel irony that, for allergic people trying to avoid dairy products and wheat/gluten, eating more rice is increasing their exposure to the poison, arsenic. Read more...
• Towards a better understanding of homeopathy: molecular genetic discoveries. An interesting article by Dr Peter Kay describing recent studies that show that, in the laboratory, highly diluted and dynamized (potentized) substances appear to be able to activate beneficial genes and affect gene expression. Read more.
• Caterers being held to account for reactions resulting from their failure to provide allergic customers with 'safe' food. Read more...
• How a cough syrup can kill you – the hidden menace that can cause death during surgery. Dr Harry Morrow Brown lifts the lid on an ongoing scandal. Read more...
• Probiotics, the 'friendly' bacteria: side-lined healers – John Scott reviews research which suggests that probiotics can be effective not only in digestive conditions but in fighting colds and 'flu, eczema, infant colic and chronic fatigue syndrome. Read more...
• Water medicine. Dr Fereydoon Batmanghelidj believes that dehydration lies at the root of most chronic and acute 21st century maladies. Read more...
• When is a wheat allergy not a wheat allergy? Following the recent furore in the UK press over the 'millions' who are 'self-diagnosing wheat allergy', Michelle Berriedale- Johnson suggests that, once again, the press may have been being gulled by the flour industry. Read more...
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