Travelling with an allergy can often be a daunting experience, and going to new places, particularly abroad, can present new challenges. Allergy UK shows us how to take the strain from the plane… Flying On planes, the largest risk is often for food allergy sufferers, as meals and snacks provided by airlines and food brought […]
Category: Features
For all things gluten-free, read the latest features from Gluten-Free Heaven. Featuring interviews, tips and advice, and round-ups of the latest trends.
Extremely well cultured: How to make your own dairy-free yoghurt at home
Charlotte Willis takes us on a journey to create our own perfect dairy-free yoghurts… We stir it in, dollop it on, spoon it out and sprinkle over it. We even drink it out of tiny over-priced bottles! As a nation, we have fallen in love with this traditional Turkish ingredient, which on paper, sounds like […]
Salt: The silent assassin
Excess salt in the diet is a major international health issue, as too much salt (sodium chloride) can increase the risk of high blood pressure, which, in turn, is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke… Research from LoSalt shows that although excess dietary salt is an easily modifiable risk factor for high […]
Healthy eating but still piling on the pounds? Here’s why…
Discover why you are not losing the weight you thought you should be… First of all. Eating healthily is important for far more than managing weight – so keep doing it! But if you find that all your efforts in healthy eating are not helping you to lose weight, then Dr Sally Norton, NHS weight loss […]
The truth about the paleo diet
Health and fitness professional Jo Searle shows us how to go back to our ancestral roots and eat the way we were biologically designed to… The Paleo Diet has been one of the most popular diets in recent years, but why are so many people abandoning their usual diet regimes and opting for a way […]
10 ways to get a coeliac to fall in love with you
Ali Walsh, from The Local Bakehouse shows why going gluten-free will be the most romantic thing you ever do… Love. A deep affection that takes time to form. Or only 3 seconds when you realise your new boyfriend has recreated a Chinese restaurant menu without gluten (because you’re coeliac). This actually happened to a friend of […]
Exploring the science behind gluten sensitivities and intolerances
Charlotte Willis delves deep into the scientific world to get to grips with how and why gluten rears its ugly head, and what we can do to relieve the symptoms of an unexpected gluten-sensitivity attack… I think we’ve all been in a similar boat at some point in our journeys with food intolerances. You disclose your […]
Allergies vs intolerance – What’s the difference?
Nikki Wallis explains how one in five UK adults believe food intolerances and allergies are the same… Nearly one in five people believe food intolerances and food allergies are the same, when in fact they are two very different things, new research has revealed. YorkTest Laboratories, Europe’s market leader in testing for food reactions, conducted […]
In the spotlight… Nature’s Path Gluten-Free
Starting with just 7 US dollars and some wise words from his father Aaran Stephens has taken Nature’s Path from a pioneering restaurant to the nation’s aisles… Nature’s Path is a fiercely independent, family-owned business that has been committed to producing organic, gluten-free food in a sustainable way for over 30 years. All their products […]
Exploring the nutritional benefits of seeds
Charlotte Willis examines the many nutritional and punchy benefits of the humble seed… Exploring the nutritional benefits of seeds Call me biased, standing here at five-foot-nothing, but my twenty-something years have accumulated the great knowledge that good things, well they truly do come in compact sizes. Nature compacts its nutrient-dense wonders into small, rounded and […]