Whether social media glorifies the gluten-free diet as a fad or a trend, Molly Buszard believes that any publicity is good publicity when it comes to raising the awareness of coeliac disease… If you type #glutenfree into any social media site, thousands of updates and pictures of food appear on your screen. A whole community […]
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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.
12 things we learnt from The Great British Bake Off’s Free-From week
Week 5 of 2015’s The Great British Bake Off saw contestants challenged to create three free-from bakes covering sugar-free cakes, gluten-free pitta breads, and dairy-free ice cream rolls. Here are the top tips we picked up from the show… Sugar-free cakes 1. Citrus fruits such as oranges and lemon work better than apple and […]
20 Top Tips – Gluten-Free on a Budget
Gluten-Free on a Budget – 20 Top Tips By Samantha Stein, aka The Happy Coeliac We’ve all noticed it by now – switching to a gluten-free diet can eat some serious holes in your wallet. Research has shown that gluten-free products are on average 242% more expensive than regular products. But that doesn’t mean you […]
Do we need Dairy?
Do we need Dairy? Nutritional therapist Tea Novo gives us her views on the value of milk and dairy products after the early weaning years… The time has truly come to wipe off the milk moustache – but not in the manner that ad campaigners would have us imagine. In the past year, the dairy […]
Foods That Calm…
Foods that Calm… Nutritionist, chef and personal trainer Will Girling explains how to achieve gut healing by consuming foods and spices that can help calm your stomach in an emergency… Gluten issues happen when the gut’s ability to digest certain antigens (food) becomes impaired causing intolerance or autoimune diseases like coeliac disease. An inflammatory […]
What is the SCD Diet?
What is the SCD Diet and how can it help if you have coeliac disease, IBS, crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis or other gastrointestinal disorders? The Free-From Fairy Vicki Montague explains the purpose and benefits of adopting a SCD Diet… SCD stands for Specific Carbohydrate Diet. It is a well-balanced, normal diet that is highly specific as […]
What is a RAW Food Diet?
What is a RAW Food Diet? Acclaimed blogger Laura Hemmington from The Whole Ingredient shows how adopting a raw food diet can be healthy, less intensive on the environment and beneficial for weight loss… If you’re a keen foodie, trend-follower, or even just an observant shopper, you’re bound to have noticed the recent growth in popularity of raw food diets; […]
Top Tips for Barbecuing Gluten-Free
Author and popular blogger at The Happy Coeliac, Samantha Stein explains how to avoid cross-contamination, stay safe, and enjoy your food! In my ideal world, everyone would eat gluten-free and we would never have to worry about getting ill through cross-contamination. Because of this, I love to host my own events where I can control every aspect of the food that goes on […]
Snacking on the Go
Eat Natural founder Praveen Vijh dismisses the notion that all snacking is bad for you – it’s about the balance… FIRSTLY I GUESS I SHOULD SAY that I am not a nutritionist. I am, however a busy mid-lifer trying to keep an active and balanced life. I have two youngish kids and […]
Paleo Living
Scientific director of Ugg Foods, evolutionary anthropologist, author and public speaker Geoff James Bond lends his wealth of experience to give his opinion on the benefits and myths about living the Paleo way… We know that if you put a cat, a canary and bird seed in a cage, the cat eats the canary and […]