From a life of fast food and excess, Lucy has turned a corner and now relishes the challenge of living gluten and dairy-free… For 21 years I lead a normal, but very unhealthy lifestyle. I was happy, but just after my 21st birthday I began to feel tired, bloated, nauseous and my stomach would make […]
Nutritional therapist reveals challenges of raising kids in a gluten-free household… I met my husband, Robert, in 2001 and for as long as I can remember he suffered from fatigue and mouth ulcers. He would scratch or damage the inside of his mouth while eating and resign himself to the fact he would soon develop a […]
Founder of app Biteappy, Caroline Oldham, faces her challenges head on and makes the world a better place… My free-from journey started when I was in my late teens. I have always been a very active person and I love working out at the gym. However, I was referred to a specialist in Leeds as […]
Helen shows how learning to live with an intolerance can be deeply rewarding… As far back to the age of 17 I can remember having a sore stomach. The pain would normally come after eating, although I hadn’t realised it was just food causing me the pain. I was always a worrier, so I put […]
Singing soul sensation Mari Wilson explains how she used to have to have two dresses on standby when performing – all dependant on whether she’d had a gluten reaction… I’d been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 1978 when I was in my twenties and have been on insulin ever since. Shortly afterwards, I also […]
Free-From Heaven reader and indie writer Kelly Wilson shares her free-from story, and how she manages her IBS symptoms… By Kelly Wilson (www.kellywilson.moonfruit.com) My life train has scraped along the tracks of realisation. I did not have any idea that there was any remotely serious problem until I was seventeen. This was not a result […]
Recently diagnosed Coeliac and newbie blogger Jo Knowles is on a mission not to let her gluten and dairy-free diagnosis rule her eating habits. We’ve experienced the ups and the downs of her first Free From dinner parties with her. Here she shares her experience of hosting her fifth party, let’s see how it goes… Round 5 […]
Foods You Can founder Bunmi Scott reveals her Free-From Story… Exercise the answer? In the autumn of 2004, I became very unwell and was admitted into hospital.I was 24 at the time and hadn’t ever really been ill before. Having finished university a year or so before, I returned to my home town and decided […]
Recently diagnosed Coeliac and newbie blogger Jo Knowles is on a mission not to let her gluten and dairy-free diagnosis rule her eating habits. We’ve experienced the ups and the downs of her first Free From dinner parties with her. Here she shares her experience of hosting her fourth party, let’s see how it goes… Round 4 – Summer […]
Recently diagnosed Coeliac and newbie blogger Jo Knowles is on a mission not to let her gluten and dairy-free diagnosis rule her eating habits. We’ve experienced the ups and the downs of her first Free From dinner parties with her. Here she shares her experience of hosting her third party, let’s see how it goes… Round Three […]