Among the restaurant choices in Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, the restaurant chain Pret A Manger (French for ‘ready to eat’) seems to offer upscale fresh fast food to eat while waiting for one’s connecting flight. Being a corporation based in the United Kingdom with most of its ~530 stores located there, some of us […]
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Body Weight and Allergic Conditions: A Difficult Topic
September brings the start of another academic year. After a relaxing summer in the sun, adults often feel a vicarious urge in the autumn to learn new things or to change habits. Whether it is now or with the New Year’s resolutions of December-January, the topic that is among the top tier of things […]
The Promise Is Not Reality Quite Yet: How The Microbiome Has Caught Our Attention—Part 2
In March, I wrote that the view of the role of intestinal bacteria in allergic diseases has evolved from disdain and scorn in the 1990s to current ‘rational exuberance’ (to paraphrase a term from Alan Greenspan—former chairperson of the Federal Reserve). Health care professionals and scientists refer to the intestinal bacteria as the ‘microbiome’—the community […]