Guerrillas watch this link:
Scroll to o.10.42 Listen to how the chef eats pizza and pasta. If you are as appalled by the lack of info by the BBC to bust the myth that doing so is OK for Coeliacs then lodge a complaint as we have and our facebook fans have...
Such programmes do nothing to raise awaress of CD and only do it and our requests for GF a dis-service!
they could undo a lot of years of good campaigning work, with throw-away comments like that. Have complained
Did he say it is okay to eat pasta for a couple of weeks after going gluten free for several months? Who is his medical advisor? Could he please share his amazing knowledge of Coeliac Disease with the rest of the medical proffession and all the Coeliac organisations and dieticians, because I would love to be able to eat anything with gluten in it for two weeks. It would certainly make holidays bliss, just saving up your gluten allowance for the two weeks you go on holiday, then having a big gluten blowout!
I couldn't get the link to BBC complaints to work, but I found their complaints site and did it anyway.
Then I watched the clip again...
He said, "I can't cut it (gluten) out completeley because the body just rejects it when you do have it."
So his two weeks of eating huge amounts of pasta and pizza every three months mean that he isn't cutting gluten out completely, therefore he keeps his body in a state of preparedness by bingeing on gluten now and again.
I reckon we definitely need a follow up on this radical new coeliac diet technique.
Phil he seems to justify this approach as he's a chef - and he can't resist gluten!
AMAZING - tosh. Instead of embracing the opportunity to cater and embrace CD he's saying that he only sticks to good quality gluten.
Read these links and comments on our facebook wall. We're also contemplating complaining direct to his agent. Perhaps he hasn't got the Coeliac advice from his gastro that he should have. Yet either way the BBC seem very naive in allowing such comments on TV without mentioning what CD is or why people apart from Celeb chefs (aka us in the real world) have to be so strict!
Read and enjoy the Q&A here
swellcityguide.com/2009/03/...
here's his agent:
deborahmckenna.com/contact....
We'll be skipping any trips to his restaurants...Or maybe we should turn up en masse and demand a GF menu?! The mind boggles at the comments he makes..
I was shocked by his comments and the lack of interjection by anyone else about how serious CD is and how you can't just binge on it every 3 months!
I've emailed a complaint to the BBC and to his agent.
Watched the program this week and there was no apology or warning to coeliacs despite the complaints we made to the BBC. I think I will stop paying my licence fee every three months just to get the BBC used to having to work with less money.
There's an idea Phil! We urge anyone who is unhappy with the BBC's response so far to complain online to OFCOM the media regulator, on the grounds of 'harmful and offensive broadcasting' and 'misleading, inaccurate' broadcasting (although these latter two areas mainly fall to the BBC to remedy).
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Call to ban prescriptions for gluten free foods - would it make a difference to you?
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