Dr John Hunter is a Consultant Physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge and a recognised authority on the subject of food allergy and intolerance. He developed an interest in food in relation to diseases of the gut as a result of the need of the many sufferers of Irritable Bowel Syndrome attending his outpatients' clinic. He has contributed over a hundred research papers to major medical journals including The Lancet, Nature and The British Medical Journal.