Allergies and Food Intolerance
An allergy occurs when your body has an abnormal reaction to something
that you've breathed, eathen, touched or been injected with. The resulting
symptoms can be (but are not limited to) itchy eyes, sneezing & runny
nose, wheezing & coughing, skin rash, or upset stomach & diarrhea.
A severe allergic reaction requires immediate medical attention.
Many people don't understand food intolerance, and often confuse it with
food allergy. Because the symptoms can be vague and not life threatening,
adult sufferers are sometimes not taken seriously or worse, discounted
as hypochondriacs.
A food intolerance is when your body
cannot properly digest, or fully process certain foods.
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A food allergy response is autoimmune: the immune response of the body
against any substance normally present in the body (tissues, cells, or
cell components).
Food allergy symptoms typically occur suddenly, with severity. They can
affect the ear, nose, throat & lungs, like nasal congestion and asthma.
Or they can affect the skin, as in hives or rashes. They can also present
as gastro-intestinal disorders like nausea and vomiting. In a few cases,
a life-threatening Anaphylactic shock can be caused. This required immediate
treatment in a hospital emergency room.
Respiratory and skin reactions usually happen quickly (within minutes),
while gastro-intestinal symptoms can take longer (hours or even days).
This makes the diagnosis very difficult. Symptoms may then continue into
adulthood without being properly addressed.
Food allergies and intolerace manifest differently in different people.
Where a parent might experiences eczema, their child may experience asthma
in response to the same, or different allergens.
Here, we focus on food intolerance, otherwise known as food sensitivity.
There are dozens of symptoms that can be attributed to food intolerance.
And when left untreated, food intoleraces lead to chronic symptoms, and
serious diseases.
Poorly Diagnosed, Therefore Mistreated
Because sypmtoms of food intolerance frequently present themselves very
similar to other diseases, they're often misdiagnosed. And many people
have more than one food intolerance, further complicating the diagnoses.
Your body's reaction to foods can take place up to 48 hours after eating,
so it's difficult to connect the effect to the cause. This may lead to
mistreating the symptoms with over-the-counter medications, rather than
finding the cause.
Symptoms of Food Intolerance
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Gastro-Intestinal
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Serious Health Risks
Many symptoms of food intolerance are easily tolerated, such as itching
skin, mild diarrhea, coughing, tiredness, mouth ulcers, stomach bloating,
headache.
It is important to understand that if left untreated, food intolerance
can seriously comproise your general health, and put you at an increased
risk of many serious diseases like diabetes, cancer, dementia, obesity,
arthritis & osteoporosis, anemia, Celiac Disease and Crohn's Disease.
Easily Remedied
When properly managed, diet changes can eliminate your suffering, and
take you back to full health. The offending food must first be identified
with an elimination diet.
The most common sources of food intolerance are:
(listed in order of most common)
Dairy
Wheat
Gluten (wheat)
Yeast
Sugar
Treatment of Food Intolerances
1. Identify the Food
2. Avoid the Food
3. Revitalize Your Immune System
Identify the Food, with The Elimination Diet
The elimination diet is quite simple, and should be supervised by your
health care provider. It will last a few weeks, and involves removing
specific foods (or ingredients) from your diet, that you and your doctor
suspect may be causing your symptoms.
Caution:
Before making significant changes in your diet, always seek the advice
of your doctor. If you randomly remove foods from your diet, you may
not have a balanced diet and lack some nutrients, causing other health
problems. A dietitian can help you plan meals that are healthy and nutritious,
while eliminating the suspicious food source.
You will be required to keep a record of all the foods you eat, and
any symptoms you experience. Carefully read food labels, and inquire
about food preparation methods when dining out. This record will enable
you and doctor to identify the food causing trouble.
Following the elimination diet and identification of the particular
food that causes you grief, your doctor will ask you to gradually reintroduce
the eliminated foods, one at a time. This process helps link symptoms
to specific foods.
This is not a fool-proof method. Psychological and physical factors
can affect the results. For example, if you think you're sensitive to
a food, a response could occur that may not represent food intolerance.
You will be successful in eliminating your symptoms.
You'll have improved resistance to disease and renewed
vitality.
Help for All Allergies and Food Intolerances
For More Immediate Relief,
Revitalize Your Natural Immune System
with the following supplements:
Probiotics
To aid digestion, promote natural immunity & resistance to diseases.
Crucial for regaining and maintaining your health and vitality.
Superfoods
High amouts of proper, absorbable, life giving nutrition.
Your immune system can naturally work efficiently to heal and maintain
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Immune FX
A robust immune system is instrumental in fighting disease and keeping
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complex, to further galvanize your immune response.
Amino Acids
Amino acid supplementation will provide your body with an essential
foundation for health. They are the building blocks of systemic proteins,
which are present in all your body tissues, including skin, nails, hair,
blood, bone and brain cells. Thousands of different systemic proteins
are constantly being manufactured from 20 different amino acids. Your
body can manufacture 10 of these amino acids, the other 10 are considered
essential, meaning they must be acquired from your diet.
Enzymes
A critical energy that runs your entire body. Without them, you couldn't
digest or absorb food, all your cellular functioning would stop.
Minerals
Allow all activities in your body to happen efficiently. They are required
for all metabolic processes, proper composition of your body fluids,
the formation of your blood & bones, and they are also critical
for healthy nerve function.
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For Long Term Relief & Maintenance
Of Your Health and Vitality
we recommend the following steps:
1. Cleanse and Detoxify
Regular cleansing of your body will begin healing of discomforts
and diseases, and bring you into a more vibrant state of health. Every
system in your body will function more efficiently.
2. Nutrition
Support your body with proper nutritional supplements,
to heal and maintain a state of health. With adequate nutrition, your
body can efficiently absorb nutrients, and eliminate toxins. You'll
have in a healthy immune system that can heal and be free of pain and
disease.
3. Balancing Your Body's pH
A balanced pH in your body is a critical factor for a
healthy internal environment and immune system. Healing or remission
of chronic illness takes place only when your body fluids are restored
to a normal pH.
4. Care For Your Space, Mind and Soul
To be healthy, you must be in harmony with your world.
Fill yourself and your space with love. The way you feel, emotionally,
mentally and spiritually, has a direct impact on your physical well
being.
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The Prevalence of Food Intolerance
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Food intolerance are responsible for unnecessary suffering in millions
of people. Previously, it was thought to be rare, and now it's quite
prevalent.
If you are one of the 75%
of people who are affected to some extent
by food intolerance, it makes sense to investigate - doesn't it?
More About Food Intolerance
Worsen With Age
Food intolerance can turn up later in life. People are frequently surprised
to discover they are lactose intolerant or sensitive to sugar or gluten,
when they are 20, 30, 40 years or older.
Any symptom of ill-health that you may experience will worsen as you
age. Unfortunately another effect of leaving ill-health untreated is
to exacerbate other conditions like heart disease, liver, kidney and
lung dysfunction, amongst other things.
Hereditary Predisposition
Food intolerance tends to be inherited from your family. Celiac Disease
(or Gluten sensitivity) occurs in 10% of all first degree relatives
of Celiacs (that is siblings, parents & children).
Triggers of Food Intolerance
Serious stress, both good and bad (births & deaths, divorce, sickness,
new career), can trigger food intolerance. The tendency was always there,
and the body had been compensating. But high stress situations can easily
allow the intolerance to appear.
Food intolerance is common, and may be difficult
to diagnose.
Symptoms are a signal from your body.
Don't ignore the signal.
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