| The number of people in the UK suffering from food | | | | altogether from your diet. Food allergy and food |
| intolerance and allergies is increasing. Scientists believe | | | | intolerance testing is a quick and easy way to find |
| that this is partly because of our love affair with junk | | | | out if there are foods that are making you feel ill. |
| food as well as our exposure to harmful toxins | | | | You can arrange food allergy and food intolerance |
| present in many foods.However food intolerance and | | | | testing online or by visiting your GP. |
| allergies can also be triggered by food that has not | | | | Whilst identifying the culprit substances and |
| been exposed to chemicals. Recent research, for | | | | removing them from your diet is an important |
| instance, suggests that eating peanuts when | | | | starting point, strengthening your immune system is |
| pregnant can cause the baby to develop a peanut | | | | also very important.Since much of the immune |
| allergy.This can have very serious consequences as | | | | system exists within the digestive tract one of the |
| having an allergic reaction to peanuts can cause a | | | | best ways to support it is by ingesting particular |
| person to go into anaphylactic shock. Peanut allergies | | | | vitamins and minerals.Foods that are rich in |
| are often so severe that even a slight trace of | | | | anti-oxidant vitamins A, C and E, such as fresh fruits |
| peanut dust can produce itching, rashes and stomach | | | | and vegetables should be included in your daily diet. |
| problems in sufferers.However, not everyone who | | | | The mineral Selenium can also be a useful inclusion, as |
| has a problem with certain foods is allergic to them. | | | | can garlic. Pycnogenol, a dietary supplement made |
| Sometimes they can simply have a food intolerance | | | | from pine bark extract is high in anti-oxidants and can |
| rather than a food allergy. Food intolerance and food | | | | help alleviate allergic reactions as well as help |
| allergy are both caused by inappropriate immune | | | | cardiovascular health.Food intolerance and food |
| responses to problem foods. However the reaction is | | | | allergies can make you miserable. By identifying |
| very different. Food allergies provoke an immediate | | | | whether you are a sufferer and what foods are |
| and sometimes severe reaction whilst food | | | | causing you problems you will be able to improve |
| intolerance produces symptoms which can take hours | | | | your sense of wellbeing. Food allergy and food |
| or even days to develop.Of course the best thing to | | | | intolerance testing can help you do this whilst |
| do is identify whether you have a food intolerance or | | | | strengthening your immune system is the starting |
| allergy and then eliminate the problem foods | | | | point on the road to better health. |