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