What is Food Intolerance?

Are you reacting to foods you are eating?  It is estimated that 45% of people are affected with food intolerance.

Food intolerance is your body’s abnormal reaction to certain foods and symptoms show up in many different ways. Some people can experience just one symptom such as severe headache while others could get more than one symptom which may include respiratory, skin, bowel or digestion problems.

Difficulty in finding your own food intolerance

The in-clinic blood test

I use the Food Detecting kit which is from Cambridge Nutritional Science Ltd (UK) which detects food specific IgG antibodies from blood.   A sample of blood (drop) is taken from a finger and tested against the 50 foods. The result is available in 40 minutes. If any reacting foods are found then removing such foods from your diet would be recommended.

 List of 59 Foods tested

Oat, wheat, Rice, Corn, Rye, Durum Wheat, Gluten, Almond, Brazil, Cashew, Tea, Walnut, Cow’s milk, Whole Egg, Chicken, Lamb, Beef, Pork, White fish Mix (Haddock, Cod & Plaice), Fresh water fish (Salmon & Trout), Tuna, Shellfish mix (Shrimp, Prawn, Crab, Lobster & mussel), Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Leek, Potatoes, Celery, Cucumber,  Peppers  (Red, Green and Yellow), Legume Mix (Pea, Lentil & Haricot), Grapefruit, Melon mix (Cantaloupe & Water Melon), Peanut, Soya Bean, Cocoa Bean, Apple, Blackcurrant, Olive, Orange & Lemon, Strawberry, tomato, Ginger, Garlic, Mushroom and Yeast

“Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food.. stay away from these.” – Michael Pollan