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- Melissa Breyer
- May 6, 2009
- 9:00 am
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By Melissa Breyer, Senior Editor, Healthy & Green Living
Unexplained headaches, fatigue, depression or weight problems? The culprit might be a food intolerance. In fact, the list of symptoms related to food intolerance (also called a food sensitivities) is jaw-dropping, and intolerance is surprisingly common. In contrast to a food allergy, which is an immune system response and not as common, food intolerance/sensitivity is a digestive system response–both can cause serious discomfort.
In order to determine if you have any food sensitivities, you can see your doctor for a blood test or use an at-home mail-order sample test. But if you’d prefer to save money and/or not have to collect and send bodily waste to a lab, you can use the simple and effective at-home pulse test to monitor how your body is reacting to the foods you eat. Following are instructions as described by Antony J. Haynes and Antoinette Savill in The Food Intolerance Bible (Conari Press, 2008).
About the pulse test. In the 1950s, Dr. Arthur Coca identified that his wife’s heart rate would increase if she ate a food that provoked an inappropriate or allergic response. This was, as Dr. Coca put it, ‘accidentally acquired knowledge’ which he then applied to patients as well as his wife. The results were very effective and consistent.
Dr. Coca had to rely on observation, given the relative lack of sophisticated blood tests that are more available today. He developed a rational approach to measuring the pulse and its connection with foods, and used the technique to help many thousands of people. He also identified a number of symptoms.
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Melissa Breyer
Melissa Breyer is a writer and editor with a background in sustainable living, specializing in food, science and design. She is the co-author of True Food (National Geographic) and has edited and written for regional and international books and periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine. Melissa lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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+ add your ownSome health books recommend not eating peanuts at all and if you do, eat them raw after soaking. They can often be toxic.
I was hospitalised for 4 days after eating a few peanuts and I'm awaiting blood test results to see if there's a connection. I found this site as I was hoping I could do some kind of skin test as I'm impatient.
If I AM allergic to peanuts and follow your advice, then I might experience anaphylactic shock and die.
Please remove these pages before you kill someone.
Has anyone tried NAET?,apparently using this method you can cure all allergies,I am keen to hear from anyone who has had results on building your body up to no longer being allergic.
This is great information seeing as the blood work is actually unreliable, and can vary results depending on how recently you've had the offending foods. I first found out that I had a list of intolerances (about 20 out of 200 of foods tested) I spent good money on the alcat tests which indicated I should avoide sugars, and came back saying candida albicans. Turns out even though I managed to get this test, and the answers - the actual result/diagnosis should have been CANDIDA!! I found out that Candida caused my leaky gut, and food intolerances, and by following an appropriate Candida diet (to kill the candida) I am restoring my health and can feel the difference. Good luck to all!!!
thanks for this article! once you've isolated the foods you're sensitive to, come on over to www.reciperx.com and we'll give you recipes specifically matched to your health profile! hope to see you there!!
Like many Canadians, I too suffer from food intolerance. It was hard to pinpoint exactly what was causing my issues. I tried eliminating dairy, gluten… you know the usual suspects, but that still didn’t provide me with any relief. I found out my symptoms were caused by leaky gut, and found a food intolerance test. helped me find out what was causing my issues. Since following the advice provided in the results, I have felt much better and have more energy than before. I would highly recommend getting tested for food sensitivities like I did. Thanks for covering a topic that rarely gets attention, even though it should!
Hi Darkstar crashing: I too have a wide range of food allergies and have learned to deal with them much like a building block system. If I eat an offending food in a day then I avoid other offending foods for that day and this usually works. But, some things I have to avoid at all costs, such as apples or any apple by-product which is in a lot of things. Peanuts another culprit, but worst of all is peanut oil, so thai food and sometimes find it in chinese and fried foods, like chicken. Needless to say it's quite a chore to eat out so I seldom do. More embarrassing is getting invited for dinner at someones home, oh yeah, lactose intolerant, rice makes me itch, peanuts and apples horrible migraines, man it's such a drag so I usually say no if I think the hostess will be offended if I pick at the food choices. In any case, wish you luck with your allergies...
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Thank you for the Post.It is no more an unknown fact that food products have also begun to contribute a good deal in the allergy market causing Food Allergy.
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