Some Facts - Food And Environmental Sensitivites
Food And Environmental Sensitivites
Intolerance and sensitivity to our environment and food, can affect many of us in our normal everyday lives. Often a minor change in a person's dietary habit can improve lives significantly.
The British Allergy Foundation estimates that up to 45% of the UK population suffers from illness related to food sensitivities (at some time or other) and it is similar in other Western countries.
Asthma
* Cases of asthma have doubled in the last ten years.
* Asthma causes one death every four hours and over one in five households have one or more member suffering from asthma.
* Out of all child admissions into hospital, 50% are asthma related. One of the main triggers for an allergic reaction is the common dust mite.
* The dust mite and its waste is responsible for 80% of asthma and countless eczema cases.
* Up to 2 million dust mites live in one double bed. Four million people in the UK alone suffer from dust mite allergies.
* Other triggers are bee/wasp stings, pollen, animal dander and certain foods.
Diet and Weight Fluctuations
* Weight Fluctuations are very often associated with fluid retention problems. In fact marked weight fluctuation (maybe several pounds within twenty four hours) can be directly caused by food intolerance.
* A study into irritable bowel syndrome at the Radcliffe Royal Infirmary found that 39% of patients found wheat to be contributing factor to their IBS after completing an eliminative diet.
* In a study on migraines in children at the Hospital for Sick Children, Dr. Egger found that 24% of those studied had migraines as a reaction to wheat.
* Trials by Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1983, set out to discover whether migraine in children was a food allergy. On a restricted diet they had a 93% success rate in curing the migraines. Cows' milk and cheese were found to be the number 1 culprits. Interestingly the children had relief from many other ailments while eliminating dairy produce.
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