Pennyaline wrote:
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> Just in case anyone was unclear about this:
> http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifesty...rcent.html.csp

The test to use to detect a food intolerance is eliminate and challenge.
The blood tests give far too random results. The article points out
that there is technically a difference between a food allergy and a food
intolerance. Too bad. Food causes bad symptoms in some people and they
call it food allergies.

To do an eliminate and challenge remove the ingredient from your food
for at least a week preferably two. If you feel noticably better then
that food ingredient was extremely bad for you. Then add the ingredient
back in. I'ts much easier to notice symptoms coming back than symptoms
going away. If the symptoms come back that food ingredient is a problem
for you.

If you want a list of tiems to try this test for yourself, glance at
common products and note what they say in the caveat section. Wheat,
gluten, dairy, eggs, peanuts, other legumes, tree nuts and so on.

Will you find a problem? You can't know until you've tried. Claim all
you like that you don't have any food intolerance but you don't have the
data. But don't expect that you'll find a food that causes you. The
chances are higher than you might expect but they are still under 50-50
when you go through the entire list.

The question is whether it's worth looking. If you have some nagging
medical issue that no doctor has ever found a cause for, it's worth it
even if the issue is small. Like chronic indigestion for example.
Folks, the cure for indigestion is not to take pills to screw up your
digestion worse. The cure for indigestion is to isolate if ther eare
ingredients or combinations of ingredients that cause it and then don't
eat those foods. Second, don't eat what makes you feel bad. First, do
a system that tells you what those foods are.