"Doug Freyburger" > wrote in message
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> Pennyaline wrote:
>>
>> 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.

An elimination diet is super hard to do if you don't know what you are
looking for. I never would have known eggs were a problem for me until I
eliminated them from my diet because my daughter had to. And I still
wouldn't have known had I not added them back in, because I was still eating
things that caused problems.

Much of the foods shown as problems on my test were not foods I liked
anyway. All fish/seafood and chicken. Yes, chicken broth is in a lot of
things. But still no big deal. And no big deal about the herbs either.
The dairy? I believe I knew. But I was in denial for a long time.