There is a downside to investigating your diet. Favourite foods have to be excluded, you have cravings when first on the diet, many other important people, even some your relations, and maybe even your doctor, may not be supportive. You just feel like going bust and eating lots of off-diet foods. Remember that liked foods […]
Tyramine sensitivity update
A comment from Kent has made me ask should tyramine sensitivity be a separate food sensitivity syndrome, as it is a group of symptoms. Kent writes “I have read a sampling of the comments on this page [in the Blogs] and I see quite a few people who state that they are sensitive to tyramine […]
Salicylates. Flavours are also suspect chemicals
The careful analysis of the natural chemical salicylate, carried out by Dr Anne Swain for the RPAH diet, was groundbreaking research and was used as a guide in 1985. However, the amounts she found present did not correlate as expected with tolerance in patients. The reaction-causing chemicals may be salicylates or compounds somewhat similar to […]
Wheat: understanding its complexity
How do we make sense of wheat as an allergy, as causing coeliac disease, as affecting cooking softness, and as producing wind in some people? And there is a report saying that many people are eating more gluten-free products as they wrongly believe they are better for their general health and weight control. Let us […]
Salicylate analysis in 2017 does it help?
Foods reported as high in salicylate but which are reported as not causing strong reactions in most diet responders included green beans, green peas, mild avocado, just-ripe bananas, unpeeled Packham pears, unpeeled pink lady apples, and persimmons. The 2017 salicylate data has not made understanding which foods you are more likely to tolerate easier. What […]
Do short comments or books work for you? Have both!
Do you like websites that provide short interesting comments occasionally? That can be fun. Here is one on bread which many food sensitive people suspect. When thinking about bread we can think about the starch, protein and fibre aspects separately. Some who report bread as a problem report that they think they do not have […]
Underweight is often a problem in food sensitive people
ADHD children are often thin. Adults who are food sensitive are much more often underweight than overweight. Since your tolerance of suspect food is less with underweight the first priority is to ensure that sufficient food is included to maintain normal weight. There is a difference between being “wiry” and “too thin”! To obtain sufficient energy, […]