Q: Have you noticed any relationship between food sensitivity and raised blood sugar? And is there a reduction in blood sugars once the food sensitivities have been investigated and managed? Does blood sugar improve for those who manage their fructose and lactose and intolerance well? A: These are interesting questions. I will try and help your thinking by letting you know where blood glucose levels (BGLs) fitted into care in food sensitive people. Because I first worked with … [Read more...]
Give yourself an update on food intolerance
If you feel it is time you expanded your knowledge on food sensitivity there is an easy way! And you can choose what you want to know more about. You can decide from over 70 Articles to understand more of what you need to help your own understanding. Just one click will give you the overview https://foodintolerancepro.com/articles/ and then you open what interests you. See ‘What’s smell got to do with it?’ Smell is as important as any of the suspect food chemicals. Is the diet right yet? … [Read more...]
Food sensitivity problems can be complex
I have a complex problem regarding food sensitivity and I hope you have some insight as to what I might be able to do next….. About three years ago during a prolonged period of stress I was exposed to a massive dose of pesticides and/or wheat dust being offloaded on a dock, right where I was staying in a motel. From that first day I got such bad hayfever, which I’d not had before. I also had penicillin for the first time in my life a few weeks prior. Not sure if this is relevant. Along with the … [Read more...]
Even the smell of water can be a problem
As a migraine sufferer I am extremely sensitive to smells. To the point of water coming from pipes in hotels… and I suspect greens in salads washed with this water. (Novotel restaurant) I had to spit them out! Just stayed at the Novotel in Brisbane on Creek Street. Couldn’t stomach the water. But at a restaurant on the river, (Il Centro) who also said they were using tap water, I had no problem. This is more than just the meats going off!! Maybe the salad was one of those bagged salads … [Read more...]
Scary reaction to tyramines
I have been placed on a keto diet for reactive hypoglycaemia due to stress and probable serotonin deficiency. Eating low carb diet has been fine but have been eating lots of healthy fats which have been high in tyramine which I had never heard of before. I had hypertensive crisis last week and have stopped eating the tyramine foods. My question is that I take 5 htp and have been for about a month and is that safe with tyramine foods? Any advice would be great. Dear Anette, You have complex, … [Read more...]
Managing your diet at Christmas
Christmas time produces choices for food sensitive people. Will you eat all of your usual favourite Christmas food and just put up with your symptoms, or just have small amounts of all of them and note how strong your symptoms are? Will you decide to test just one favourite food such as ham off the bone, or Christmas pudding or cake? Every January I listened to stories of my patients. Some were fairly careful, and were even surprised they had very few symptoms. Others said they “would never do … [Read more...]
Finer points of biscuit ingredients, and floury potato texture
Sam: I note that in your book Tolerating Troublesome Foods you classify commercial sweet biscuits as Risk Rating 5 and wheat as dry white biscuits as Risk Rating 2. Would a milk arrowroot biscuit therefore be a Risk Rating 5 whereas a teething rusk be a Risk Rating 2? Although an adult in age, I eat very much like a kid (fussy eater, slow eater, eat simple foods, eat mild tasting foods, eat foods separately/sequentially, eat frequent small meals, drink plenty of milk). I'm not sure whether this … [Read more...]