Have your symptoms been bothering you? Do you have a plan to really control them better? Here are some easy ways to achieve what you want. Have you cut out some foods, and then a few more, but not had good enough results? This might be the time to take yourself through the diet detective process. You can add information about food reactions you know in yourself, and reactions in your family, to the Baseline Diet in my book: Are You Food Sensitive? You can use the Easy Elimination Diet, … [Read more...]
Eosinophilic Oesophagitis responded to low chemical diet – case study Oct 2016
Dietary treatment for Eosinophilic Oesophagitis (EO) was shown to be relevant when a fully hydrolysed formula produced improvement in around 90% of cases. With that realization of an allergy mechanism the six-food elimination diet (SFED) was used. This produced an efficacy of 70%. The shift to the SFED still implies that many foods are suspect, and also suggests that dietary treatment for EO is the same for everyone. Other research has reported that the improvement can be equally verified from … [Read more...]
Supersensitivity in Food Sensitive People
When I was growing up I suppose I was like most people. I thought the amount of light, noise, smell, touch, and taste that I find acceptable was much the same as everybody else’s. Perhaps, with a dietitian’s interest in food, I did acknowledge that there were people we described as having a “cast iron stomach” and at the other end of the spectrum those who were food gourmets. However, when I began working with a low chemical diet I met people with a wide variety of sensitivity to all sensory … [Read more...]
Symptoms food sensitive people may have
We know what symptoms food sensitive people get from hearing about the symptoms that go away when they go on the low chemical diet, and, importantly, come back when they have foods that cause their reactions. Many food sensitive people have more than one symptom, and their immediate family may have the same or other symptoms. Following is a list of the many symptoms grouped in different ways of thinking about them:- Food sensitivity symptoms may be two types of physical symptoms. Allergy … [Read more...]
Mood is another way diet can affect food sensitive people
People are gradually accepting that food can affect migraines, or that additives can affect ADHD kids, but many do not know that diet can affect mood. Diet responding adults with various symptoms also report feeling calmer, with more even mood. Parents report that their ADHD and ASD children are much less irritable, touchy or cranky. Like other symptoms it is not an all-or-nothing change but rather a decrease in the severity of the symptom. There have been reports of reduction in worry, anxiety … [Read more...]
Mood changes and the role of diet
One of the surprising results of trialing diet in symptoms such as ADHD, migraine, gut pain, and allergic symptoms was that parents and individuals reported changes in mood. There were differences in the type of mood change and in the amount of change, and differences in children and adults. And there were different types of mood change:- Irritability, touchiness and crankiness While dietary intervention in ADHD showed changes in the core symptoms of inattention, impulsivity and … [Read more...]
Chronic ear infections – diet can have a role
What are the steps in thinking about diet and chronic ear infections? The first is that chronic ear infections are known to have an adverse effect on hearing. Then this has an adverse effect on language development, and because hearing is decreased behaviour problems can arise. Preventing these problems is important. The second idea is to think about what is known about causes or reasons for chronic ear infections? Chronic ear infections are more likely to occur:- where infections … [Read more...]