Change your Diet and Change your Life

A healthy diet is only 'healthy' if it works for you and YOU are unique. Eating the wrong diet for you can lead to physical and mental problems, affect your appearance, alter your behaviour and limit your life. Changing your diet can truly change your life.

Offering no gimmicks and no promises of a quick fix, Change Your Diet and Change Your Life guides you gently through understanding the ways in which food intolerance can make you ill.

Detailed information on individual foods and food chemicals ensures this book is a comprehensive handbook of food intolerance and food allergy. Research evidence is presented covering a range of conditions including asthma, behaviour problems, dermatitis, fatigue, migraine, tinnitus, urticaria, and weight problems. The role of food chemicals (including amines, benzoates, caffeine, lectins, MSG, salicylate, and sulphites) is explained, and the difficulties that can be caused by individual foods is also outlined.

This book is unique in presenting an easy to follow seven step plan that will help you identify if food intolerance is at the root of your health problems.

[This book is available in paperback with the title: The Food Intolerance Handbook. The contents are the same.]

Contents

Welcome

1 You Are Unique:

Biochemical individuality

The myth of the healthy diet

If food was my problem surely I'd know, wouldn't I?

Proven by many, not accepted by the majority.

Why you need to involve your doctor

2 Food Can Make You Ill

Symptoms

Physical problems

Mind, emotions and behaviour

Just living...

Not all illness is food related but ...

Evidence:, Acute Pancreatitis, Anorexia Nervosa, Arthritis, Asthma, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism, Behaviour, Breast Pain, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Coeliac Disease, Colic and Colitis, Crohn's Disease, Dermatitis Herpetiformis, Eczema (and Dermatitis), Epilepsy, Fatigue, Gallbladder Disease, Gastrointestinal Problems, Glaucoma, Head and Neck Pain, Hemiplegia, Hypoglycaemia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Joint Pain, Mekersson-Rosenthal Syndrome, Memory Loss, Meniere's Disease, Migraine, Mouth Ulcers (Aphthous Ulcers), Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis, Nephrotic Syndrome, Oral Allergy Syndrome, Pre Menstrual Syndrome, Psoriasis, Recurrent Otitis Media, Restless Legs Syndrome, Rhinitis, Sexual Dysfunction, Sinusitis, Sleep Disorders, Tinnitus, Urticaria, Vasculitis, Vertigo.

3 Food Intolerance and Food Allergy

Testing Methods

The Seven Step Plan

Step 1: Decide to take some action

Step 2: Simplify your diet

Step 3: Know what you are eating.

Step 4: Develop a strategy

Step 5: Eliminate suspect foods

Step 6: Test suspect foods

Step 7: Review

4 Food Chemicals

Amines

Foods high in amines

Benzoates

Caffeine

Capsaicin

Gluten

Histamine

Lectins

MSG

Oxalic acid

Phenylethylamine

Purines

Salicylates

Saponins

Serotonin

Solanine

Sulphur and sulphites

Tannins

Tyramine

Other chemicals: Aflatoxin, Carvone, Glycyrrihizic Acid, Goitrogens, Hymenoptera insects, Linamarin, Moulds, Myristicin, Nickel, Nitrates, Phenols, Propionates, Tin.

5 Individual Foods

Chocolate

Corn

Eggs

Fish

Fruit

Grains: Rice, Barley, Oats , Rye, Buckwheat.

Herbs and spices

Legumes

Margarine.

Meat and poultry

Milk

Peanut

Seeds and nuts

Soya

Sugars and sweeteners

Vegetables

Wheat

6 The Next Stage

Tips and tricks

Final Word

Appendix 1: Food Additives

Resources

References