Allergies and good advice(pt. 3)

The next section in the book is Q. and A.  I probably will not be writing down the Q part, but, just summarizing the A.

Most people associate food allergy with acute reactions such  as itching, hives, headache, intestinal upset. These reactions do not represent the majority of food  allergies. The most common forms are disorders due to the cumulative effects of frequently eaten foods.

Food allergy is common because we eat every day.  Effects from a single meal can last 3 days or longer. We eat three meals a day. In a year we consume over 1,000 meals. This unending exposure is increased by snacks, treats shared at school, coffee breaks ...

If you eat a food two or three times a week, there is never a time when your body is free from it. When it accumulates to a level that exceeds your tolerance, the result is a continuing and cascading series of allergic reactions. Since one starts before the other stops, this results in chronic illness. You may be sick from this,but, never realize that it is food allergy causing the chronic illness.

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Remember that, now, in many places,it's more likely people are eating 5-8 meals per day, plus snacks, etc.  So, that makes the cumulative effect worse.

Also, "because we eat every day" is true. Which is to say, when I do intermittent fasting, I digest food better.But, when I do it where there is an extended (24 hour or more) period between some meals, I actually have better tolerance to foods that I should be avoiding, but, sometimes, fail to not eat.

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Food allergies are often responsible for: cold sores, inflamed gums, ulcers, indigestion, gallbladder attacks, colitis, gas, arthritis, headaches, weakness, fatigue, palpitations, severe itching, "growing pains", bed wetting, hyperactivity. The ears, eyes, nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs can be affected. Allergic reactions can affect the functions of any organ or system and cause a wide variety of physical disorders.

The circulatory system transports digested foods to all systems and organs of the body. including the brain which has the richest blood supply of any organ. Brain reactions may cause nervousness, restlessness, irritability, unprovoked anger, dizzy spells, lightheadedness, withdrawal, inability to concentrate, poor memory, learning disabilities, mood swings, psychotic behavior, and schizophrenia.

If your doctor does not have a working knowledge of food allergy. he cannot possibly diagnose your illness correctly. He may tell you "It's all in your head.", prescribe you an antidepressant or refer you to a psychiatrist.

The most frequently eaten foods  (so, most likely to cause allergic reaction) are: milk (children), coffee (adults), wheat (all ages), Other major food offenders, without age discretion are: corn, oats, rice, rye, cane sugar, beef, egg, chicken, tuna, pork, flounder, apple, banana, lettuce, tomato, potato, onion, string beans, soy, peanut, tea, chocolate, black pepper, paprika and mustard.

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Do not freak out. This is not a "What can I eat, then!" moment. Honestly! The point of this book is to help sort out what YOU are/are not allergic to and maybe even help you get over/control the allergies you do have.

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Many doctors advise the removal of foods from a diet because they are seen as most likely to cause allergic reaction, without proof that these foods are the culprits. Which can leave the (other) food offenders in the diet.

Food allergies can be as addictive as drugs. When an addictive food is eaten during a withdrawal reaction, symptoms decrease in intensity or clear up entirely.
Reexposure to the food then makes the withdrawal symptoms return, with the patient having to start over. Which makes it more likely that they will not cease eating the food.

The simplest method of testing yourself for food allergy is to avoid the most common offending foods (listed above) and see how you feel. Make a list of the foods you  eat infrequently (about once every 5 days) and try eating them, instead. 

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Obviously, if it is something you never eat or eat even less often, so much the better. And, if it is something you eat at least two or three times a week, put it on the list to avoid, even if it is not on the list of common allergic foods.
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DO NOT eat any foods that you love, crave, have eaten on binges, make you feel more alert or energetic, or, which give you a sense of well-being. These responses are all signs of food addiction

A more specific method of testing is the Rotary Diet.

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The Rotary Diet is what we are here for. Oh yes, it is!

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In time you will probably be able to eat 50-70 % of foods you are unable to eat now. This reversible type of allergic reaction happens because we eat a food too often. If we eliminate them for one to six months, to give our body a rest, there is an excellent chance that our tolerance to such foods will be restored.The more severe your reaction the longer your rest period should be. 

Reintroduce these foods one at a time, eating the same food only once per week. At the same time as you are resting and testing the foods you are definitely or suspected of being allergic to, you can prevent further allergies from developing by not eating any foods more than once every four to five days.

Some food allergies are fixed (permanent). They will cause a reaction even if removed from the diet for years.

Also, minimize your biological stress by: avoiding chemicals and fumes as much as possible, eating natural foods, drinking pure water, and focusing on whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables.

Experiencing one allergen can make you have a worse reaction to another allergen, causing more stress than our bodies can tolerate. The combined effects of chemicals and foods can cause similar  problems. Symptoms from food may appear upon, or be aggravated by, exposure to cigarette smoke, permanent markers, paint, hair products, insect sprays, furniture polish, mothballs, etc. Alcohol can aggravate food allergy because it hastens the rate of absorption.

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I think it's real important to know this information. I wish I had known it much sooner. One of the most important things, in my opinion, is in the previous post, where it is emphasized that the most dangerous allergies are the ones medical doctors discount as not even being an allergy.

I have been smirked at by more than one doctor,  who asked, "Don't you mean intolerance?" and/or "Is it really an allergy? Did you get hives and need an Epi pen?"  Or, whom made some similar smurgling display of lack of knowledge and ethics.

Next up is fasting, because, that is where it comes in the book. And,because, I am doing it right now, and, I like it.

Have a lovely day!

Allergies and Good Advice (pt 1)

When I say good advice, I do not mean that I am offering medical advice to you. I am no sort of health professional or in need of  being sued, so I leave that to the experts.

The good advice is from a book I am exploring which was written by a doctor who specialized in the treatment of allergies. The book is called  Dr. Mandell's Allergy-Free COOKBOOK. Some of it's advice I cannot  actually follow, as it is stated, due to already knowing I am allergic to some things included in the eating plans. Fortunately, other bits of advice and common sense cover this.

Now, first of all, let me state that I am not going to purposely advocate any particular style of eating for anyone - such as raw vegan, Paleo, Keto, grain free, wheat free, The Zone, South Beach- because,  I  know two things.One is that we are ant all the same. We have access to different qualities of foods, different burdens, different physical needs. So, it is patently ridiculous to think there is only one way to eat.

Also, I believe in the Bible and ,yes, I know that I should, because, I tried it and it worked out well, and, because, I have seen proof from scholars,medical professionals of varying sorts and laymen that it has worked for them, as well. And, a lot of those diets are firmly against the Bible.

Oh, they are not against the Bible as something to do to improve one's health by utilizing their eating strategies for a while. It's not a sin to use the good advice from them. 

Where they go against the Bible is, again, in  making unclean the things that God has made  clean.

Acts 10 10 But he became very hungry and wanted to eat. While they were preparing the meal, he fell into a trance 11 and saw heaven opened and something descending like a great linen sheet being let down by its four corners on the earth; 12 and in it were all sorts of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and birds of heaven. 13 Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!” 14 But Peter said: “Not at all, Lord, because I have never eaten anything defiled and unclean.” 15 And the voice spoke again to him, the second time: “Stop calling defiled the things God has cleansed.” 16 This happened a third time, and immediately it was taken up into heaven.

Only, in the case of the diets, they are making unclean even things that Jehovah God had never set aside as unclean and uneatable for even a small time.  Some diets say never to eat fruit or never to eat grains Others say never to eat animals, fish or grains. What does the Bible say?

 Genesis 2: 9 Thus Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food and also the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad.


Genesis 2: 15 Jehovah God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eʹden to cultivate it and to take care of it. 16 Jehovah God also gave this command to the man: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction.


Genesis 1: 29 Then God said: “Here I have given to you every seed-bearing plant that is on the entire earth and every tree with seed-bearing fruit. Let them serve as food for you. 30 And to every wild animal of the earth and to every flying creature of the heavens and to everything moving on the earth in which there is life, I have given all green vegetation for food.” And it was so.

So, in the beginning, mankind was meant to eat seed-bearing fruit from trees and seed-bearing plants. Which is, what? Sounds like grains and pseudo-grains, berries, nuts and such as that, to me. At this point, flesh was not eaten. But, then the Flood came and at the end of Noah's journey in the ark, came also this:

Genesis 9: 3 Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for you. Just as I gave you the green vegetation, I give them all to you. 4 Only flesh with its life —its blood —you must not eat

Deuteronomy 6: 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey

2 Kings 7:1 E·liʹsha now said, “Listen to the word of Jehovah. This is what Jehovah says: ‘Tomorrow about this time at the gate of Sa·marʹi·a, a seah measure of fine flour will be worth a shekel, and two seah measures of barley will be worth a shekel.’”

1^st Samuel 25:18 So Abʹi·gail quickly took 200 loaves of bread, two large jars of wine, five dressed sheep, five seah measures of roasted grain, 100 cakes of raisins, and 200 cakes of pressed figs and put all of it on the donkeys.

Mark 6:41 Taking now the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves up and began giving them to the disciples to place them before the people, and he divided up the two fish for all. 42 So they all ate and were satisfied,

Matthew 26: 26 As they continued eating, Jesus took a loaf, and after saying a blessing, he broke it, and giving it to the disciples, he said: “Take, eat. This means my body.” 27 And taking a cup, he offered thanks and gave it to them, saying: “Drink out of it, all of you, 28 for this means my ‘blood of the covenant,’ which is to be poured out in behalf of many for forgiveness of sins. 29 But I say to you: I will by no means drink again any of this product of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the Kingdom of my Father.”

What does all this mean? People ate fruit, vegetables, meat, dates, figs, and honey. Even under the Mosaic Law, which restricted scavenger meats, there was still flesh foods of all sorts, including milk from animals. Jesus Christ offered, from his own hand, cooked food, in the form of bread, which is grains. He also offered the flesh of fish. He partook of lamb, bitter greens, bread and wine at the same meal. He encouraged others to eat bread, lamb, bitter greens, fish and wine. Therefore, none of this is wrong, in and of itself. And, no one should teach that it is wrong for all of mankind to partake of any of these in a reasonable, non-gluttonous, non-cruel manner.

So, it is not wrong to be a vegan or a vegetarian, for the sake of promoting a lack of cruelty toward both animals and humans. But, it is wrong to say “meat is murder” under all circumstances, as if animals are not something mankind was allowed to partake of the flesh of, as needed, by the one true God.

It is not wrong to say that you find eating raw vegetables to eating cooked foods, especially meat. But, it is wrong to censure the Son of Man for eating lamb and bread.

To my way of thinking, unless you have reason to believe you have an allergy (intolerances count), or, simply desire not to eat certain foods for your own reasons, this eschewing categories of foods is simply a distraction from the true cause(s) of one's illness, stress and/or weight gain.

Now, does that mean I think it is wrong to try to eat ketogenically for an extended period of time, if it works for you? No. I don't think it is wrong. I think it is unnecessary. And, to simplify one's life is to cut out the unnecessary, as much as possible, unless it is at least so enjoyable that it is not a burden.

IE: It is necessary to wear clothes to adhere to the laws of most places. Wearing colors that flatter your coloring in styles that make your figure look good is not necessary, but, it helps you get along in the world and makes you happier, so, it's good to do.

So, these are the reasons I reject the concepts behind most eating strategies, but, why I don't necessarily reject the actual strategies. 

I realize I haven't actually gotten into the book, yet. But, reasons should be explored and if people cannot give you good reasons for what they do (or, want you to do) they probably shouldn't be in your life.

The end, for now.