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Healthy foods? More or less likely to develop intolerances?
‘HEALTHY EATERS’ Those of you who have had tests with me already know how much I ‘bang on’ about frequent foods being the most likely foods for people to become intolerant of. Because most people tend in the western world to eat in a similar way, the most...
APRIL IS IBS AWARENESS MONTH!
Irritable bowel syndrome is hardly a diagnosis! It just means the bowel is irritated by something, and it is a syndrome which is not fully understood. There are many possibilities for what irritates the bowel, but the top suspect has got to be food or drink....
HORMONES AND MIGRAINE
This is a very good overview of how female hormones play a part in migraine during womens' reproductive years. Take a look! http://www.neurologyadvisor.com/migraine-and-headache/migraine-management-during-female-reproductive-stages/article/648747/
BIG FIVE CAUSES OF MIGRAINE
If migraine was only down to cheese and chocolate...as the perceived wisdom goes....it would be easy to sort! BUT there are always other things going on... 1.Food intolerance plays a part for sure, but not just cheese and chocolate. Cow's milk products and...
INSIDE HEALTH RADIO 4 EXPLAINS FODMAPS DIET FOR IBS
Yesterday's 'Inside Health on radio 4 with Dr Mark Porter interviewed a dietician who gave a very good explanation of the FODMAPS, and how well it works to help IBS symptoms. FODMAPS is an exclusion diet, excluding fermentable oligosaccharides and polyols from...
LATEST RESEARCH AND NEWS FOR ECZEMA SUFFERERS
Pre-conceptual stress in the mother. A new study from the University of Southampton interviewed 3848 before they were pregnant, and assessed their stress levels. They found that 1 in 6 of these women were experiencing severe stress in their lives. Those women...
TRUST ME, I’M A DOCTOR
What a fantastic programme this is! Standing out brilliantly from the plethora of 'health ' programmes which prove very little. It is fronted by Michael Mosley, a medical doctor who specialises in health jounalism, mainly through books and TV programmes. He is...
REMINDERS
For those of you who have had a test with me... Whatever foods you are intolerant of , you MUST read labels on everything you eat. Especially if you are intolerant to dairy products, yeast, soya or sunflower. These foods are in SO many products. Three months...
New advice on peanut allergy
Follow this link....https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-sponsored-expert-panel-issues-clinical-guidelines-prevent-peanut-allergy
Irritable bowel syndrome
Irritable Bowel Syndrome sounds like a proper diagnosis,but it isn’t really. Generally it can be summed up that the bowel is irritated by something, but that the doctor doesn’t think that anything bad is wrong…usually backed up by a blood test, scan or...