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Ive mentioned food intolerances in a couple of posts dedictated to other issues, but thought it might be helpful to do something a bit more focused
My observations are based purely on personal expeience so I dont know how much, if it all, it might be relevant to anyone else but it might be an area to explore
I was born in the late 1950s and the only time I wasnt overweight was when I was born! - throughout chilhood weight was gained at a rate of a stone or so a year until the early 1980’s when I commenced treatment with am allergy clinic and after various skin tests etc was started on an exclusion diet where the range of safe foods was limited for 10 days followed by testing of foods to see their effect. the range of safe foods rapidly expanded to include anything I didnt react to and this produced an increase in total calories together with rapid weight loss (61/2 stone in 6 months) which went against everything Id been told to do / think about weight and weight loss.
There was quite a bit written in the literature I read at the time linking food intolerance to later development of diabetes, although the NHS consultant I spoke to shortly after my diabetes diagnosis in the 1990s basically said the notion was rubbish
Im about to start a process of excluding and retesting a couple of the foods I was first diagnosed as intolerant to (dairy and eggs) because Ive noticed that thay are forming a bigger part of my current diet and seem to be assosciated with some bizzare BS raises.
In my experience, the foods I was most intolerant to were the ones I ate the most and seemed almost addicted to - when stopping milk I had repetative milk focused dreams for 7 or 8 days - drieams of drnking or even bathing in milk which was pretty weird and very similar to the repetative dreams I had about fags when giving those up
Ive recently bought this book as part of revisiting the area - if its of interest to anyone, heres the link
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00APDVDT4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
My observations are based purely on personal expeience so I dont know how much, if it all, it might be relevant to anyone else but it might be an area to explore
I was born in the late 1950s and the only time I wasnt overweight was when I was born! - throughout chilhood weight was gained at a rate of a stone or so a year until the early 1980’s when I commenced treatment with am allergy clinic and after various skin tests etc was started on an exclusion diet where the range of safe foods was limited for 10 days followed by testing of foods to see their effect. the range of safe foods rapidly expanded to include anything I didnt react to and this produced an increase in total calories together with rapid weight loss (61/2 stone in 6 months) which went against everything Id been told to do / think about weight and weight loss.
There was quite a bit written in the literature I read at the time linking food intolerance to later development of diabetes, although the NHS consultant I spoke to shortly after my diabetes diagnosis in the 1990s basically said the notion was rubbish
Im about to start a process of excluding and retesting a couple of the foods I was first diagnosed as intolerant to (dairy and eggs) because Ive noticed that thay are forming a bigger part of my current diet and seem to be assosciated with some bizzare BS raises.
In my experience, the foods I was most intolerant to were the ones I ate the most and seemed almost addicted to - when stopping milk I had repetative milk focused dreams for 7 or 8 days - drieams of drnking or even bathing in milk which was pretty weird and very similar to the repetative dreams I had about fags when giving those up
Ive recently bought this book as part of revisiting the area - if its of interest to anyone, heres the link
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00APDVDT4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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