The main reason for doing an elimination diet is to identify hidden allergies and food intolerance. These are often foods that are harmful to some individuals, but whose harmful affects are not immediately obvious. Also, the mechanism by which these hidden allergies result in symptoms seems to be quite different from how the more obvious allergic or hypersensivity reactions take place, and is still not fully appreciated or understood. This means that conventional allergy testing – for example, by looking at blood samples to identify antibodies – is a largely hit and miss affair, and other methods, such as vega testing and kinesiology, which depend entirely on the intuition of the practitioner, are really just guesswork, however well informed the practitioner might be.
The fact remains that hidden allergies and food intolerance can cause a lot of problems. In most cases there are really no short cuts to finding out what’s going on, and elimination dieting seems the most sensible and accurate way of exploring and finding out.
What are the symptoms of hidden allergies?
Hidden allergies and food intolelrance can produce a variety of symptoms and can
affect almost any organ. Often patients report multiple symptoms -
Symptoms frequently persist for decades and patients often report that multiple visits to their doctor have not resolved their problems.
February -
February -
Meetings will be held at the Urban Fringe Dispensary, 58 Colston Street, Bristol
on Monday evenings from 6.30 -
Schedule:
Monday February 8th: Introduction meeting, start elimination diet. Dates for future meetings to be discussed and agreed, and suggested dates are:
Monday February 15th: 1st meeting
Monday February 22nd: 2nd meeting
Monday March 1st: 3rd meeting
Monday March 8th: 4th meeting
Monday March 15th: 5th meeting
Monday March 29th: 6th meeting, Finish elimination diet.
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