The Food Allergy

Food sensitivity is a low grade food allergy.

There are three foods that people commonly find themselves having a food allergy to: dairy, wheat, peanuts.

You may or may not be allergic to one or more.

Symptoms vary from person to person, so just take note of your aches, pains and irritations and see if they change.

How do allergies work? I mean, how do I get them?

Each cup holds a chemical or a food that you interact with.

Each time I eat a food, a little bit goes in the cup for that food.

Interestingly, the reaction to healthy foods and unhealthy foods is different.

The Food Allergy Cup for Healthy Foods

For example, say you eat a lot of brussel sprouts. We're going to count that as a healthy food. (Or just pick the healthy food of your choice and substitute it for brussel sprouts. I happen to love brussel sprouts.)

So you eat them every day.

And every day, a little bit of brussel sprout goes into the brussle sprout cup.

It fills up.

And fills up.

And fills up.

It takes awhile. Maybe six months of eating brussel sprouts every day.

But eventually that brussel sprouts food allergy cup will overflow.

Suddenly you can't STAND the sight of brussel sprouts.

If you kept eating them, ou probably wouldn't feel well. Your body is telling you that you need other nutrients.

The Food Allergy Cup for UNhealthy Foods

The Unhealthy foods include foods that have high-fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils, lots of sugar, lots of salt, and lunch meats.

Now lets get to the good stuff. How about ice-cream? Mmmm.

The same scenario.

You loooove your ice cream (or pick treat of your choice). So, you eat a little bit after dinner.

You're happy.

It's deeeelicious.

And you eat a little bit after dinner every day.

A little never hurt anyone, did it? And dairy is healthy!

But your dairy allergy food cup is filling up inside of you.

Time goes by and you start getting a little bit gassy during the day. So you take your tums. That seems to help a bit.

Your dairy cup is starting to overflow.

But your ice-cream is so good that you keep eating it.

Another year goes by and you start getting really phlegm-y. You're coughing up phlegm. It's getting a little annoying.

So, you go and get a decongestant.

And another year goes by. You start thinking that maybe I should stop eating ice-cream. So, you do.

You get my calcium from plain old milk instead.

And you're still not better. So, it clearly wasn't the ice-cream.

Another year goes by.

Your stomach is still queasy all the time and you're phlegmy.

But now, you're used to it. It's just the way you are.

And you still like my ice-cream.

But inside your dairy cup is POURING over.

With the 'fun foods' we tend to develop addictions to them, or at least we're not repulsed by them!

Do I have an allergy?

Allergy blood tests are great to look at to start with.

But they don't get to the allergies that are either not hiding out in your blood system or are subtle enough to make you feel sick but not strong enough to show up in your system.

Process of Elimination

Determine what you think you might be allergic to. For this example, we'll use the three things that many people are allergic to: dairy, wheat and peanuts.

First start taking things out one at a time.

If nothing changes, then take the next thing out.

And then the next thing. Then slowly put them back in.
For example, you're phlegmy and queasy.

Take dairy out for a week.

If nothing changes, you may or may not be allergic to dairy.

So, keep the dairy out and take the wheat out.


If nothing changes, you may or may not be allergic to wheat.

Then leave the wheat and dairy out, but also take out the peanuts.
Ah ha! You feel better!

Peanuts are a culprit. Stop eating peanuts or things with peanuts in them.

Now, put the dairy back in. If your symptoms start coming back, you're also allergic to dairy.

Then put the wheat back in. You feel fine.

So, you've discovered that you're allergic to peanuts and dairy, but not wheat.

Now the fun part comes where you try to find substitutes for dairy and peanuts!


Applied Kinesiologists

You will usually find these in your Chiropractic community. Bring in all the foods you eat and your Chiropractor or Kinesiologist will be able to test your foods.

They may also have little vials of all sorts of things such as chemicals, alcohols, foods, and more that we are exposed to on a daily basis. If they do, these are great to use for testing.




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