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Food Allergies and Food Intolerance: The Complete Guide to Their Identification and Treatment

Author: Jonathan Brostoff

 •  A leading international authority on food allergy and intolerance provides invaluable advice for achieving dramatic and long-lasting improvements in your health. 

•  Explains how sensitivity to foods is responsible for many chronic and misdiagnosed ailments such as migraines, sinus problems, and persistent fatigue. 

•  Includes a step-by-step process for identifying food allergies and intolerances and reshaping your diet for better health.

Many people suffer from chronic, unexplained health problems--migraine headaches, poor digestion, recurring sinus symptoms, aching muscles and joints, persistent fatigue--whose causes remain elusive, even to doctors. When conventional tests fail to provide a clear-cut diagnosis, doctors often suggest that these symptoms are due to stress or anxiety, but now Jonathan Brostoff and Linda Gamlin demonstrate that quite often food allergies and food intolerance are the true culprits in these situations.

The authors provide clear explanations of the causes of, as well as the differences between, food allergies and food intolerance and offer numerous case studies on problems all too familiar to many readers. More important, they provide much-needed solutions and treatments for these problems. Along with a wealth of illustrations and charts, Food Allergies and Food Intolerance includes an invaluable step-by-step process for diagnosing food intolerance with a three-stage elimination diet and a system of gradual food reintroduction. A must for anyone who suspects a chronic condition may be linked to dietary sensitivity, Food Allergies and Food Intolerancesupplies information that often results in dramatic and long-lasting improvement in people's health and in their lives. 

Library Journal

This third edition updates a work originally published in 1989 as The Complete Guide to Food Allergy and Intolerance. Brostoff, a recognized authority on food allergy and author of numerous research studies, and Gamlin, a biochemist and journalist, clarify the difference between allergy and intolerance, explaining the immunological processes underlying hypersensitivity. Drawing on recent research, they identify common allergens and common treatment options. The authors also present a very detailed elimination diet and reintroduction schedule, their recommended method of diagnosing food intolerances. The text is detailed and thorough in the topics covered but lacks a satisfactory examination of alternative and/or complementary practices (many of which are excellent resources for allergy sufferers). Recommended for public and consumer health collections.--Andy Wickens, King Cty. Lib. Sys., Seattle Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Internet Bookwatch

Food Allergies and Food Intolerance provides a complete guide to identification of food allergies, explaining food sensitivities, providing a process for identifying food allergies, and revealing symptoms and side effects of food related problems. The depth of details in this survey makes for an important guide which should not be missed by any studying allergies or food problems.

Table of Contents:

Food Allergies and Food Intolerance
The Complete Guide to Their Identification and Treatment

Acknowledgments
Authors' Note
Note to the Third Edition
1. Another Man's Poison
2. Food Allergy, Mast Cells, and IgE
3. The Classical Allergic Diseases
4. Treating Classical Allergies and Identifying Food Allergens
5. Other Forms of Food Allergy
6. The Great Controversy
7. Food Intolerance
8. Mind and Body
9. Chemical Sensitivity
10. Bugs in the System--Candida and Giardia
11. Food Problems in Children
12. What Causes Food Intolerance?
13. Preventing Food Sensitivity
14. The Elimination Diet
15. After the Elimination Diet--Treating Food Intolerance
Appendices
Index

Jonathan Brostoff is Honorary Consulting Physician and Professor of Allergy and Environmental Health at University College London Medical School. He is recognized as a leading international authority on food allergy and intolerance. He lives in London.

Linda Gamlin trained as a biochemist and worked in research for several years before turning to journalism. She specializes in writing about the immune system, allergies, and other health matters.

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