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* 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 Intolerance supplies information that often results in dramatic and long-lasting improvement in people's health and in their lives.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 14 reviews)

Food Sensitivities by Luciana Bouffard (Vermont)

5 Stars
September 06, 2009
I'm sensitive to most foods, vitamins & supplements. After becoming sensitive to a drug which I took for 32 years in Jan., I became really sick. Didn't get much help from doctors. At first, I blamed the drug but I now think that my system got all messed up & ended up with chronic fatigue syndrome. Anyway, I can't take medications with the exception to the one I'm taking now & it no longer helps me so I'm weening off it. The immunologist that I saw basically told me that there was nothing wrong with me as he didn't even believe that someone is sensitive to foods or preservatives. This was one medication that helped me somewhat as I was able to eat a few more things but he said in no time I would eat anything I wanted. Well, he was wrong. This started slowly 14 yrs. ago & progressively got worse. I was exhausted but now I'm just tired so that's better. This book was a god send. He suggested taking yogurt with live bacteria & this has helped me tremendously with loose bowels which I've had since January. I was always a fast eater, I now chew my food thoroughly. He also mentioned sometimes people hyperventilate without realizing it so I work on my breathing. I do yoga twice a day & try to remember my breathing throughout the day. I would love to know why this started 14 yrs. ago but, at least, this book is a help. I have not been able to read it all yet as I do have macular degeneration so I can read a little at a time. This is a very good book for people who have problems with food.

Breaking new medical ground by John T. Mcclure (Belmont, Vermont USA)

5 Stars
June 18, 2009
It's a big step forward: bringing this new under-diagnosed medical problem into the open. This is not"allergy" per se and most docs are unaware of the damage it does to people.

Allergy Book by Jacqueline A. Crucil

2 Stars
January 23, 2009
This book was okay for a 2001 publication. I would think it is outdated by now.

Misinformation on trace reactions, valuable in other ways by Light Pebble

3 Stars
December 26, 2008
This book has useful information. Especially the section on cross-reactions in food intolerance at the end is completely consistent with my food reactions. I used his info on cross reactions to plan a personal rotation diet that's worked well for me. I haven't developed new food intolerances to any of the foods that I've rotated, meaning that if I eat a food on one day, I don't eat any food that Brostoff thinks will cross-react with it, until four days later. I *have* developed new food intolerances to many foods that I haven't carefully rotated. But, bad information on trace reactions! He says pretty flatly that people don't have food intolerance reactions to trace amounts. I do, and many other people on forums online have said they do too. For example, when I was finding out about my corn intolerance, I tried to eliminate corn completely for a week. Then I took a kernel of corn, and I sliced it with a razor blade in half, and half again ... then when I got down to 1/16 of a corn kernel, a tiny blob on my fingertip, I ate it ... and I was severely sick for 5 days. I used to feed the squirrels peanut butter, and one time I didn't wash my hands very carefully afterwards and a little peanut butter got under my fingernail, and I nibbled on my fingers and ate it. A little flash of peanut flavor: and I was sick for four days ... I don't know why he is so sure people don't have non-allergic reactions to traces. Allergists have told me flatly that my kind of food reaction is not an allergic reaction. I get groggy and stuporous and out of it for about four days, sometimes also irritable, back pain, wanting to stuff my face, frequent urination. I've had IgE RAST testing for antibodies to food, and it's been pretty much negative (though not skin testing, which is more sensitive). Maybe it is a kind of allergic reaction where the antibodies don't appear in my blood? I don't know. I react on skin tests to many inhalant allergens, so it would make sense if I had a lot of allergies in my gut too. I probably have celiac disease. Celiac disease causes other food intolerances, maybe by causing mast cell overgrowth in the gut. The food intolerances may be mast cell reactions, I got that idea from a website called thefooddoc. I don't know for sure I have celiac, but I think so because of a test from Enterolab that showed I had 8-10 times normal of IgA antibodies to gluten and autoimmune TTG antibodies. So I don't know what Brostoff would make of me. I know my kind of food reactions isn't very rare. Many people describe similar reactions - celiacs, people who have corn "allergies", etc. Yet I have never seen this kind of food reaction mentioned in mainstream medical literature. The best I can figure is that it's probably a side effect of celiac disease and maybe Brostoff is mainly writing about other kinds of food intolerance that are more common and more mild than celiac disease? I believed him about traces not mattering for a year or two after I quit gluten - he's about the most authoritative specialist in food intolerance - and it badly held up my recovery. I kept on eating fructose made from corn ... and I was woozy-sick for months on end ... Then I quit corn and I found out I had tons of other food intolerances and I was finally able to be healthy. It was an incredible change for me when I quit gluten and other foods I reacted to ... I felt SO MUCH better ... mentally, emotionally and physically. And tragic that I only found out about it at 43.

This is the food allegy Bible! by Brian

5 Stars
December 14, 2008
This is a fantastic book if you want to learn about food allergies, immediate and delayed. In fact, my only criticism of the book is that it might be a little too scientific for the average reader. Still, one can skip some of those sections if he or she isn't interested. The sections on creating a food elimination diet are outstanding, with extensive lists of trouble foods, related foods, and substitutes. I particularly like that the author doesn't hype the treatment of food allergies as a miracle cure for everybody's problems and doesn't pimp any specific blood tests. This is rational, unsensational advice. It's not a cookbook, though; you'll have to go elsewhere for that. I did an elimination diet after reading this and have so far found that I am allergic to milk and soy. By avoiding those allergens, I have easily lost 20 lbs (and 2 inches off my waist), I have much more energy, my mood is significantly better, my knees don't continually ache anymore, my food cravings and constant hunger are gone, and my bladder issues have resolved. In short, I feel better than I have ever felt. Although not everyone will see results like this, I think anyone with nagging health problems should give the elimination diet a try, as it can't hurt, and the only real cost is having to cook just about every meal for a few weeks, which I consider a trivial cost compared to the gains I have seen.

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