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Food as Medicine: How Can Food-Derived Compounds Help Fight Inflammations and Oxidative Stress in People With COVID-19?
During this challenging year, we have learned how to cope and change our day to day life during this global health crisis. COVID-19 has a socio-economic impact making us really vulnerable and unstable during this difficult time. Measures were taken to limit the spread...
How Do You Know If You Have A Yeast Allergy?
Overview of yeast allergy In the late 70s and early 80s, two American doctors floated the idea that allergy to Candida albicans was responsible for several symptoms. The symptoms identified by the physicians included: Psoriasis and hives Depression and anxiety...
Start a Yeast Free Diet in 5 Steps
A lot of people are interested in the idea of doing onto a detox diet from one “problem” food ingredient to another. If you’ve decided that a yeast free diet is going to be the best way to make you feel better — especially if you have intolerances or allergies — than...
5 Dairy Replacements for Managing a Dairy Allergy
When you find out that you or a loved one is no longer able to eat dairy, you know pretty quickly what you have to cut out. But what about substitutes to add in to help replace those dairy products? Are there options for everything? Will they taste good? While...
How Allergies Could Affect Your Summer
Summer is relaxation season—a time to enjoy. Students have left school. Families have planned for their vacations. We have longer days, with everyone wanting to spend a little more time outdoors. But then, the summer is also the time when severe allergies are at their...
Keep an Eye Out for These 6 Egg Allergy Symptoms
Allergies can be pretty scary, especially if you don’t know that you have them and then discover (the hard way) that you do. Since allergy tests are normally given as part of most childhood medical care, it’s not uncommon to find out through food-related problems that...
How likely am I to have food intolerances?
Although supermarkets and food manufacturers alike are investing heavily in the “free-from” foods market, a significant number of people are still not even really aware of the concept of food intolerances. Many people will experience symptoms of food intolerances and...
How Does a Hair Allergy Test Work?
Before you decide on an allergy test method that works best for you and your preferences, you need to see what’s out there. It only makes sense, right? If you’ve done research online, you’ve probably heard about a skin prick test and an oral test and maybe even a...
Natural Sugars vs. Artificial Sweeteners: Which Should You Be Using?
When you pour yourself a cup of tea in the morning, it’s not uncommon to add in a bit of cream and sugar. Have you ever stopped to think about the sugar that you’re using, though? More and more people are starting to get into the idea of sweeteners, especially because...
Which Supplement For Which Symptoms?
How often do you ask how someone is doing only for them to mention an ailment or condition that they’ve been struggling with for a while? Are you constantly struggling with brain fog? Can’t seem to get to sleep at night? Persistent headaches? There are a significant...
Food Allergy Testing Will Change Your Life
The vast majority of us don't think twice when going about our day-to-day business. We go through our routines largely unimpeded and able to make changes to it without much second thought or consideration. We're ready to react to changes in our day with relative...
Is This a Sugar Intolerance or Sugar Allergy?
Both intolerances and allergies can cause a lot of frustration when it comes to sorting out how to move your food-based life forward. One of the most common ones that can create a problem in day to day life is the discovery of sugar intolerance. Not only are...
What’s the Difference Between a Dairy Allergy Test and a Lactose Intolerance Test?
Dairy and lactose sound like the same thing, right? After all, one is in the other, so they must be the same problem as far as the body is concerned. The reality is that dairy and lactose are unique from each other, especially in how the body responds each. ...
Why Am I Always Bloated After Eating?
Do you regularly find yourself unbuttoning your jeans after meals? Or have you skipped straight to elasticated pants in an effort to stay comfortable while chowing down on your favorite meals? Are you changing the way you dress to cover up bloating whenever you eat...
Your New Years Diet Failed Again? Here’s Why.
You can set your watch by it. February. The scales are going back in the cupboard while you build up the willpower and forget the hardship sufficiently to go again. This will be about January next year. As you tucked into the salad straw that broke the camel's back,...
Why An Allergy Test Is Essential For Performance
Cardio. One word that strikes fear into the heart of some people and for others, likely in the minority, gets them excited. Running, jogging, swimming, cycling, rowing. There are so many types of cardio, all of which help shed fat and also build up heart health....
Understanding Non-Celiac Gluten Intolerance
Most of us have heard all about the horrors of gluten. For some it’s because gluten is bad for their health and they avoid it as much as possible. For others, it’s because they’ve got celiac disease, which is when the stomach starts to injure itself in an effort to...
How Do I Know If I’ve Got An Intolerance To Dairy?
Soya milk, almond milk, coconut milk, goat's milk. The market for milk for those with an intolerance to dairy is booming. These products spawn alternatives to other dairy products such as cheese and butter. To live with an intolerance to dairy is no longer to forego...